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To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (2729)	5/17/1999 9:28:00 AM
From: Robert E. Winston	Respond to of 2911

Synetic to buy Medical Manager for $1.37 bln biz.yahoo.com ELMWOOD PARK, NJ & TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 1999-- Synetic, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNTC) and Medical Manager Corporation (NASDAQ:MMGR) today announced that the two companies have signed a definitive merger agreement providing for a strategic business combination between Synetic and Medical Manager, a leading provider of physician practice management systems, in a tax free pooling of interests transaction valued at approximately $1.4 billion. The merger creates an organization with the components needed to transform the information infrastructure of America's practicing physicians, with the goal of revolutionizing the way in which physicians can communicate electronically with payers, suppliers, providers and patients. Synetic, Inc. operates two principle lines of business, healthcare electronic commerce services through CareInsite, Inc., and plastics and filtration technologies through Porex Corporation. ------------------------------------------------------- Healtheon, WebMD in merger talks - WSJ biz.yahoo.com NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) - Internet firm Healtheon Corp. (Nasdaq:HLTH - news) and WebMD Inc. are in merger talks to create a dominant company in the business of managing medical data on the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing sources close to the companies.