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SKYSCAPE STRENGTHENS NURSING MARKET PRESENCE WITH F.A. DAVIS PARTNERSHIP

Top F.A. Davis Reference Books Now Available For Use On All PDAs

HUDSON, Mass. - September 9, 2002 - Skyscape, Inc., the leading provider of interactive, intelligent mobile solutions for the healthcare community, today announced an expansion of its nursing market initiatives and a new strengthened partnership with F.A. Davis. With its expanded partnership, Skyscape brings five of the most popular nursing references to the PDA for the first time. These titles will complement the four F.A. Davis titles already available for PDAs and give the more than 2.7 million nurses and nursing students immediate access to critical information at the point of care.

In the coming weeks, Skyscape will be adapting and releasing the following publications for use with handheld devices:

• Nurse's Fast Facts: The Only Book You Need for Clinicals!, 2nd Edition
• Practical Guide to Health Assessment Through the Life Span, 3rd Edition
• Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales, 8th Edition
• Psychosocial Nursing for General Patient Care, 2nd Edition
• RNotes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide

These new titles complement Skyscape's core nursing offering of other F.A. Davis books which includes Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 19th Edition, Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual, 2nd Edition, and Nurse's Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 3rd Edition.

"F.A. Davis books have served as the standard for nursing reference for decades, but now with the changing nature of nursing-nurses also need solutions they can take with them within the hospital, clinic or home care environment," said Judy Ilov Neely, senior vice president, F.A. Davis. "By teaming with Skyscape, F.A. Davis ensures nurses have access to the information they need, via their handhelds, no matter where they are."

Leader in the Nursing Market - Skyscape Gives Nurses the Information They Need

The F.A. Davis titles, powered by Skyscape, enable nurses, students and other health care professionals to search for information between F.A. Davis publications and other Skyscape-powered titles via their handhelds. This is made possible by the power of Skyscape's smARTlink™ technology. With it, nurses can research and make proper treatment decisions, check appropriate vital sign ranges, and determine how to best approach patients of different ages. Nurses simply load the Skyscape-powered titles that meet their needs onto their PDAs, and each seamlessly links between relevant sections of the different publications, ensuring that nurses can find the information they are looking for, even if they are not sure where it is.

"Nurses and nursing students need to know more today than they ever did before," said RJ Mathew, vice president marketing and business development for Skyscape. "Nurses are the largest single group of medical professionals, and they are increasingly relied upon to make critical decisions on a moment's notice. The F.A. Davis publications, enhanced with Skyscape technology, are helping nurses meet the growing demands on their time while allowing them to increase time with their patients with minimal disruption or separation from the patient."

The new F.A. Davis, Skyscape-powered titles span the gamut of nursing situations, including treatment, diagnoses and patient care.

• Nurse's Fast Facts: The Only Book You Need for Clinicals!, 2nd Edition - Provides the most sought after clinical information in eight nursing content areas: medical/surgical; maternal/infant; pediatric; mental health; emergency and critical care; gerontologic; nutrition; and home health care.
• Practical Guide to Health Assessment Through the Life Span, 3rd Edition - A health assessment pocket guide designed as a quick reference for nursing students and nurses working in clinical settings. It covers nursing assessment for all age groups, with specialized communication techniques for clients of different ages and cultural backgrounds.
• Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales, 8th Edition - Specifically designed for nursing students, this guide helps students identify interventions most commonly associated with nursing diagnoses when caring for patients.
• Psychosocial Nursing for General Patient Care, 2nd Edition - Prepares students and nurses for common psychosocial and psychiatric problems that can coincide with patients' medical problems.
• RNotes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide - Is a handy collection of commonly used but rarely memorized information such as charts, graphs, formulas, conversions and lab values.

Skyscape's technology brings critical information to healthcare professionals, in a context they can use-reducing the time they need to spend searching for information and adding value by enabling complex queries and access to the latest healthcare information. Skyscape's patented ART™ Engine enables practitioners to follow their own intuitive thought process and workflow, improving quality of care and reducing administrative time.

"I believe all nurses need a comprehensive guide to patient conditions," said Cynthia Francis Bechtel, MS, RN, CEN, EMT-I, MassBay Community College. "In our fast-paced healthcare setting it is essential that nurses be able to access information quickly. Since I started using a handheld with Skyscape-powered titles, I can just glance at it to quickly find the proper course of action even if I have never encountered the particular situation before."

About F.A. Davis
F.A. Davis is a leading American publisher that has been independently owned and operated since 1879. It is well known in the healthcare industry for its many best selling textbooks, references, and educational software in nursing, medicine and the health professions. Among its top selling titles are Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, the best selling healthcare dictionary for over 60 years and Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses. In addition to nursing, F.A. Davis publishes extensively in the areas of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and clinical lab sciences. To learn more about F.A. Davis, please visit www.fadavis.com.

About Skyscape
Skyscape is the leading provider of interactive, intelligent mobile solutions for the healthcare community. Skyscape utilizes its patented ART (Advanced Reference and Transaction) infrastructure technology to create compelling high-value solutions for handheld devices that reflect and support the intuitive thought processes of the medical practitioner. Skyscape's solutions significantly improve the quality and efficiency of medical decision making-at the point of care-by enabling doctors to diagnose illnesses, determine treatment, prescribe medication, identify drug interactions, calculate dosages and perform all the necessary steps involved with quality patient care.

Skyscape has the largest installed base of paying customers in the industry including individual and communities of medical practitioners at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Stanford Medical School, Partners Health System, Duke University, Mayo Clinic, and Kaiser Permanente. Skyscape's solutions are available on multiple platforms including Palm OS®, Windows® CE, and Pocket PC. For more information about Skyscape, please visit our Web site at www.skyscape.com.

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