I'm not an OCGT fan, but since no one posted this yet....
OCG Technology, Inc. and USATODAY.com Sign Agreement
Business Editors
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2000--OCG Technology, Inc. (OTC:BB "OCGT") announced today that it's wholly owned subsidiary, PrimeCare Systems, Inc., ("PSI"), has signed an agreement with USATODAY.com to promote its healthcare service Web site, YourOwnHealth.com, on USATODAY.com. Terms of the agreement were not released.
"YourOwnHealth.com represents a "sleeper" in online health content and interactivity", stated Jennifer Houghton, Director of Business Development for PrimeCare Systems, Inc. "This agreement with USATODAY.com will enable hundreds of thousands of individuals to become aware of YourOwnHealth and its highly valuable Medical History Questionnaires. It will also expand the use of YourOwnHealth's service in the health industry for which it was designed. As more and more people and physicians are exposed to the benefits of our interactive Medical History Questionnaires, YourOwnHealth will take its place among other highly acclaimed online health services. We are confident that this new relationship with USATODAY.com will benefit both YourOwnHealth.com and USATODAY.com. This agreement represents a first step in our new aggressive marketing and promotional campaign for YourOwnHealth.com."
"We are pleased to have YourOwnHealth.com promoting their interactive healthcare questionnaires on USATODAY.com," stated Jeffrey A. Webber, Senior Vice President and Publisher, USATODAY.com.
YourOwnHealth.com is a content provider that focuses on its unique interactive Medical History Questionnaires ("Questionnaires") and the reports generated by the health consumers' responses. YourOwnHealth enables health consumers to securely and anonymously select and complete detailed Questionnaires that relate to their medical problem. The responses to a questionnaire automatically generate a report, which contains a detailed problem history with diagnostic possibilities. Since the Questionnaires average over 20 pages, visitors to YourOwnHealth see more pages and spend more time on the Site than on other Sites. This "stickiness" is a very desirable feature, which makes our content appealing to advertisers, other healthcare Sites and portals. This "stickiness" will increase advertising revenues per "click through" making the Site more attractive to portals. Each page of YourOwnHealth has been designed with space for seven advertisements. Assuming that there are only 3 ads per page with a total advertising revenue of $2.60 per questionnaire, the annual advertising revenues derived from use of www.YourOwnHealth.com for each 50,000 completed patient Questionnaires per month would exceed $1,500,000.
OCGT/PSI has an extensive and specific commitment to healthcare software and informatics technology. They own, maintain, and operate Internet Web Sites yourownhealth.com, yourowndoctor.com, and a Web Site restricted to use by physicians primecareontheweb.com,all of which are based upon PSI's PrimeCareTM Patient Management System. PSI also created, operates and hosts deniseaustin.com. All of PrimeCare's products actively involve health and fitness consumers in their own healthcare and fitness. For more information, visit PrimeCare's corporate Web Site at pcare.com.
Serving almost 15 million unique visitors per month, USATODAY.com is the no. 1 newspaper site on the Internet and one of the leading general interest news sites. Using real-time coverage, USATODAY.com provides visitors with a world overview, updated 24 hours a day, seven days per week. USATODAY.com has more than 200,000 pages of breaking news, sports, money, life, weather and tech news. For further information, please visit www.usatoday.com.
"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 the Company as well as those risks and uncertainties detailed in the Company's Security and Exchange Commission filings.
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CONTACT: OCG Technology, Inc Jeffrey P. Nelson, Vice President, Investor Relations Tel. (212) 967-3079, Ext. 21 jnelson@ocgt.com OR PrimeCare Systems, Inc. Jennifer Houghton, Director Business Development Tel. (757) 593-0323, Ext. 409 jhoughton@pcare.com |