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To: David Andersen who wrote (20853)	2/22/1999 2:15:00 PM
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(COMTEX) B: Data General Brings Healthcare Organizations to the Web W B: Data General Brings Healthcare Organizations to the Web With the Harmonie Group's WebKit for Healthcare ATLANTA (Feb. 22) BW HEALTHWIRE -Feb. 22, 1999-- The Harmonie Group's Sophisticated Web Authoring Tool Kit for Building Web Sites and Intranets Extends Data General's Family of Enterprise Solutions for Healthcare Healthcare organizations will now be able to build and maintain Web sites and intranets more easily and bridge the information gap with its patients and providers, thanks to an agreement signed by Data General Corp. and Harmonie Group, Inc. Data General continues to bolster and expand its solutions for the healthcare industry with the addition of the Harmonie WebKit(TM) for Health Care. The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care is a platform-independent WorldWide Web-based authoring and content management system that enables all members of a healthcare organization to contribute to web content development regardless of prior computer experience. The content that is generated for the Web site or intranet can then be stored on Data General's AViiON enterprise servers or CLARiiON advanced storage solutions. With this new World Wide Web capability, healthcare organizations will be able to provide consumers with more information to manage their health, such as general information on the facility, patient/customer services, listing of physicians, news updates, hosting of events, research groups, training programs, useful links to other Web sites, frequently asked questions, and policies and procedures. Data General and Harmonie Group will debut this collaborative solution for the first time at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society '99 (HIMSS) show taking place February 21 - 25 at the Georgia World Congress Center. "The Harmonie WebKit helped us streamline our Internet/Intranet development. The process has been smooth and quick and we now offer wider distribution and more in-depth medical information to both the community and the hospital staff," states Diane Keogh, chief information officer for Newton Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts. "One of the most exciting features is the ability to create a search engine on our Intranet so that hospital employees can quickly access a specific hospital policy and procedure." "Healthcare is a local issue and all health systems should put themselves in a position to broadcast their services to their local consumers, patients and physicians - our relationship with Harmonie Group helps us to achieve this goal," said Peter Stone, vice president of product planning for Data General. "We feel that the largest untapped asset of any health system is the patient. The more we can educate the patient, the more we can drive down the costs of healthcare and influence outcomes." "Establishing and maintaining a Web site containing all of your health care enterprise's information is a daunting challenge. The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care provides an efficient mechanism for acquiring, organizing, maintaining, and presenting information. Content management is facilitated by the responsible content providers without requiring them to know how to create a Web page" states Dr. Jonathan Schaffer, President and CEO of Harmonie Group. "Our approach incorporates databases for storing content; a set of web-based forms, accessed through a browser, for structured content entry; and a mechanism for generating Web pages on demand from the database according to pre-defined templates." Benefits of The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care Offered by Data General Data General's solutions combined with the Harmonie WebKit's content-specific form tools distribute the responsibility for content development and maintenance throughout the enterprise, while providing a number of editorial safeguards to ensure the quality and appropriateness of the information. The structured entry of the information does not require any prior knowledge of HTML coding. The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care will allow healthcare organizations to: -- Establish a professional, comprehensive presence for a healthcare organization on the World Wide Web or an intranet -- Market a healthcare organization's enterprise to consumers and referring physicians -- Publish important information in real time for patients and providers -- Improve customer service -- Reduce operational costs by facilitating the acquisition, processing and transfer of information -- Extend the life of legacy applications and systems via the World Wide Web The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care provides access to information sources through the World Wide Web using common browsers. Intranet and/or Internet access can be provided depending on target audiences or the security requirements of the content. Different levels of security and access protection can be provided for specific resources depending on the nature and sensitivity of the content. The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care incorporates databases for storing Web content, a web-based authoring system for structured content entry, and a mechanism for dynamically generating web pages. The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care includes modules for the Authoring/Editing System, Clinical Services Directories, Clinical Provider Locators, Calendar and Event Management, and Education and Reference. Data General Showcases Enterprise Solutions at HIMSS '99 Data General's Healthcare division will combine its leading server and storage technologies with strategic applications from the industry's major healthcare software providers at the HIMSS '99 show, which runs from February 21-25 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. Data General has been a leading provider of healthcare solutions for the past 20 years. Its systems are used by more than 1,200 hospitals worldwide. Data General will demonstrate solutions designed specifically for the healthcare industry, including Internet/intranet, point-of-care, decision support, imaging and data warehousing. Pricing and Availability The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care is currently available through Data General's Healthcare Division. The Harmonie WebKit is $85,000 per license and implementation costs vary per organization. For more information please contact 1-800-DATAGEN or visit the Data General Web site at www.dg.com. About The Harmonie Group The Harmonie Group specializes in component-based modular solutions and integrated strategies for the healthcare enterprise. The Harmonie Group is the technology transfer affiliate of the Decision Systems Group of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Partners Healthcare and Harvard Medical School. For more information, please contact Julie McKay at 617-732-9300 or visit the Harmonie Group web site at www.harmonie.com. AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks of Data General Corporation. All other brand names and product names referred to in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. -0- gk/bos* CONTACT: Data General Corp. Jim Dunlap 508/898-6546 jim_dunlap@dg.com or Brodeur Porter Novelli Meghan LaTour 617/587-2841 mlatour@brodeur.com or Harmonie Group, Inc. Julie McKay 617-732-9300 jmckay@harmonie.com