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To: bob jordan who wrote (3950)	10/13/1998 4:05:00 PM
From: John Arnopp	Respond to of 4676

XL Vision Forms Company to Provide Security Solutions to Healthcare Industry Protecting Computerized Patient Information First Commercial Application SEBASTIAN, Fla., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- XL Vision, Inc., a Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE - news) and TL Ventures partnership company, today announced the formation of Integrated Visions, a solutions development and consulting firm that provides industry-specific identification and authentication products and services to monitor and control access to confidential electronic patient information. Initial development efforts are focused on delivering tailored security solutions for protecting clinical data and health information management systems. XL Vision has adopted a technology incubator business model through which it identifies and devises solutions to previously insolvable problems. XL Vision then conducts extensive market research to determine the commercial potential of resulting products and technologies and forms a company to bring them to market. Companies launched and spun out by XL Vision include XL Computing, ChromaVision, Inc. (Nasdaq: CVSN - news), eMERGE Vision Systems and Who? Vision Systems, Inc. Integrated Visions provides biometric security solutions based on Privacy Curtain(TM), an authentication and identification platform developed in partnership with the Mayo Clinic and distributed through best-in-class healthcare application software developers and value-added resellers. The company acquired the healthcare systems Division of The National Registry Inc. (NRI) and has assimilated NRI's product line and customer base. Integrated Visions is demonstrating Privacy Curtain publicly this week at the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group, Inc. (MS-HUG) Conference in Orlando, Fla. where it has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Industry Solutions Award for Healthcare in the Clinical/Patient Information Systems category. Notable current contracts are network and medical records access projects at the Mayo Clinics in Jacksonville, Fla. and Scottsdale, Ariz. and Scott and White Medical Center, a multi-specialty clinic affiliated with Texas A&M Medical School. About Safeguard Scientifics, TL Ventures Safeguard Scientifics, headquartered in Wayne, Penn., is a unique partnership of entrepreneurial companies focused on information technology markets. Safeguard provides its family of partnership companies with various developmental services that increase their value. Then, as appropriate, Safeguard shareholders are given the opportunity to participate in the initial public offering of these companies by utilizing rights to acquire shares at the offering price. For more information visit the Safeguard Scientifics web site at www.safeguard.com. TL Ventures manages over $540 million of private equity capital and focuses on information technology and biotechnology companies. TL Ventures is associated with Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., a strategic information systems company. For more information visit TL Ventures web site at www.TLVentures.com. XL Vision, based in Sebastian, Fla., invents, develops and perfects technologies that convert images to vital, actionable information, then forms independent businesses that commercialize its solutions. For more information visit the XL Vision web site at www.xlvision.com SOURCE: XL Vision, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------