300,000 Medical Professionals Choose Skyscape for Access to Integrated Information at the Point-of-Care

Business Wire,  June 8, 2004  

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HUDSON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2004

Leader in Mobile Medical Solutions Now Offers Hundreds of Titles for Both Palm and Pocket PC PDAs and New, Free ARTbeat Channels

Skyscape(R), Inc. (www.skyscape.com), a leading provider of enterprise-wide mobile medical and nursing reference solutions, today announced that over 300,000 medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, physician assistants, residents and medical students, are registered users of Skyscape-powered software. This is an increase of 300 percent in less than two years, making Skyscape software the fastest growing among the top medical reference providers.

Additionally, Skyscape now offers more than 200 titles for the PDA for both Palm and Pocket PC devices. These include clinical references, drug guides, dictionaries, drug interaction guides and calculators across 35 medical specialties, such as oncology, cardiology, internal medicine, pediatrics, EMT/paramedic, psychiatry and nursing. No other company offers this breadth and depth of references to meet medical professionals' information needs. Unlike other PDA offerings which simply provide static content on the handheld, all Skyscape-powered references dynamically smARTlink(TM) (link together in context to provide fast, easy cross referencing between titles) with each other, as well as the content from ARTbeat(TM), Skyscape's intelligent mobile platform. This patented technology provides medical professionals with immediate access to accurate information in context, at the point-of-care.

"The growth of Skyscape's customer base shows that medical professionals, including physicians, nurses and first responders, clearly want trusted, integrated references, and Skyscape is the only provider who can meet those needs," said Sandeep Shah, CEO of Skyscape. "With the addition of a significant number of new titles over the past few months, as well as the Constellation suites--all-in-one solutions for specialists, customers of all kinds have a large selection of products from which to choose. Add in the ARTbeat channels, and clinicians have easy access to the best, most accurate information from numerous sources at the point-of-care."

Moving Forward: A New Pulse on Chronic Disease Prevention

In addition to its historic milestones, Skyscape today introduced a new, free ARTbeat up-to-the-minute handheld reference channel. Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal established to provide a forum for public health researchers and practitioners to share study results and practical experience. It is published by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, one of eight centers within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

PCD addresses the interface between applied prevention research and public health practice in chronic disease prevention. It focuses on providing information on how to best prevent diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes and stroke, which are among the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. PCD aims to promote dialogue between researchers and practitioners on research findings and practical experience, and explores new theories and concepts in the field of chronic disease. This valuable information can now be quickly disseminated to the handhelds of the medical community via ARTbeat.

ARTbeat is Skyscape's free intelligent mobile platform that provides medical practitioners with dynamic and continuously updated content that integrates with gold-standard medical references to enable practitioners to operate at the highest levels of expertise. In addition to the new, free PCD channel, Skyscape offers a selection of free and paid channels, including CDC Spotlights, MedWatch and Connections. All ARTbeat channels integrate with Skyscape-powered references via Skyscape's patented smARTlink capability.

"Skyscape products, especially ARTbeat, are very useful in my clinical practice. I don't know how I managed without them," states Dr. Leah Cleveland, diabetes specialist and certified diabetic educator, Azusa Pacific University.

About Skyscape

Skyscape is the leading provider of interactive, intelligent mobile solutions for healthcare enterprises and individual practitioners. Unlike other products on the market, Skyscape provides full, seamless integration for more than 200 of the most respected medical references, from more than 30 major medical publishers, for 35 medical specialties, via its patented smARTlink technology. Skyscape's mobile platform enables the enterprise-wide deployment of the industry's most extensive portfolio of handheld medical and nursing reference information to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare decision making at the point-of-care. Skyscape utilizes its patented ART (Advanced Reference and Transaction) infrastructure technology to create compelling high-value solutions for handheld devices that reflect and support the intuitive thought processes of the medical practitioner. Skyscape has the largest installed base of paying customers in the industry, including individual and communities of medical practitioners at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Stanford Medical School, Partners Health System, Duke University, Mayo Clinic, SUNY and Kaiser Permanente. Skyscape's solutions are available on multiple platforms, including Palm OS(R), Windows(R) CE and Pocket PC. For more information about Skyscape, please visit our Website at www.skyscape.com.