BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 8, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Healthnostics, Inc. (Pink Sheets:HNST), a medical and bioscience information analytics and patient care improvement company, today announced a link up with Reuters Health to create a locally archived database of Reuters Health news offering reprints and e-prints of Reuters Health professional news in conjunction with Reuters' archive distribution partner, Valeo IP.
Healthnostics will be using a recently announced proprietary search technology for content mining of the Reuters Health article database. This database and new search capability will be available to medical and bioscience professionals accessing an expanded and enhanced Healthnostics portal, www.MedBioWorld.com, currently the largest medical and bioscience directory on the Internet, either wired or wirelessly. Users will also be able to receive emails and alerts of breaking news direct to their computers, PDAs or cell phones based on tailored search criteria and timings.
"We are proud to be partnering with such a prestigious news organization as Reuters Health on this unique offering for our medical and bioscience user base," said Alan Grofe, president. "This will be the first of our developing analytical databases designed to provide actionable information for our MedBioWorld portal visitors and DataQual hospital patient monitoring system users."
The Healthnostics database will begin with nearly 8,000 Reuters Health news articles covering the clinical, business and political issues in health and medicine. The Reuters Health content incorporates breaking medical news, such as core scientific research developments and summaries of news from original peer-reviewed journals (including New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet and British Medical Journal) and annual scientific meetings and symposia.
"Reuters Health is pleased to offer this extension of our professional news database, with digital content management features, to Healthnostics strong base of medical and bioscience professional users through their MedBioWorld Website," commented Jeremy Snelling, Director of Reuters Health.
The intellectual property management technology for this database will be provided by Valeo IP, the leading digital licensing and reprint specialist for the publishing industry.
Reuters medical and healthcare news is provided by a dedicated global team of specialist journalists. Reuters has three specific news services for the health sector, Reuters Health eLine, Reuters Medical News and Reuters Health Industry Briefing. These can be licensed for use on websites or used as knowledge management tools on corporate Intranets and Extranets. For more information on Reuters health news services visit www.reutershealth.com
About Healthnostics
Healthnostics delivers comprehensive medical and bioscience news, journal research articles and directory listings to industry professionals through its MedBioWorld.com Internet portal, and general healthcare information to consumers through FamilyMedicalNet.com. The DataQual system from Healthnostics provides a suite of software tools for hospitals nationwide to monitor and improve patient care. The company's overall mission is to provide research, news, directories and software tools for strategic decision making and process improvement in medicine and bioscience.
For further information regarding the aforementioned companies and products, please visit; for Healthnostics www.healthnostics.com, www.medbioworld.com, and www.familymedicalnet.com; for Reuters Health www.reutershealth.com, and for Valeo IP www.valeoip.com.
This announcement may contain, in addition to historical information, certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements reflect management's current views and are based on certain assumptions. Actual results could differ materially from the assumptions currently anticipated.