Online Healthwise® Knowledgebase Receives Medicine on the Net Award for Enhancing Health Care Consumers Capabilities and Knowledge: Healthwises nonprofit goal is for every health care decision to be well-informed and in the best interest of the patient.

Healthwise, Incorporated, a nonprofit producer of consumer health information, has received top recognition by the Medicine on the Net Web Excellence Awards program for Outstanding Content in the Healthwise® Knowledgebase.

Healthwise, Incorporated
Contact: Brenda Foster
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Online Healthwise® Knowledgebase Receives Medicine on the Net Award for Enhancing Health Care Consumers Capabilities and Knowledge:
Healthwises nonprofit goal is for every health care decision to be well-informed
and in the best interest of the patient.

BOISE, Idaho, January 23, 2003-Healthwise, Incorporated, a nonprofit producer of consumer health information, has received top recognition by the Medicine on the Net Web Excellence Awards program for Outstanding Content in the Healthwise® Knowledgebase. The Healthwise Knowledgebase rated highest and received the only Outstanding Content award in the healthcare/medical suppliers category. A panel of Internet experts judged competing sites on how users capabilities and knowledge are best enhanced. The awards were presented to health care organizations that demonstrate excellence in the overall quality, user interface, design, and content of their Web sites.

This award is one more milestone in our 27-year effort to help people make better health decisions," said Donald W. Kemper, Healthwise founder and CEO. Healthwise has built a huge team of writers, editors, medical librarians, and experts in every medical specialty to develop the information people need to select the care that is best for them. Our goal is for every health care decision to be well-informed and in the best interest of the patient," said Kemper. More than 30 million health care decisions are made every year with our information."

Three other Web Excellence Awards honored sites featuring the Healthwise Knowledgebase. Sutter Health received two awards, one for Best Design and an honorable mention for Best Overall site, both in the hospital/health systems category. And First Health received the Best Design award in the consumer portals category.

Until recently, Healthwise was best known for having distributed nearly 24 million Healthwise Handbooks to health care consumers. However, over the past ten years Healthwise has developed a much broader and deeper consumer health resource in the Healthwise Knowledgebase. With more than 5,000 evidence-based topics, the Healthwise Knowledgebase covers virtually every health problem, medical test, medication, and health issue facing Americans. Each topic is rigorously researched, clearly documented, and expertly reviewed by medical specialists. Hundreds of hospitals and nine of the top ten managed care organizations choose Healthwise products for their consumers.

About Healthwise
Healthwise, Incorporated, is a nonprofit organization that has been helping people make better health decisions since 1975. People make more than 30 million health care decisions every year with Healthwise handbooks, online content, and nurse call center resources. The new intelligent" Healthwise Knowledgebase is indexed for online information therapy to help organizations get the right information to the right person at the right time. For more information, visit www.healthwise.org and www.informationtherapy.org, or call
1-800-706-9646.

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