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Press ReleaseAllina.com and Medformation.com Named "Best of the Best"Columbia, MD (Oct. 20, 2000) - Allina Health System's web site Allina.com has been named "Best of the Best" in healthcare provider Web sites by Modern Healthcare magazine and the CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) Healthcare Group. A resource found in Allina.com is Medformation.com, the regional healthcare Web portal designed by Allina Health System and HealthOnline, Inc. Many of the special features cited in the award are found on Medformation.com.Medformation.com was launched last year by Allina Health System, a Minnetonka, Minnesota-based integrated healthcare delivery system. Medformation.com was developed to provide consumers with information on diseases and conditions, medical news stories, and message boards and chats, and allow consumers to purchase products, all from their own local physicians and caregivers. "The Internet is vast and can be very impersonal," said Laura Kinkead, vice president of marketing at Allina. "Healthcare is personal. Research shows people want information from their doctors. We've got those local connections. People know us and trust us; that's our advantage over the larger national Web sites and we kept that in mind as we designed this portal." The "Quest for the Best" contest sponsored by Modern Healthcare and CSC looked at three different types of Web sites: a health system, a stand-alone hospital and a medical group. The judges looked at performance/usability; administrative-user content and function; consumer-user content and function and clinical-user content and function There was one winner and two finalists for each of the three categories. Allina, the "Best of the Best" was chosen from the three winners. "We are proud to be partners with Allina on this groundbreaking project and thrilled by this award," said Randy Dulin, President of HealthOnline. "Being named "Best of the Best" confirms what we already know: that people want to receive healthcare information from a trusted source-their own physicians and healthcare networks. And they want to get this information from a site that is well designed, easy to navigate and packed with information." "Allina utilized their expertise in programming and built the applications in-house," Dulin explained. "We provided strategic planning, graphic design, and content support. It was a great partnership that resulted in an exciting Web portal." ___ HealthOnline leads the industry in developing effective regional Internet solutions for healthcare organizations and consumers. HealthOnline provides products and services for regional health systems to implement their Internet strategies. Working with providers, HealthOnline offers a unique package of Web-based information technologies that links medical offices, labs, and hospitals, allowing them to access and manage data, communicate directly with consumers, transition consumer business to the Web, generate e-health revenue, and improve operational efficiencies. For more information, visit HealthOnline at http://www.healthonline.com or call (800) 463-6482. Contact: Davison R. Dulin HealthOnline, Inc. www.healthonline.com (410) 423 4900 |
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