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Skyscape Technology to Drive New Medical Content in Deal with PocketMedicine.com



SKYSCAPE TECHNOLOGY TO DRIVE NEW MEDICAL CONTENT IN DEAL WITH POCKETMEDICINE.COM

Shakespeare™ authoring tool will develop original medical content

Hudson, MA, September 6, 2000 - Skyscape.com, an innovative leader in providing hand-held wireless software solutions for the medical community www.skyscape.com, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with PocketMedicine.com. The partnership provides for PocketMedicine.com to use Skyscape's content authoring tool, Shakespeare™, to develop "gold-standard" medical content for hand-held devices. Shakespeare uses Skyscape's Advanced Referencing Technology (ART™) to develop practice-specific solutions for medical professionals.

"In my 31 years of medical publishing experience, the industry has been continuously searching for better ways to publish original medical content on multiple platforms," said Lewis Reines, President of PocketMedicine.com. "After looking at a number of other technologies, we knew immediately that Skyscape's Shakespeare authoring tool was the ideal solution for strengthening our ability to develop and distribute critical content to mobile medical professionals."

Under the agreement, PocketMedicine.com will work with leading medical authors to develop and publish original medical content for use on the full range of hand-helds including PALM™, Pocket PC and other Windows CE devices. The first work is planned for publication in 4Q 2000.

Sandeep Shah, President and CEO for Skyscape stated, "This partnership represents a significant endorsement of Skyscape's unique technology platform. It also demonstrates the rapidly growing acceptance of the Company's ART technology as the 'gold-standard' for developing and deploying critical content for hand-held devices."

Skyscape currently distributes the most comprehensive portfolio of medical reference works for Palm™ and Windows CE® platforms including Apothecarium™, a drug information and interaction analyzer; LexiDrugs™, a comprehensive drug information handbook; and IDBook™, a disease-specific guide providing information on infectious disease syndromes.

APOTHECARIUM™ is a trademark of Skyscape.com.

PALM® and Palm OS® are trademarks of Palm, Inc. Windows CE® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

About Skyscape

Skyscape.com (formerly K2 Consultants, Inc.) is an eHealth company developing hand-held wireless solutions for the medical community. Skyscape utilizes its ART™ technology to rapidly develop products that enable practitioners to enhance the quality of patient care and streamline administrative processes. ART allows seamless integration of diverse sources of information in an easy to use interface, and is available on multiple platforms. Skyscape's products are currently an essential resource for thousands of medical professionals including users at leading institutions such as Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Partners Health System, Duke University, Mayo Clinic, and the New York School of Dentistry. Skyscape products are available on multiple platforms including PalmPilot and WinCE. The Company is located in Hudson, MA.


About Skyscape
Skyscape® is the worldwide leading service for trusted medical information by specialty for mobile devices. Skyscape's service enables healthcare practitioners to tailor their experience from the most trusted medical information available and delivers it in an intuitive manner that supports the natural thought flow for diagnosis and treatment. Skyscape has a registered user base of over 1.1 million medical practitioners. Its more than 500 trusted resourcess cover 30+ medical specialties. All are integrated via Skyscape's easy-to-use SmartLink™ technology and are available on Palm OS®, BlackBerry®, iPhone, Symbian S60, 3rd edition (Nokia)®, Windows® Mobile and Windows® powered desktop and Tablet PCs. Skyscape is a privately held company headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts. For more information on Skyscape and its service go to www.skyscape.com or call 508-460-6500.

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