Medsite appear to be on a bit of an acquisition (people & property) hunt themselves..., two recent articles.
Medsite.com Acquires Creativeaspect, Inc.; Co-Founder Brian Shin to Join Medsite.com
Story Filed: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 5:30 PM EST
NEW YORK, Jun 15, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE via COMTEX) -- Medsite.com Inc., the leading eServices provider for the medical community, announced today that it will acquire CreativeAspect, Inc., a leading technology company, for an undisclosed sum.
As part of the acquisition, CreativeAspect, Inc. co-founder Brian Shin will join Medsite.com as General Manager of Technology.
CreativeAspect, founded in 1998 by Ashley King and Shin, provides powerful web based calendar, email and collaboration software and a membership of over 25,000 registered users.
"This acquisition is a key step in Medsite.com's goal of further enhancing the doctor-patient relationship using the Internet," said Sundeep Bhan, CEO and co-founder of Medsite.com. "Medsite.com focuses on the tangible needs of the physician and with the acquisition of CreativeAspect, we can offer additional value added services from Medsite.com network. These services include providing a secure email service (MedMail.com) with value added features like pager notification, and the most powerful medical community event and CME calendar on MedCalendar.com."
Shin will lead the technology team at Medsite.com. Previously, he worked at Allaire Corp., where he was a member of the team that built content management systems. He then went on to co-found a venture capital backed enterprise email management software startup called Cambridge Intelligence, with customers such as The Boston Globe, Tripod.com and SmartAge before he served as CIO of Creative Aspects, Inc.
About Medsite.com
Through a network of first-to-market medical-focused web site channels, Medsite.com serves an existing customer base of more than 300,000 medical professionals, including 200,000 physicians, with innovative online medical information, communication and commerce solutions. Medsite.com is the creator of MedBookStore.com, which features the largest selection of medical books, software and supplies for physicians on the Internet. More than 5,000 customers from over 60 countries around the world visit MedBookStore.com each day. Medsite.com's web enabled email service, MedMail.com, has more than 100, 000 registered medical professionals. The Medsite.com/ISI Journal Tracker is an exclusive service allowing physicians to receive email updates from over 2,500 medical journals as they are published.
Medsite.com is headquartered in Silicon Alley at 60 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003. The company's telephone number is (212) 253-6913; email can be directed to info@medsite.com. Additional information about Medsite.com and a description of the eServices they offer can be found at www.medsite.com.
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Medsite.com hires John Eastman as Executive Vice President and Publisher
Story Filed: Monday, June 14, 1999 5:38 PM EST
NEW YORK, Jun 14, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE via COMTEX) -- Medsite.com, Inc. ( www.medsite.com), the leading provider of eServices for the medical community, today announced the hiring of John Eastman as executive vice president and publisher. Eastman, formerly president of Teton Ventures, will lead the digital content offerings generated by and distributed through the Medsite.com hub.
"John Eastman is one of the true pioneers in ePublishing and a recognized leader in electronic product development," said Sundeep Bhan, co-Founder and CEO of Medsite.com. "He brings a respected and proven vision in the content arena to the Medsite senior management team and he has already contributed greatly to our success. In creating this position, Medsite is once again responding to our customer base who have, with increasing frequency, asked for digital solutions to their clinical information needs."
Eastman has 10 years of experience in the professional publishing industry, primarily in the field of electronic publishing, building one of the first clinical reference CD ROM titles in 1990. This technology was subsequently adopted by John Wiley & Son, Mosby, Inc., Merck, Inc., McGraw-Hill, Wolters Kluwer and the American Psychiatric Press, for their private label projects, many of which continue to lead their market segments in sales.
Over the past three years his work has included: advising pharmaceutical clients on technology and content licensing, introducing e.book technology to the professional publishing community, and most recently, serving as publisher for an interactive consumer health center for the retail pharmacy.
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