New Rochelle, N.Y. January 2 , 2001 - OCG Technology, Inc.
(OTC BB: "OCGT") announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary,
PrimeCare Systems, Inc. ("PSI"), has contracted with Hospital
Services, Inc., d/b/a
Advantage
Healthcare Net ("AHN") to integrate three of PSI's Web
sites (the "PSI sites"). The web sites, PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com, YourOwnDoctor.com.com, and YourOwnHealth.com,
will be linked into AHN's intranet for use by AHN's membership, consisting
of approximately 260 health care provider organizations and their
staffs, and including more than 2,500 physicians. AHN will market
to and encourage use of the PSI sites by their Member organizations.
AHN will also arrange training to be conducted by PSI personnel for
their Members.
Don Speare, Director of Marketing of AHN stated, "As a service
organization, we seek quality products that will benefit and aid our
Members. The PSI sites meet that criteria. Physicians are under ever
increasing pressure to see more patients and in some cases, a patient
every six to ten minutes. This makes it more difficult for physicians
to develop a patient's detailed history of present illness ("HPI").
Use of PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com will enable our Members' physicians to
obtain a detailed HPI, accompanied by a list of diagnostic possibilities,
derived from the patient's answering PCW's problem-specific questionnaires
via AHN's intranet. This is accomplished prior to the patient's coming
to the office, and without requiring any physician time. PCW also
creates significant other benefits for the physician. It eliminates
the need for and cost of dictation and transcription of the HPI, automatically
calculates HCFA's Evaluation & Management code for "Patient
History" and supporting data for the "Complexity of Decision
Making" for HCFA and other third party reimbursement, reduces
the risk of malpractice liability due to errors of omission, and will
be a source of added income for AHN Members from their use of the
PSI sites."
"AHN's recognition of the value and benefits of the PSI sites
is another step forward in our program to expand their application
and use. This arrangement makes our patient-interactive medical questionnaires
immediately available to all of AHN's approximately 260 Members and
their more than 2,500 physicians," stated Jeff Nelson, Vice President
of OCGT. "In addition to the many benefits provided to physicians
from their use of the PSI sites, we have agreed to give AHN's Members
a share of the advertising revenues generated from their use of the
PSI sites. This new marketing approach is designed to stimulate and
accelerate the use of the PSI sites."
AHN, a group purchasing organization covering North Dakota, South
Dakota, Minnesota and eastern Montana, is a Strategic Marketing Affiliate
of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain
Health Care, one of three shareholders of
AmeriNet,
the nation's largest membership-based healthcare group purchasing
organization. AmeriNet is located in all 50 states and has a combined
membership of 14,790 facilities. AHN's affiliation with IHC and AmeriNet
could lead to additional marketing relationships for the PSI sites.
AHN is a wholly owned subsidiary of the North Dakota Healthcare Association,
a nonprofit membership organization based in Bismarck, ND.
YourOwnDoctor.com.com ("YOD") will provide free individual
Web sites for each AHN Member and its physicians that enable them
to promote their services. YOD also provides a direct link to YourOwnHealth.com
("YOH"), a free health and wellness site for consumers that
enables them to securely and anonymously select and complete HPI Questionnaires
and to store the completed questionnaires in personal YourOwnHealth
Notebooks, a secure depository within the site for the storage of
personal and family medical data that can be accessed only through
registered IDs and passwords.
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 PrimeCare Patient Management
System: YourOwnHealth.com,
YourOwnDoctor.com.com,
and http://www.PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com. All of PSI's products actively
involve consumers in their own healthcare. For more information, visit
PrimeCare's corporate web site at http://www.pcare.com.
Safe Harbor Statement:
The statements that are not historical facts contained in this release
are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and
uncertainties that may individually or mutually impact the matters
herein described, including but not limited to product acceptance,
economic, competitive, governmental, results of litigation, technological
and/or other factors, which are outside the control of OCGT as well
as those risks and uncertainties detailed in the Company's Security
and Exchange Commission filings.