New Rochelle, N.Y. July 11, 2001 - OCG Technology, Inc. (OTC
BB: "OCGT") announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary,
PrimeCare Systems, Inc. ("PSI"), has entered into an agreement
with Physicians Alliance, Ltd.("PAL") to integrate three
of PSI's Web sites, PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com,
YourOwnDoctor.com,
and YourOwnHealth.com
(collectively the "PSI sites"), into PAL's planned intranet
for use by Pal's association of 14 clinics and their 48 physicians,
19 Physician Assistants, staff and patients.
Michael Warren, M..D., President of Physicians Alliance, Ltd. stated,
"Integration of the PSI sites into our intranet greatly expands
the services available to our patients. Use of PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com
by our physicians will enable them to maintain their high standard
of quality care more efficiently. PSI's interactive Questionnaires
provide our physicians with a comprehensive record of a patient's
history of present illness accompanied by a list of diagnostic possibilities,
without dictation and transcription costs. This saves our physicians
considerable time and expense while improving communications with
our patients."
"It is a pleasure to be associated with Physician Alliance,
Ltd. They are an association of medical practices that embrace the
latest technological developments to provide their patients the highest
level of care available. PAL's recognition of the value and benefits
of PSI's sites is another step forward in our program to expand their
application and use. This arrangement makes our patient-interactive
medical questionnaires available to all of PAL's clinics, physicians
and their patients," stated Jeff Nelson, Executive Vice President
of OCGT.
Physicians Alliance Ltd. is located in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania
area. PAL physicians have admission privileges at Lancaster Regional
Medical Center, Community Hospital, and Lancaster General Hospital.
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 System ("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:
the 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.
PrimeCareOnTheWeb (www.primecareontheweb.com) is restricted to use
by physicians and their patients. It enables physicians or their staffs
to select and have their patients securely complete, via the Internet,
one or more HPI Questionnaires related to the patient's symptoms or
problems. The patient's responses are immediately processed to generate
a report that includes all of the patient's positive and pertinent
negative responses along with a list of diagnostic considerations
with the patient's responses noted that support each consideration.
This report 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. Patient interview
reports completed through PrimeCareOnTheWeb can be automatically incorporated
into PSI's in-office PrimeCare System.
Your Own Doctor
(www.yourowndoctor.com) is a Web community that provides individual
web sites for registered physicians to promote the physician's practices
and services offered, and provide a quick and convenient point of
access for the physician's patients. Through www.YourOwnDoctor.com
("YOD"), PSI will provide free individual Web sites for
all PAL 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 YourOwnHealthTM Notebook,
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.
Your Own Health
(www.yourownhealth.com) is a consumer health and wellness web site
that includes current medical news, medically reviewed reference materials,
and more than 100 of PSI's most frequently used problem-specific medical
questionnaires. It also features a personal health Notebook where
consumers can securely store medical information about themselves.
A 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.