For Release: Tuesday, July 11, 2000

FREMONT, California (July 10, 2000) – Startup telemedicine company MDvista^TM, welcomes onboard a key new senior physician -- Bingyin Wang, MD, PhD -- to lead its introduction of an online Chinese medical journal. The MDvista Journal of Medicine-Greater China is part of the initial stage of the Company’s new international telemedicine effort – MDvista Greater China. “Dr. Wang represents a significant addition to our staff and to MDvista’s telemedicine strategy,” said Antonio Q. Chan, MD, MM, FACC, Founder, CEO and Chairman of MDvista. “He brings to the Company a long and successful record of Dr. Wang, MD, PhD, will hold the senior position of Chief of Medical Services for MDvista Greater China. In this capacity, he will work with a newly comprised advisory group of leading Chinese medical scholars and physicians to guide MDvista’s overall telemedicine products and services – each to be designed specifically for the Greater China markets.

Beginning with MDvista’s distance learning services, Dr. Wang will oversee the translation of the current English-based MDvista Journal of Medicine™ into Chinese. Furthermore, in collaboration with a prestigious set of Chinese medical professors – the Editorial Board -- he will serve as Editor-in-Chief – and begin to build the MDvista Journal of Medicine-Greater China. The Journal’s first issue will be available in late Fall 2000 at www.mdvista.com. Since 1992, Dr. Wang has been a research scientist at Stanford University, serving as the Li KaShing Fellow. He received his MD from HangzhouZhejiang University and his PhD from Beijing University.

"As a Li KaShing Fellow at Stanford University, my obligation is to return to China and help build a world class medical educational and healthcare system for the 21st century. MDvista gives me the vehicle to do just that -- and more,” said Dr. Wang. “I’ve known Dr. Chan at Stanford University since 1992 and I share his deep passion in helping Greater China join the global healthcare community through scientific collaborations and by seeking solutions to China's enormous health concerns," he also noted.

“I believe that physicians and scholars in China will welcome wholeheartedly MDvista’s Chinese distance learning services,” said Dr. Wang. “Medical professionals in all parts of the country are seeking online knowledge and learning opportunities, especially by the

Internationally known academics already affiliated with the MDvista Journal of Medicine^TM. There is a fast growing interest among Chinese health professionals to use the Internet. Fortunately, they have broader and better access to information technology tools. These two conditions set the foundation for the successful delivery of MDvista’s online knowledge services in Greater China. MDvista.com also will provide a vehicle by which Chinese physicians and their medical institutions can contribute to global medical knowledge and practice, as well,” he also went on to say.

To date, MDvista has a total of over 70 medical writers and editors from America’s leading academic medical centers such as Stanford University, Rush Medical College, University of Chicago and Harvard University as well as Johns Hopkins, Baylor, Cornell and Boston Universities. Nearly 176 articles have been published and are being written by these very distinguished writers. “This is the type of branded quality we will put in place for the MDvista Journal of Medicine, Greater China, as we form the prestigious Chinese physician team that we will work with,” noted Dr. Wang.

“We look forward to working with our Chinese medical partners in creating – together -- world class healthcare expertise in distance learning, remote monitoring and online physician to physician consultations with credible, trusted brand,” added CEO Dr. Chan. “MDvista, through this key partnership, aims to develop ‘next generation’ telemedicine applications to enhance medical education and healthcare delivery in the US and in Asia.”

About MDvista -- MDvista is a startup telemedicine company with a global focus, located in Fremont, California. The company’s quality medical content, distance learning and remote monitoring products are the result of quality collaboration, involving major US academic medical centers dedicated to building the most respected healthcare community on the Internet. The new MDvista Journal of Medicine, Greater China will involve leading medical professionals and centers in China. The company plans to offer expert medical content, services and products to physicians and their patients through the use of personalization and intelligent agent technology. Remote monitoring and online diagnostic clinics, backed up by quality medical content, is at the center of MDvista’s business model. For more information, please visit – www.mdvista.com.

CONTACT: Paula Y. Bagasao, PhD
Director Public and Corporate Relations
Email: pbagasao@mdvista.com
510-580-1739-t
510-580-1818-f

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