Consumer-Driven Health Care WEBCAST Presented by Employee Benefit News and BenefitNews.com, Developed in Association with Acadient, Inc.

Employee Benefit News, the leading publication for benefits professionals, has taken the hottest trend in employee health benefits and packaged it in one cool webcast for convenient online learning, 24/7.

NEW YORK-January 13, 2003-Employee Benefit News, the leading publication for benefits professionals, has taken the hottest trend in employee health benefits and packaged it in one cool webcast for convenient online learning, 24/7.

The webcast, "Consumer-Driven Health Care: Starting Down the Road," contains audiovisual presentations from EBN's sell-out seminar series on consumer-driven health, which was held in major cities across the United States last year. It was digitized and produced for viewing over the internet by Acadient, the nations leading interactive, multimedia education company in the financial services industry. The webcast, which is sponsored by Aetna, features seven 45-minute presentations and is now available for purchase at www.benefitnews.com for $99. Group licenses also may be arranged.

The BenefitNews.com webcast features about nine hours of cutting-edge insight and information about new and traditional approaches to health benefit programs. Customers will require Real Player to view the webcast sessions. Real Player can be downloaded from www.real.com.

The webcast offers employee benefit professionals access to current, high-quality information in a cost-effective and time-efficient manner. The sessions feature some of the nations leading authorities on this new and evolving approach to health benefits," said Lynn Densford, director of BenefitNews.com.

Densford also noted that the webcast enables employers to transfer knowledge about these new health care models throughout and around the organization. It can be used to train key benefits and HR employees who now have new or expanded responsibilities, and it enables firms with worldwide locations to facilitate internal strategy discussions.

Companies interested in learning more about or purchasing a corporate license to view the webcast should e-mail michelle.yosslowitz@thomsonmedia.com.

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Launched in 1995 by Employee Benefit News, the industry's leading trade magazine, the BenefitNews.com website is by far the most comprehensive resource on benefits available on the Internet today. Benefits professionals want an Internet resource that lets them research benefits laws and regulations, keeps them on top of trends and lets them benchmark against other companies. Only BenefitNews.com provides the rich editorial content and interactive tools that meet all of these needs.

About Acadient
Based in historic Boston, Acadient develops, hosts, and manages courseware, webcasts, and private-label online universities for financial services companies and industry organizations. The company's team of instructional and technology design experts deliver customized courseware and manage the online, offline, and e-commerce components for their personalized online learning systems. Visit www.acadient.com for more information.