To: Dave Taylor who wrote (54756 ) 2/11/1999 12:55:00 PM From: songw Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 119973
Healtheon IPO 30s- Sympathy PILL 10s With 62M outstanding share HLTH market cap is $1.8B- PILL which is in identical business and further along has a market cap of $150M Healtheon HLTH healtheon.com enables the secure exchange of information among disparate healthcare information systems and supports a broad range of healthcare transactions, including enrollment, eligibility determination, referrals and authorizations, laboratory and diagnostic test ordering, clinical data retrieval and claims processing. ipocentral.com .HLTH was founded by Netscape pioneer Jim Clark; board members include Tom Jermoluk, CEO of ATHM - heavyweight underwriters Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Hambriq and Quist point to this one moving quickly once it opens. If HLTH jumps as expected one stock that may benefit by comparison is Proxymed PILLhttp://www.proxymed.com/. PILL, an extremely close fit to HLTH - is a healthcare information service company that provides on-line clinical and financial electronic data interchange (EDI) services to physicians, nursing homes, pharmacies, commercial and hospital laboratories, insurance companies and managed care organizations through its secure national healthcare informationnetwork, ProxyNet*. ™. PILL seems to have an early lead over HLTH- the company currently processes approximately 60 million clinical and financial healthcare transactions per year through ProxyNet(TM), its national healthcare information network, transmitted by over 50,000 physicians. In addition, approximately 400 million lab result reports are transmitted to over 125,000 result reporting devices in over 75,000 physician offices that were developed and interfaced to the lab information systems of over 1,800 labs by KeyCommunications Service, Inc.,a ProxyMed subsidiary acquired in December, 1998.http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990204/fl_proxyme_1.html PILL partners include Rite Aid, Walmart, Eckard Drug Stores,Smith Kline Beecham Labs among many others.prnewswire.com ^1836961 PILL trading near 10 - Worth watching