New York, N.Y. June 25, 2001 OCG Technology, Inc.
(OTC BB: "OCGT") announced today that it has entered into
an agreement with Millennium Healthcare Concepts, LLC. ("Millennium"),
a Baltimore based, healthcare management company. Under the terms
of the agreement, Millennium will promote use by its 3,000 plus nationally
dispersed healthcare provider clients of PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com,
YourOwnDoctor.com,
and YourOwnHealth.com,
products of OCGT's wholly owned subsidiary, PrimeCare Systems, Inc.
("PSI").
"We are very pleased to be working with Millennium Healthcare
Concepts. They are a highly regarded organization specializing in
population health management with a focus on primary prevention, wellness
and chronic disease management," stated Jeff Nelson, Executive
Vice President of OCGT. "This agreement will make our healthcare
software readily available, via the Internet, to Millennium's healthcare
providers, clients, and their patients. Use of PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com,
YourOwnDoctor.com
and YourOwnHealth.com
enables physicians to provide high quality care for patients, while
cutting administrative waste and reducing costs."
Clarence Smith, Jr., M.D., President of Millennium Healthcare Concepts,
L.L.C. stated, "Use of
PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com, YourOwnDoctor.com
and YourOwnHealth.com
for our varied client base will be received as value added tools to
better integrate relevant clinical information into a useable format,
ultimately creating improved effectiveness and appropriate encounter
generation in the physicians' practices. This will also allow the
more consumer-oriented patients to benefit from comprehensive, individualized
information using state of the art technology and the Internet."
OCGT and PSI have an extensive commitment to healthcare software and
informatics technology. They own, maintain, and operate several Internet
Web sites that use various sections of PSI's PrimeCareTM Patient Management
("PrimeCare System"), an in-office client-server based, user
friendly, unique patient-physician interactive system that creates an
electronic medical record documenting the entire patient-physician encounter:
patient's history of present illness ("HPI"), physical findings,
assessment, tests, treatment plan and medications prescribed, and provides
physician reference and patient education materials. The PrimeCare System
contains an authoritative and comprehensive knowledge database of approximately
285 symptom and problem oriented patient HPI Questionnaires. Patients
are seated at a computer and answer complaint-specific HPI questions
by using just the number keys to indicate answers that apply to them;
no typing or computer skills are required. To date the Company has migrated
the HPI Questionnaires and other sections of the PrimeCare System to
its Internet Products. The Company continues to migrate the entire PrimeCare
System to the Internet. The Company plans to implement connectivity
with hand held and wireless devices where appropriate and technically feasible.
www.PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com
is restricted to use by physicians and their patients. It enables
physicians or their staff to select and have their patients securely
complete, via the Internet, one or more of HPI Questionnaires related
to patient symptoms or problems. The patient's responses are immediately
processed to generate a Report that includes all of the patient's
yes and pertinent negative responses and a list of the diagnostic
considerations with the responses repeated 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
via the Internet and initial treatment planning, all without requiring
the patient to travel to the doctor's office.
www.YourOwnDoctor.com
is a Web community that provides individual web sites for registered
physicians to promote the practices, services offered and other demographics,
and www.YourOwnHealth.com,
a consumer health and wellness web site that includes more than 100
of the medical Questionnaires and a personal health Notebook where
consumers can securely store medical information about themselves.
Millennium Healthcare Concept's principals, Dr. Clarence Smith and
Karen Sorensen, MHSA, approach the development and integration of successful
programs from both the clinical and business perspectives. They have
years of experience in healthcare management in a variety of environments
including health systems, physician groups, managed care and disease
management entities.
OCGT and PSI also created, operate and host http://www.DeniseAustin.com,
an exercise and fitness Web site. All of OCGT's products actively
involve consumers in their own healthcare and fitness. For more information,
visit PrimeCare's corporate website at http://www.pcare.com
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.