FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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, 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.
www.YourOwnDoctor.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 www.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: http://www.YourOwnHealth.com,
http://www.YourOwnDoctor.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.
Company Contact:
OCG
Technology, Inc.
Jeffrey P. Nelson
Vice President, Investor Relations
Tel. (914) 576-8457, ext 21
jnelson@pcare.com |
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