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U.S. News & World
Report Selects Healthline to Provide Intelligent Health Services
for Its "Best Health" Site
Other Topics: Clinical
Content Development, Clinical
Data Software
Healthline Networks
November 14, 2006
Comprehensive Content, Technology and Marketing Agreement
Adds Healthline's Advanced Search and Navigation Capabilities to
Publication's Award-Winning Health Portal
San Francisco, CA -- Healthline Networks (www.healthline.com),
the leading provider of intelligent health information services,
today announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement
with U.S. News & World Report for Healthline to power the health
category on the U.S. News Best Health portal. The multiyear
agreement calls for U.S. News & World Report to integrate
Healthline's full suite of medically guided search, navigation
and content services on the magazine's Web site, and gives
Healthline rights to numerous U.S. News site resources. This
unique partnership will significantly enhance the consumer
experience on the U.S. News health portal, and will enable
Healthline to create special content areas on its site and
augment its proprietary Trust Marks search results
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Beginning in
first quarter 2007, consumers who visit the U.S. News Best
Health site will benefit from search results, navigation tools
and content presentation powered by Healthline's Medically
Guided Search(SM) platform. Healthline's suite of services are
built on the company's proprietary semantic taxonomy -- the
largest, multilayered consumer medical database of its kind,
created and maintained by a team of medical informatics
professionals. The agreement will also provide visitors to
Healthline.com with access to select health information from
U.S. News, including its health news feed and its exclusive
rankings on health plans and hospitals.
"As a leading news publisher, U.S. News & World Report has long
understood the growing importance of providing our visitors with
the ability to search and discover a wide range of health and
medical information," said Bill Holiber, president, U.S. News &
World Report. "Our collaboration with Healthline will allow our
visitors to explore our Best Health content using organization
and navigation resources developed by medical professionals.
Best Health is a site that has successfully elevated itself as a
leading resource for a range of health information, from health
plan rankings to breaking health news."
Healthline Networks' suite of intelligent health information
services includes search, navigation and content components that
address consumers' most significant healthcare need today:
access to contextually relevant, quality information supported
by intuitive navigation tools that guide them to more informed
decisions. Healthline's partners can implement these services
either separately or as an integrated suite. The company's
unique Medically Guided Search experience combines the world's
largest consumer medical taxonomy, developed by more than 1,100
physicians and informatics specialists, with advanced search and
navigation technology and licensed content, including
physician-reviewed journal articles and medical encyclopedias
from the world's foremost medical information publishers.
"This partnership is the best example to date of a customer
taking advantage of Healthline's full menu of services to
provide its site users with the most feature-rich, comprehensive
health search available anywhere," said West Shell III, chairman
and chief executive officer, Healthline Networks. "It clearly
demonstrates the power of our semantic taxonomy across two
leading resources for health seekers. At the same time,
Healthline is thrilled to have access to the authoritative and
insightful U.S. News health news and ratings content that has
received so much critical acclaim. We are excited to help build
a 'best of class' health portal and further Mort Zuckerman's
vision of giving consumers direct access to the best health
information available."
About U.S. News & World Report
Founded in 1933, the weekly national news magazine U.S. News &
World Report is devoted to investigative journalism and
reporting and to analyzing national and international affairs,
politics, business, health, science, technology and social
trends. Through its annual rankings of America's Best Colleges,
Best Graduate Schools, America's Best Hospitals and America's
Best Health Plans, as well as its News You Can Use® brand, U.S.
News has earned a reputation as the leading provider of service
news and information that improves the quality of life of its
readers. Available online at www.usnews.com, the U.S. News Web
site extends that brand promise and delivers the best, most
accurate information on the Web, organized in a way that is
accessible and easy to use.
About Healthline
Healthline Networks offers an innovative approach to meeting the
needs of today's health information seeker. The company's unique
consumer healthcare taxonomy, created in 1999 in collaboration
with 1,100 medical specialists, powers a suite of intelligent
health search, navigation and content services. Combining
advanced search technology with deep medical expertise,
Healthline and its business partners -- a network of trusted
destination sites that include publishers, portals, search
engines, employers and health plans -- help consumers navigate
the complex world of healthcare information, empowering them to
make more confident, informed decisions. Headquartered in San
Francisco, Healthline is backed by VantagePoint Venture
Partners, Reed Elsevier Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and JHK
Investments, LLC.
Editorial Contacts:
Jon Siegal
Shannon Murphy
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
781-684-0770 or 415-512-0770 |
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