Medem and Verity Empower Physicians and Patients with Quick Access to Medical Information that Aids Diagnosis and Treatment
SUNNYVALE And SAN FRANCISCO, CA. - 2000-10-25 - Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTY), a leading provider of infrastructure software that powers enterprise and e-commerce portals as well as e-business applications, and Medem Inc., the secure patient-physician e-health network founded by the nation's leading medical specialty societies and the American Medical Association (AMA), today announced that Medem has implemented Verity's high-performance portal infrastructure technology, Verity K2 Toolkit, with advanced search, navigate and view capabilities, to provide physicians and patients access to a vast library of trusted medical information. Using Verity K2 Toolkit, Medem brings together an unprecedented amount of peer-reviewed medical content from many different sources and presents it to physicians and patients in a single, easily searchable collection.
"We have a huge library of documents from our medical society partners, and Verity technology enables us to make all this content available in a meaningful way," says H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr., MD, Chair of Medem's Board of Directors and Executive Vice President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. "Physicians and consumers can very rapidly find the information that matters to them. Before, the documents were scattered around the world in file cabinets, boxes, microfilm, and various online sites, and accessing one often meant calling the individual society and requesting a fax. Medem enables many kinds of medical societies to come together and consolidated their content in one place, and the Verity technology makes it accessible."
The Web has been making more and more information available online, but finding relevant information about a specific condition presents two problems. First, searches turn up too much information, and most of it useless. Sifting through search results for the few important nuggets takes too much time, which physicians simply don't have. Second, much of the information is suspect, and often has highly dubious origins. The Medem library contains only peer-reviewed documents that have passed the stringent qualification standards of respected medical societies.
"Physicians don't have time to read everything out there, and they know our content is from a trusted source," says Edward J. Fotsch, MD, Medem CEO. Medem also hosts Web sites for individual physicians, who select subsets of the medical-society content related to their particular specialties. Physicians don't have time to build their own sites or collect information, and the Medem library powered by Verity's technologies makes pre-screened content immediately available to them and their patients. Physicians can write their own content and augment it with Medem documents, and present everything as a single, seamless package to consumers. Patients with chronic conditions can keep up with the latest developments and know it is endorsed by their physician and the nation's leading medical societies.
Medem has an editorial team that uses the Verity K2 Toolkit to categorize each article with meta information that describes its content. Verity K2 Toolkit enables users to locate articles by looking at this header information to allow quicker and more precise search results. Currently, Medem's online library houses several thousand articles and patient education materials. Medem's editors add new titles to the database everyday, increasing the content available to physicians and patients.
The Medem site developers are pleased with the Verity technology, and give the site-builder tool and Verity APIs high marks. Verity's Java API is so efficient that they can build search functions in a mere six lines of Java code. Medem chose Verity because it was the fastest available knowledge retrieval technology and also provided the best development environment.
"By making such an unprecedented amount of fully screened medical information available, Medem is providing an invaluable service to physicians and their patients," says Anthony J. Bettencourt, president of Verity. "Access to high-quality, scientifically based information will improve patient care by helping physicians to streamline the management of their practices and better serve their patients' personalized needs. We are proud to contribute our expertise in portal infrastructure technology to Medem and help their members provide optimal health care."
About Verity K2 Toolkit
Verity K2 Toolkit allows brokered search across multiple servers and multiple CPUs to provide the most relevant search results from many information sources without sacrificing the speed or accuracy of the results displayed. As the number of users, queries, or amount of data increases, K2 applications can keep pace with increased demands by adding new CPUs or servers to the network without bringing down the application. Providing 24x7 fault-tolerant operations, the Verity K2 Toolkit isolates failures of individual nodes or servers from the rest of the system, ensuring that applications are available when they are needed.
The Verity K2 Toolkit also supports Active Server Pages/COM and Java™, allowing easy integration across a wide range of application servers and Java environments, including Microsoft IIS/Site Server, Weblogic, iPlanet, Websphere, Java Server Pages, and Apache with Jserv. With Industry-standard C language and Perl APIs, Verity's K2 Toolkit helps speed application deployment and gives corporate accounts added flexibility in application development, especially for e-commerce and business-to-business application solutions.
About Medem
Established in October 1999 by the nation's medical societies including the AMA, Medem's rapidly expanding network already consists of organizations whose membership include more than two-thirds of American physicians. Medem is building the premier secure patient-physician network featuring the trusted clinical content of America's leading medical societies and direct patient access to their own physician's Web site.
Medem was founded by the American Academy of Ophthalmology; the American Academy of Pediatrics; the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; the American Medical Association; the American Psychiatric Association; and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Among the newest societies to join the Medem network are the American Association of Neurological Surgeons; the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine; the American College of Preventive Medicine; MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society; Michigan State Medical Society; Mississippi State Medical Association; New Hampshire Medical Society; the State Medical Society of Wisconsin; and Vermont Medical Society.
For more information visit the company's Web site at www.medem.com.
About Verity
Verity is a leader in infrastructure software that powers corporate portals used for sharing information within an enterprise, e-commerce portals for online selling and market exchange portals for B2B activities. Business portals provide personalized information to employees, partners, customers and suppliers.
Verity products are used by 48 of the Fortune 100 and by more than 1,000 corporations worldwide. The markets Verity serves are comprised of e-commerce merchants, e-businesses, market exchanges, government agencies, online service providers, Internet publishers and software developers. Verity customers include Adobe Systems, American Greetings, AT&T, BroadVision, CDNOW, Chapters, Cisco, CNET, Compaq, Dow Jones, Edgar Online, Ernst & Young, Fairmarket, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, Home Depot, IBM, Lotus, NewsEdge Corporation, SAP, Siemens, Snap.com, Sybase, Time New Media and Timex.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Verity and the expected performance of its products and technologies. Actual results are subject to risks and uncertainties, including the risks that the implementation of Verity's products will be delayed due to unforeseen technical difficulties and the ability of products to meet customers' needs or perform as described. Risks relating to Verity and its products are set forth in its Form 10-K and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For more information, contact Verity at info@verity.com or at World Wide Web site http://www.verity.com or call 408-541-1500.
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