Asterion.com is a leading provider of Internet application service for the managed care market. Asterion.com bridges the gap between the future promise of a fully networked industry and existing healthcare systems. Through building Internet communities of physicians, insurers, patients, facilities and services, Asterion.com is able to create a coordinated approach to health care

Few industries have undergone such rapid change and transformation, as have those involved in our nation's healthcare. Davis Wright Tremaine's health law practice has responded to those changes and has earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading health law practices with an unparalleled depth and breadth of expertise in virtually every aspect of healthcare law - including e-commerce.

When the Internet changed the way the way healthcare goods and services are delivered, Davis Wright Tremaine's health law lawyers responded by forming an E-Health Law Practice Group. Whether you are a healthcare provider seeking to use Internet technology to enhance patient care, or an e-commerce healthcare company, our experienced team can provide you with practical, up-to-date legal advice essential for survival in this dynamic new economy. For more information contact us at www.ehealthlaw.com or at www.dwt.com. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, a full service law firm with over 360 attorneys, conducts a national health law practice, serving clients from all sectors of the nation's health system through 11 offices from Washington, D.C. to Honolulu, Hawaii.

drkoop.com (Nasdaq: KOOP) is a leading global healthcare network whose mission is to empower consumers with the information and resources they need to become active participants in the management of their own health. The drkoop.com Network is built from relationships with the Web sites, healthcare portals and traditional media outlets, and integrated dynamic, medically reviewed content, interactive communities and consumer-focused tools into a seamless source of trusted healthcare information. Its strategic alliance with Shared Medical Systems (SMS) makes drkoop.com a leader in promoting secure online interaction between patients, their physicians and local healthcare organizations. drkoop.com is the exclusive provider of health and related content on the GO Network and is the premier health content provider for ABCNEWS.com and five AOL brands, including the AOL Service.

ePocrates Inc. is the largest handheld network for physicians, with over 43,000 registered physician users (63,000 total users). ePocrates offers physicians the ability to access up-to-date, intuitive clinical information at the point of care using handheld devices that connect to the internet through the ePocrates server. ePocrates also works with pharmaceutical companies, PBMs, and other third parties to sponsor the ePocrates service for physicians. ePocrates provides these organizations with a powerful tool to effectively reach, influence and understand their target markets. Future products will include applications that streamline workflow and automate traditional paper based solutions, such as formulary management tools, electronic prescription writing and billing/charge capture capabilities. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, ePocrates was founded in 1998 by Jeff Tangney and Richard Fiedotin, MD.

First DataBank Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Hearst Corporation, is the world's only company to offer a comprehensive range of healthcare knowledge bases, including complete drug, medical, and nutrition information. Our products provide the drug and diagnostic decision support information and nutrition analysis needed by hospitals, eHealthcare businesses, pharmacies, managed care organizations, insurance companies, physicians, dietitians, and other healthcare professionals. National Drug Data File( (NDDF Plus), our core product, is one of the world's leading drug knowledge bases, providing comprehensive clinical, descriptive, and pricing information for every drug product approved by the FDA for use in the United States.

Healinx is the pioneer of online communication between patients and their own physicians. The Healinx system supports online consultations; prescriptions; appointment scheduling; referrals; automated health maintenance and education. Healinx reduces phone tag and prescription hassle, and improves patient wellness and compliance. Healinx follows the physician's workflow, supporting effective, secure clinical communications.

Healtheon/WebMD solves the communication needs of reference/hospital laboratories. Using secured Internet technology, Dx Lab Orders and Results easily connects you to your physicians without deploying hardware. Real-time eligibility and compliance checking, including ABNs, during order entry reduces billing problems. Reporting options include autoprinting, on-demand reports, cumulative, and graphs. Clinical Reports provides internet based reporting on all of your facilities' reports, including laboratory results, facesheets and transcribed reports.

HEALTHvision empowers Healthcare Organizations to use the Internet to address real business and clinical issues for their physicians, patients, consumers and employees. Our suite of solutions enable local healthcare organizations to deploy customized, branded e-health solutions that address critical health information associated with Consumer Market Share, Physician productivity, Patient Care and HCO Employee Workflow.

Heidrick & Struggles International (Nasdaq: HSII) is the world's leading search firm, specializing in chief executive, boar of directors and senior level management assignments. Today, over 832 Heidrick & Struggles professionals serve a broad range of organizations, including Forture 500 companies, financial institutions, major health care organizations, universities and not-for-profit organizations, leading mid-cap companies and emerging growth companies from offices in 69 locations throughout North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. For more information about Heidrick & Struggles, please visit our website at www.heidrick.com.

Hospitalhub.com, the premier healthcare community on the Web, is dedicated to meeting the diverse needs of the healthcare community. Resources include: daily industry news, weekly chats, ezines, discussion boards, resources for the healthcare professional, job seeker, consumer, and HR professional, and even jokes for the daily grind blues. The Hub features over hundreds of the nation's leading hospitals with the freshest job opportunities and many informative facility profiles. The Hub goes to great lengths to help expedite the job hunting and recruiting process by offering excellent resources and customer service. Whether you're looking for a job, a great candidate, information, colleagues, or a good laugh HospitalHub.com is the place to find it. "If it's healthcare related, we've got you covered".

Intel(Internet Authentication Services develops and manages authentication services for associations, organizations and Internet health sites that want to offer branded credentials to their users. Intel IAS enables remote credentials retrieval when users need access from a different computer, and performs maintenance to keep credentials current. Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.

As the national leader in hospitalist medicine, IPC has been at the forefront of the hospitalist movement since the Company was founded in 1995. Now, for the first time, IPC is making its market knowledge and technology infrastructure available to others through a newly created practice services and technology division called e-ipc. Medical groups, IPAs, PHOs, hospitals and health plans nationwide who are interested in developing or enhancing their own high quality hospitalist programs can now benefit from IPC's unparalleled experience. Moreover, these business partners can be assured that e-ipc's technology and services are rooted in real work environments and continue to be tested and refined daily within the laboratory of existing IPC practices.

LifeChart.com is an e-health service dedicated to helping individuals with many chronic conditions. Employing easy-to-use devices and screens, LifeChart.Com receives and stores user data, enabling online consultations with healthcare professionals that result in long-term improvement of quality of life.

Life Chart.com provides an interactive, low cost, location-independent means to communicate with their healthcare professionals via fax, Internet, mail and wireless technology. LifeChart.com is designed to encourage patient compliance and reduce reporting errors. This service is proved to reduce emergency room visits and hospital stays. Asthma and Diabetes applications are soon to be followed by Cardiovascular (hypertension), Weight Management and Wellness applications.

McKessonHBOC, Inc., a Fortune 400 corporation, is the world's largest pharmaceutical supply management and healthcare information technology company. McKessonHBOC provides a comprehensive suite of web-based applications that supports all the clinical processes of ambulatory clinics: lab order entry and results reporting, electronic prescribing within formulary guidelines, task management and medical record documentation. In addition, McKessonHBOC's online services include practice management; online claims and statement processing; electronic remittance advice; eligibility; materials and supply ordering; patient education; and services designed for other general financial management and communication.

Medibuy.com specializes in efficient Internet e-commerce solutions for the procurement of healthcare products. The company has pioneered an innovative web-based model that provided the medical community with the ability to more effectively buy and sell supplies and equipment. Medibuy.com operates as a global online marketplace that leverages cutting-edge Internet technology to transform the administrative infrastructure of the healthcare supply chain. The result is significant cost reduction, and streamlining of the procurement process for all types of healthcare buying, from multi-facility health systems, to hospitals, clinics and long-term care facilities.

MedicaLogic and the Providence Health Systems have a pilot project underway that allows patients to access their medical records and provide input. This remarkable program dovetails with a practice EMR program offered by the company.

MediVation has developed a powerful, Internet-based product site that enables healthcare providers to more efficiently and effectively share information with and provide access for their patients. A fully automated process generates a secured, personalized content and services area for each patient within the practice web site. Features include personalized per-visit instructions, recommended reading, appointment requests, prescription renewal requests, ask a question and more.

Medscape is primarily aimed at medical professionals. The site features the Web's largest collection of freely available, full-text peer-reviewed articles (over 30,000). Medscape also provides exclusive access to the world's largest Web-based drug and disease database; a powerful interface to MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, and TOXLINE; and thousands of other exclusive articles and interactive features such as an e-mail system and personalized Physician Web Sites. Medscape has more than 280,000 registered as physicians and over 860,000 registered as allied healthcare professionals. Total registered membership for Medscape is now 1.7 million.

MICROMEDIX knowledge bases are relied upon in over 9,000 facilities in 92 countries. A leader in the industry since 1974, MICROMEDIX provides in-depth, evidence based information on pharmacology, toxicology, emergency and acute care, patient education and alternative medicine. Based in Denver, Colorado, MICROMEDIX continues to shape the future of information systems by implementing innovative integrated technology strategies. MICROMEDIX is dedicated to delivering the most comprehensive clinical information enterprises wide using the most effective means available to ensure the smooth operation of our products within your facility. Our development staff is prepared to work closely with customers to explore strategies for providing the most effective, enterprise-wide information access.

Established in 1992, Omnicell.com enables healthcare organizations to gain control over their supply chains by providing Internet-based business-to-business e-commerce solutions powered by Commerce One's B2B technology, automated supply and pharmacy product dispensing at the point of use, automated decision support, and an online community for healthcare professionals. For more information, visit www.omnicell.com.

Passport Health Communications, Inc. provides Internet based products and services that transmit time-critical information for the healthcare industry. Passport has two distinct business segments and products, OneSource and HealthLeaders.com. Passport OneSource provides secure and confidential real time access to critical healthcare administrative data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and aggregates this data for the use of healthcare providers such as physicians and hospitals. The ability for providers to access a single source for a wide variety of health insurance and administrative data saves time and money while reducing costly errors and paperwork. Passport also operates an Internet web portal or virtual community, HealthLeaders.com that meets many of the informational and economic needs of healthcare administrative, clinical and operations personnel.

Scheduling.com is connecting healthcare today and tomorrow. We are an Application Service Provider (ASP) providing Access Management applications and services to the healthcare enterprise, healthcare organizations, providers, consumers and payers. Our suite of online application services includes Patient Scheduling and Registration, as well as Eligibility Verification; Medical Necessity, Referral and Authorization Verification; Credit Worthiness Checking; and Automatic Appointment Reminders. The combination of these functions rolled into an integrated service, all but assures that all the resources to deliver medical care are available at the time of an appointment and that healthcare providers get paid promptly. Scheduling.com makes healthcare accessible by connecting providers to healthcare organizations and consumers to providers, enabling services to flow smoothly.

The TriZetto (r) Group, Inc./healthweb.net is a leading provider of Internet-enabled application services and business portals for the healthcare industry. As an application services provider. TriZetto hosts and provides access to leading business and Internet applications. HealthWeb, its Internet portal, facilitates information exchange and e-commerce. TriZetto can be reached 949-719-2200 or www.trizetto.com.

V-ONE Corporation's Smart Gate is a client/server VPN technology that exceeds HIPAA standards for the secure communication of patient record information. Organizations such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Montana use Smart Gate because of its integrated authentication, encryption and access control features along with its patented client deployment and management capabilities.

WellMed is the leading provider of online tools that simplify the way people access and control information needed to improve and better manage their health. By personalizing the delivery of health information to users via the Internet, WellMed has a proven track record in helping customers reduce their health-related costs, while increasing participant's satisfaction. WellMed's health management system, the Personal Health Manager, serves as a central resource control panel for health. It includes advanced health management tools such as:

• WellQuotient - a set of health assessment of profiling tools for individuals and group; WellRecord(, a secure and confidential consumer health record;
• WellTIPs - tailored health improvement programs for individuals with specific health conditions or risk factors; and the Consumer Health Terminology Thesaurus (CHT Thesaurus(), WellMed's award-winning "translator" for medical and consumer health terms. Corporations, health care organizations and Internet Portals license the WellMed Personal Health Manager in order to best achieve company wellness goals. Whether it is building return visits to an Internet site, offering added benefits to employees or members, or targeting health programs to a specific population, the customizable WellMed system can be tailored to fulfill nearly any organization's needs. Currently, more than 30 organizations are deploying WellMed's Personal Health Manager.

Xcare.net is a leading provider of strategic eBusiness portals and business-to-business Internet designed specifically for the healthcare industry. The company builds mission-critical web sites and leverages its XML-based architecture and a proprietary set of search, filtering and integration technologies, in conjunction with the extensible Topic Mapping publishing standard to provide a mass-customized and personalized eBusiness environment. This is tailored to enhance the clients' personalized brand and to process high value transactions and mission critical applications. In addition to cost savings, XCare.net facilitates revenue-generating opportunities for healthcare organizations through its "Solution Exchange" of products and services.