[announce] Novant Health Selects Arbortext

[Beth Ambaruch <bea@arbortext.com>]

Novant Health Selects Arbortext Multichannel Publishing Solution for
Cardiovascular Institute Patient Education Material

Arbortext and Health Language collaborate to provide healthcare
application that delivers patient education material to 2.2 million
people


ANN ARBOR, Michigan and AURORA, Colorado – October 29, 2001 – Arbortext,
Inc. and Health Language, Inc., today announced they have entered into
an integrator agreement to develop and deliver a multichannel publishing
application to the healthcare industry.  The first customer, Novant
Health’s Cardiovascular Institute, will use the XML-based application to
publish patient education material to print and the Web.

“The first phase of this application is the launch of the Presbyterian
Center for Preventive Cardiology,” said Douglas Smith, Director of
Internet Technologies for Novant Health.   “We required a system that
enabled our subject matter experts to develop patient education material
for distribution to a variety of media in a very short time frame.
Working together, Arbortext and Health Language provided us with what we
needed today and gave us the ability to expand the scope of the project
when desired.”

Arbortext integrated Health Language’s Cyber Language Engine (Cyber+LE)
software with its XML-based Epic authoring and publishing software.
Cyber+LE enables an author to search and use healthcare terminology from
different information sources that contain dissimilar medical and drug
vocabularies.  Through the combination of Arbortext’s Epic Editor and
Epic E-Content Engine (E3), authors are able to capture, create and
publish customer-facing information automatically from a single source
to multiple media, including the Web, print, CD-ROM and wireless
devices.

Said George T. Schwend, President and COO of Health Language, Inc., “We
are delighted Arbortext chose our unique healthcare language engine
technology to integrate with their XML-based single-source, multichannel
publishing software to deliver this healthcare application to Novant
Health.”

Said PG Bartlett, Vice President, Marketing for Arbortext, “Health
Language and Arbortext worked closely together to develop this
application for the healthcare market.  Novant Health is the first of
what we expect to be many healthcare facilities to implement the
application to provide fresh, consistent and up-to-date information to
their customers.”

About Arbortext
Arbortext is the only global provider of XML-based software that enables
the creation, editing and publishing of information to multiple media
types – Web, print, CD-ROM, wireless – from a single source of content.
Shipping since 1991, Arbortext’s standards-based software supports
technical publishing, reference publishing and catalog publishing
applications that enable enterprises to provide more accurate,
cost-efficient, complete, timely, consistent and usable information on
all media. Arbortext’s software is installed at over 3,500 customers,
including over 300 of the Global 2000 companies. Current customers
include American Express, Audi, Boeing, British Aerospace, Caterpillar,
DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson Telecom, Ford, GM, IBM, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel
Networks, PeopleSoft, Pfizer, Qantas, Ricoh, Sun Microsystems,
International Thomson Publishing, United Airlines, Volkswagen, Volvo and
West Group. Arbortext is a founding member and active participant in the
XML Activity of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Headquartered in
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Arbortext has offices around the world.  For
more information please visit http://www.arbortext.com.

About Health Language Inc.
Founded in 2000, Health Language, Inc. is the only global software
infrastructure company that services the healthcare industry with a
patent-pending meta-modeling technology capable of handling information
from all the languages, specialty data and coding standards of
healthcare.  Cyber+LE, the company's product, provides a common medical
knowledge management system across disparate healthcare information
systems, languages and standards allowing for comprehensive integrated
and intelligent management of all health data. Health Language, based in
Aurora, Colorado, is a CyberPlus Company (www.cyberplus.com). Further
information on Health Language, Inc is available at
www.healthlanguage.com or by calling 303-307-4400

About Novant Health
Novant Health is a non-profit healthcare system in western North
Carolina, serving more than 2.2 million people in 32 counties reaching
from southern Virginia to northern South Carolina.  The healthcare
system consists of strong community-based providers that are preferred
by the citizens in the communities they serve. It employs more than
12,000 people, and its eight inpatient hospitals in the Triad and
Southern Piedmont regions account for nearly 2,000 licensed beds. Other
facilities and programs of Novant Health include three philanthropic
foundations, three nursing home and senior residential facilities,
physician clinics, outpatient surgery and diagnostic centers,
rehabilitation programs, community health outreach programs and a school
of nursing.
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Contact:	Beth Ambaruch	  Steve Jensen		 Christopher Little
		Arbortext, Inc.	  Phase Two Strategies	 Health Language
		+1 734.327.6014	  +1 415.772.8403		 +1 978.463.7876
		bea@arbortext.com	  sjensen@p2pr.com	 cshl@healthlanguage.com