WASHINGTON, April 14, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Healthnostics, Inc. (Pink Sheets:HNST), a medical and bioscience knowledge management company, announced Health News Explorer, a search engine that mines nearly 8,000 Reuters Health News articles on the Healthnostics portal, www.MedBioWorld.com. Health News Explorer uses, for the first time, exclusive keyword search, context search and term-suggest technology.
Health News Explorer users can purchase fee-based online e-prints and reprints of Reuters Health professional news articles through Healthnostics digital content management partner, Valeo IP.
The Reuters Health News database contains professional 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, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Lancet and British Medical Journal) and annual scientific meetings and symposia.
Healthnostics' News Explorer uses "Find Similar" context search technology to expand upon keyword searches, producing additional relevant news articles. The term-suggest technology follows users' text entries, suggesting search terms derived from the thousands of Reuters Health news articles.
"This first use of our exclusive keyword, context and suggest search technology to access the extensive database of Reuters Health news marks a technological milestone for us," said Alan Grofe, president. "And this will create an important revenue-producing service on our MedBioWorld site."
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 is a medical and bioscience knowledge management company. Through the MedBioWorld.com Internet portal, comprehensive medical and bioscience news, journal research articles, proprietary search technology and directory listings are provided to industry professionals. General healthcare information to consumers is provided through FamilyMedicalNet.com. The DataQual system from Healthnostics offers a suite of clinical knowledge management tools for hospitals to monitor and improve patient care.
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.