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RelayHealth CEO to be a Featured Panelist at Esther Dyson's Personal Health Information Workshop
Influential Forum Brings Together Key Influencers to Examine Trends and Opportunities in the Health Data Market
Emeryville, CA, September 28, 2005 — RelayHealth Corporation, the nation's premier provider of health plan-reimbursed online doctor-patient communication services, today announced that Giovanni Colella MD, president and CEO of RelayHealth, will be a featured panelist at Esther Dyson's Personal Health Information (PHI) Workshop. The PHI Workshop, which will assess the collection, management, and use of personal health information, will be held September 30 at The New School in New York City.
Speakers and panelists, who are hand-picked for the event, are CEOs of major technology-oriented companies and other well-known industry leaders. At Esther Dyson's PHI Workshop, Dr. Colella will share both scientific research and real-world case studies encountered by RelayHealth, whose secure online service builds a portable, consumer-controlled personal health record for individual patients and interoperates with leading electronic health record systems at the point of care.
Esther Dyson is editor at large at CNET Networks, where she is responsible for its Release 1.0 monthly newsletter, which detects and analyzes trends in the IT industry. Release 1.0 is widely quoted and known for its early insight into industry trends.
"There is a wealth of scientific evidence, bolstered by tangible successes, demonstrating that a more connected healthcare environment yields greater convenience, lower cost, and better outcomes — transforming the healthcare experience for all parties," said Giovanni Colella, MD, president and chief executive officer of RelayHealth. "As a pioneer in this market space, RelayHealth has secured millions of healthcare interactions between consumers and their own healthcare providers. I look forward to sharing what we've learned over the past five years with the technology leaders, investors, and policymakers who will be attending this prestigious event."
For more information on the Personal Health Information Workshop, visit http://www.release1-0.com/events.
About RelayHealth Corporation
RelayHealth is the premier provider of payor-reimbursed secure online healthcare communication
services linking patients, healthcare professionals, health plans, and pharmacies. A secure,
clinically structured productivity platform for the medical office, the RelayHealth service
is an emerging online communication standard, interfacing with both commercial and custom-built
electronic medical record systems through the company's Interoperability Toolkit. Research
studies show RelayHealth reduces phone traffic and increases physician productivity through
modular features like the webVisit® clinical consultation and
eScript electronic prescribing — one reason
leading health plans nationwide increasingly reimburse providers who use the RelayHealth
service. For healthcare consumers, RelayHealth improves convenience, access and communication
with their own doctors. For information, visit www.relayhealth.com.
