April 17, 2000

Medicity Signs 8,000-Plus Healthcare Professionals

By Lara Jones
Assistant Editor

Salt Lake City-based Medicity, Inc., developer of a new communications open network for health care, and First Choice Physicians (FCP) Network, announced least week that 8,000-plus professionals from the FCP Network will become the premier virtual health care community in Arizona.

The agreement will initially begin by linking three clinics to each other via Medicity.com, a secure, patented, Web-based communications environment that delivers user-defined, time-relevant, job-critical information to health care professionals.

"By using Medicity, First Choice Physicians will extend their communications across multiple health care communications, inside and outside their organization as well as connecting them to vital, relevant information," said James (Kipp) Lassetter, M.D., co-founder and CEO of Medicity.

"The FCP Network triples the user base for Medicity, allowing us to prove the scalability of the product," said Brad Overby, vice president of sales for Medicity. "We are currently talking with several other large organizations, such as Independent Physician Associations (IPA) and Physician Hospital Organizations (PHO) about Medicity, and plan to increase our total user-base well beyond 35,000 by Q4."

Medicity is currently installed with over 3,000 physicians, nurses, staff and health care management professionals in southern California and Utah. The Medicity network is scheduled to publicly launch in the second quarter 2000.

Founded in 1998, privately-held Medicity, Inc., is a secure communications information network for health care that is viral, community-centric and free. The company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. First round funding was provided by eCompanies Ventures and Seaboard & Co. LLC.