Hackensack University Medical Center to use OCG
Technology's PrimeCare on the Web, Your Own Doctor and
Your Own Health Web Sites
New York, N.Y. August 14, 2000 - OCG Technology, Inc. (OTC
BB: "OCGT") announced today that it has entered into an
agreement with Hackensack University Medical Center, an affiliate
of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/New Jersey
Medical School and member of the University Health System of New Jersey.
Under the terms of the agreement, OCGT's wholly owned subsidiary,
PrimeCare Systems,
Inc. ("PSI") will integrate three of it's Web sites,
PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com, YourOwnDoctor.com,
and YourOwnHealth.com,
into the Medical Center's Web sites for use by the Medical Center's
network of physicians and their patients. The Medical Center will
schedule training seminars for physicians and their staffs which will
be conducted by PSI's personnel.
"We are very pleased to be working with Hackensack University
Medical Center, a highly regarded nationally known medical facility
with a reputation for being on the cutting edge of medical and information
technology," stated Jeff Nelson, Executive Vice President of
OCGT. "This agreement will make our healthcare software readily
available, via the Internet, to the Medical Center's more than 1,000
healthcare providers and their patients through the integration of
YourOwnDoctor.com
into the Medical Center's Web site for physicians, which will provide
the physicians access to both PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com and YourOwnHealth.com.
YourOwnDoctor.com
is a Web Community that hosts individual Web sites for physicians
enabling them to promote their services on their own Web sites. Use
of these sites enable physicians to provide high quality care for
patients, while cutting administrative waste and reducing costs".
Peter DeMauro, M.D., President of North Jersey Medical Management
Services, L.L.C. stated, "Integration of the PSI sites into our
Web site greatly expands the services available to our physicians
through our ISP. Use of PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com
and YourOwnHealth.com
by physicians will enable them to maintain their high standard of
quality care more efficiently through the use of state of the art
information technology. PSI's interactive Questionnaires and Reports
provide the physician with a comprehensive history of a patient's
medical problem accompanied by a list of diagnostic possibilities.
The record is created without dictation and transcription costs. This
saves the physician considerable time and expense. We believe our
physicians will recognize the healthcare benefits and cost efficiencies
that PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com
and YourOwnHealth.com
bring to the physician/patient relationship."
PrimeCare's patient interactive medical history Questionnaires permit
healthcare providers to select and have their patients securely complete,
via the Internet, one or more of approximately 275 medical Questionnaires
related to patient symptoms or problems. The patient's responses are
immediately processed to generate a Report that includes a list of
the diagnostic considerations together with the responses that support
each consideration. This creates a comprehensive history of the patient's
current medical problem for the physician. The Report can be used
for remote triage and initial treatment planning, all without requiring
the patient to travel to the doctor's office.
Hackensack University Medical Center, the largest provider of inpatient
and outpatient services in the state of New Jersey, is a teaching
hospital affiliated with the University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey/ New Jersey Medical School and is a member of the University
Health System of New Jersey. The medical center has been honored since
1995 as the first hospital in New Jersey to receive the Magnet Award
for nursing excellence from The American Nurses Credentialing Center,
and the second hospital in the nation to receive a four-year redesignation
of this award. The medical center is also the recipient of the Consumer
Choice Award in Bergen and Passaic counties for four consecutive years.
Based on a survey of 400,000 people to determine the best hospitals
in the country, the Medical Center was named as the hospital of choice
for quality of staff, community programs, personalized care, and overall
reputation.
OCGT and PSI have an extensive commitment to healthcare software
and informatics technology. They own, maintain, and operate several
Internet Web sites based upon PSI's PrimeCareTM Patient Management
System: http://www.YourOwnHealth.com,
http://www.YourOwnDoctor.com,
and a Web site restricted to use by physicians,
http://www.PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com. PSI also created, operates
and hosts http://www.DeniseAustin.com,
an exercise and fitness Web site. All of PSI's products actively involve
consumers in their own healthcare and fitness. For more information,
visit PrimeCare's corporate web site at
http://www.pcare.com.
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