FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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.
YourOwnDoctor.com (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.
YourOwnHealth.com (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.
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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