drkoop.com and FHC Internet Services Sign Multi-Year Strategic Alliance
/FROM PR NEWSWIRE DALLAS 888-776-3971/
TO BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICAL EDITORS:
drkoop.com and FHC Internet Services Sign Multi-Year Strategic Alliance
FHC to be Exclusive E-Commerce and Services Provider for drkoop.com Mental
Health Center
AUSTIN, Texas and FALLS CHURCH, Va., June 14 /PRNewswire/ -- drkoop.com
(Nasdaq: KOOP), a leading Internet healthcare network, and FHC Internet
Services, LC, an affiliate of FHC Health Systems, a leading mental health and
human services company, today announced a multi-year strategic alliance. The
long-term agreement names FHC as the exclusive partner for all services and
e-commerce-related activities within drkoop.com's Mental Health Center.
The agreement will provide visitors to drkoop.com's Mental Health Center
access to the well-respected services of FHC, widely recognized as the
nation's foremost creator of innovative access to quality mental health
information and services. The agreement will also provide visitors with
e-commerce opportunities provided by FHC including subscriptions, books, tapes
and an array of mental health and work life services.
"We are very excited about our venture with drkoop.com," said Ronald I.
Dozoretz, M.D., chairman, CEO and founder of FHC Health Systems. "This
alliance allows us to provide improved access to quality mental health
commerce and services. This is the next frontier of behavioral healthcare
delivery and with Dr. C. Everett Koop, we know it will be done with quality."
"We are very pleased to have FHC as our exclusive strategic ally for
mental health," said Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General and
chairman of drkoop.com. "It is imperative that we provide trusted mental
health services for all those who visit our Web site expecting to receive the
most accurate and timely information. This alliance will provide that
opportunity. The reputation of Chairman Dr. Dozoretz and FHC as the nation's
premier behavioral services company, allows us to provide meaningful services
and access to e-commerce opportunities that will help visitors make educated
decisions regarding mental health."
Launch of the newly designed drkoop.com/FHC Mental Health Center is
expected to take place this summer at www.drkoop.com.
About FHC Internet Services, LC
FHC Internet Services, LC is an affiliate of FHC Health Systems which is a
nationally recognized company which provides a wide range of mental health and
work life services. Founded in 1982 by Dr. Dozoretz, the company now includes
ValueOptions, Inc., a managed behavioral healthcare organization managing in
excess of 23,000,000 lives, Alternative Behavioral Services, which provides
community based mental health services for children and adolescents, Rx
Innovations, a prescription management company and other companies related to
mental health and life services.
About www.drkoop.com
The award-winning drkoop.com offers reference sources for consumers
through dedicated channels focused on such topics as Children, Women, Men and
Aging Healthy. The network also covers more than 50 disease protocols and
over 1700 health and wellness topics with content from a variety of
distinguished healthcare sources. The Personal Drugstore(TM) feature delivers
to consumers an extensive online drug interaction tool and provides access to
a prescription refill system. The drkoop.com Web site maintains more than 130
Interactive Community support groups and message boards. Consumers worldwide
can empower themselves to make better healthcare decisions by visiting
drkoop.com.
drkoop.com, Inc.
The company operates www.drkoop.com, a leading Internet-based consumer
healthcare network. The Network consists of a consumer-focused interactive
Web site that provides users with comprehensive healthcare information and
services, as well as affiliate relationships with portals, other Web sites,
healthcare organizations and traditional media outlets. The drkoop.com
Network is an Internet healthcare initiative that integrates dynamic
healthcare content on a wide variety of subjects, interactive communities and
tools as well as opportunities to purchase healthcare-related products and
services online. drkoop.com is the exclusive provider of health and related
content on three Web sites of the GO Network: GO Health Center, ESPN.com
Training Room and the Family.com Health Channel. drkoop.com is also the
premier health content provider for GO's ABCNEWS.com. Additional information
on drkoop.com can be found at drkoop.com.
This news release includes forward-looking statements that are based on
current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties. drkoop.com cannot
guarantee that actual future events will not vary materially from those
described in this release. Specifically, the actual deployment of the new Web
site features described above is subject to revision due to technical and
other factors and this new feature may not be accepted by consumers. For a
further discussion of the business risks faced by drkoop.com, please see the
section captioned "Risk Factors" in our Registration Statement on Form S-1
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. drkoop.com undertakes no
obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements in this release.
SOURCE drkoop.com, Inc.
/CONTACT: Stephanie Fulton of drkoop.com, Inc., 888-795-0998, or
email,sfulton@drkoop.com; or Howard Glassroth of FHC Health Systems,
703-205-6767/
/Web site: drkoop.com
Jun-14-1999 14:20 GMT
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