November 26, 2001		i-Beacon Forms Content Partnership With The HealthScoutNews Service
September 25, 2001		i-Beacon Licenses i-Return CRM to AdvancePCS
June 29, 2001		Healthcare software executive George Barlow joins i-Beacon as SVP, Technology and Operations
March 7, 2001		i-Beacon licenses i-Return to two customers
December 6, 2000		i-Beacon's Consumer Health Record wins Gold Award at eHealthcareWorld
November 1, 2000		i-Beacon acquires healthcare analytics company, Care Dimensions
July 7, 2000		i-Beacon hires industry veteran Mike Massey as CIO
March 8, 2000		i-Beacon launches web site, focuses on providing intelligence for pharmaceutical manufacturers about consumers

i-Beacon Forms Content Partnership With The HealthScoutNews Service

Oakland, CA (November 26, 2001) - i-Beacon, the leading provider of consumer-facing web CRM applications, data, and services for the healthcare industry, announced today that it has partnered with The HealthScoutNews Service, an internationally syndicated daily consumer health news provider.

i-Return CRM, an award-winning consumer-facing web solution, is now available with integrated up-to-the minute health news from HealthScout. i-Beacon will present the HealthScout News Service as a product extension to existing and potential customers worldwide.

i-Return CRM delivers a personalized, interactive, and actionable experience to enhance consumer relationships. i-Return provides consumers with a secure online location to store health conditions and medications, to track health measurements, and to use interactive tools such as drug interaction checking. i-Return encourages frequent and repeated use of a sponsoring organization's website, and is an anchor for a consumer health web strategy. i-Return is a suite of Java-based software tools designed to be completely customized to match the sponsoring organization's "look and feel," and be easily integrated with other applications.

The news content from HealthScoutNews being made available via the i-Return CRM Suite is from a daily news feed of 15+ articles, which include the top stories of the day, FDA approvals, a 4-6 story News Round Up and helpful hints to assist in keeping fit and healthy.

Also available is a set of 13 weekly newsletters containing the latest information about specific conditions and diseases. These include diabetes, cancer, heart disease, allergies and asthma, arthritis and pain, sexual health, women's health, men's health, kids' health, alternative medicine, mental health, senior citizens' health, diet and fitness and the top 10 health stories of the week. The HealthScout News Service is providing i-Beacon with 12 months of story archives containing more than 7,000 articles.

"By using our i-Return CRM Suite and its content personalization engine, i-Beacon's clients ensure that their consumers get a meaningful, customized experience," said Eric Gilbert, i-Beacon's CEO and President. "Incorporating the highest quality health news from HealthScout gives our clients a quick and easy way to provide a credible resource for relevant health education."

"We're impressed with the i-Return CRM product offering and i-Beacon's presence in the healthcare and pharmaceutical market," said Barry Hoffman, the HealthScoutNews Service's Editor in Chief. "We believe that the content from HealthScoutNews makes a compelling product extension to the i-Return CRM Suite."

About i-Beacon
i-Beacon provides healthcare companies with the data, tools, and services to help them improve their relationships with consumers, deliver new value-offerings, and improve their bottom line. i-Beacon has two main product suites: the i-Return CRM suite and the i-Target data analytics services. i-Return CRM creates lasting, effective relationships between healthcare companies and consumers. i-Target Consumer provides a complete picture of healthcare consumers in order to guide consumer marketing campaigns for pharmaceutical companies. i-Target Physician helps pharmaceutical companies understand physician prescribing in terms of their patient populations.

About The HealthScoutNews Service
Launched in 1998, The HealthScoutNews Service has rapidly become a preferred health news provider on the Internet. It appears in prominent locations on sites like Yahoo, USAToday.com InfoSpace, iWon, DrKoop.com and HealthSouth, as well as many hospital and managed care organizations. The HealthScoutNews Service is also syndicated into newspapers and on broadcast outlets through its print partner, The New York Times Syndicate. The news service's staff has won a number of awards for its reporting, most recently a fellowship from the American Academy of Neurology for a special series on epilepsy.

For more information contact:
Matthew Holt
VP, Strategy and Business Development
i-Beacon
510.286.8996
matthewh@i-Beacon.com

Barry Hoffman
Editor in Chief
HealthScout News Service
203.855.1400

i-Beacon Licenses i-Return CRM to AdvancePCS

Oakland, CA (September 25, 2001) - i-Beacon, the leading provider of consumer-facing web CRM applications, data, and services for the healthcare industry, announced today that it has licensed its i-Return CRM suite to AdvancePCS (Nasdaq: ADVP), the nation's leading provider of health improvement services.

AdvancePCS operates one of the nation's largest pharmacy benefit management businesses, serving more than 75 million Americans and managing more than $21 billion in healthcare expenditures. AdvancePCS provides health improvement programs to many of the nation's largest health plans and employers.

i-Return CRM, an award-winning consumer-facing web solution, delivers a personalized, interactive, and actionable experience to enhance consumer relationships. i-Return provides consumers with a secure online location to store health conditions and medications, to track health statistics such as blood sugar and weight, and to use interactive tools such as drug interaction checking. i-Return encourages frequent and repeated use of a sponsoring organization's website, and is the anchor for a consumer health web strategy. i-Return is a suite of Java-based software tools designed to be completely customized to match the sponsoring organization's "look and feel," and be easily integrated with other applications.

AdvancePCS plans to integrate the i-Return product into its online services that help improve its members' health by providing them with valuable tools and information on their health and wellness. AdvancePCS will offer these expanded Internet services to its health plan and employer clients as a component of its overall online offerings.

"We have long recognized the power of the Internet and we have used it to provide high quality content and service for our clients," said Jon Halbert, AdvancePCS vice chairman, e-Business and Technology. "i-Return provides us with a flexible and robust set of online health tools, built on industry-leading technologies such as Java and Oracle, that will allow us to quickly implement exciting new features in our products."

"We are pleased that AdvancePCS has licensed our i-Return product to provide its consumers with a comprehensive set of online tools that will help them better manage their health," said Eric Gilbert, i-Beacon's President and CEO.

Healthcare software executive George Barlow joins i-Beacon as SVP, Technology and Operations

Oakland, CA (June 29, 2001) - i-Beacon announced that George Barlow, a veteran software development executive with over 30 years of commercial software development experience, has joined i-Beacon as Senior Vice President, Technology and Operations.

George will assume responsibility for technical development of i-Beacon's products and oversee i-Beacon's Phoenix technology center. George will also manage daily company operations, including customer service, professional services, and administration.

Prior to joining i-Beacon, George was Senior Vice President, Healthcare Information Technology, for ProVantage Health Services, Inc., a $1 billion pharmacy benefits management and information technology provider. George served as an operating executive and corporate officer with P&L responsibility during the growth of the company, culminating in its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in 1999. ProVantage was later acquired by Merck-Medco in 2000.

At ProVantage, George led the development and commercialization of internet health intervention strategies based on clinical expertise and data management. His team created one of the largest integrated medical and pharmaceutical information databases in the world with data on 20 million patients.

George also served as a key executive for HealthVISION Inc., a startup healthcare software provider. He was Senior Director of Development during the creation of the flagship CareVISION electronic medical record. He then was named corporate head of marketing for the product launch. HealthVISION products were installed in over 60 healthcare organizations worldwide. HealthVISION was acquired by Eclipsys Corporation and the CareVISION product now provides the basis for several Eclipsys products.

"George has a proven track record in growing innovative, entrepreneurial companies and leading them to future success," said Eric Gilbert, i-Beacon's President and CEO. "George's past accomplishments in developing healthcare informatics products and electronic medical records will be invaluable in building upon the successes of i-Beacon's current products."

i-Beacon also announced that Mike Massey, Chief Information Officer, has left the company to pursue other professional interests. "On behalf of i-Beacon, I want to thank Mike for his contributions in building i-Beacon's technical infrastructure and data processing capabilities," said Eric Gilbert. "We wish Mike the best of luck in his future endeavors."

About i-Beacon
i-Beacon is based on a simple idea - healthcare companies need to better serve healthcare consumers. i-Beacon provides healthcare companies with the data, tools, and services to help them improve their relationships with consumers, deliver new value-offerings, and improve their bottom line. You can learn more about i-Beacon's suite of software and data products and services by visiting our site at www.i-Beacon.com.

For more information contact:
Matthew Holt
VP, Strategy and Business Development
i-Beacon
510.286.8996
matthewh@i-Beacon.com

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i-Beacon licenses i-Return to two customers

Oakland, CA (March 7, 2001) - i-Beacon announced today that two clients have licensed its i-Return Consumer Health Record to support their consumer health web strategies.

First Health Group Corp. (NASDAQ: FHCC), the nation's largest full-service national health benefits company, and PSQV, an eHealth company funded by the Spanish government, Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERICY), and other leading European technology companies, will each make the Consumer Health Record available when they re-launch their web sites in the second quarter of 2001.

i-Return provides health plans and pharmaceutical companies with private-label web-based health tools to strengthen their relationships with their customers. The Consumer Health Record allows the health plan to provide its members with a secure online location to store personalized health and medication information, view health information from the plan's legacy systems, conduct interactive drug checks, and assess health risks. The i-Return Consumer Health Record is a Java-based (J2EE compliant) application that is installed on the client's servers.

"Our Consumer Health Record and other online tools provide First Health with a way to connect directly with its members to help them take charge of their health and gain valuable feedback about their behavior and health habits," said Eric Gilbert, i-Beacon's CEO.

PSQV and its partner companies will make the i-Return Consumer Health Record available to the six million citizens of the Spanish province of Catalonia. "Because the health record is a fully-customizable software package that resides on the PSQV's own servers, i-Beacon's product will be integrated with other Spanish sources of personal medical information," said Ed Johnson, CEO of Global eHealth Partners, a partner with PSQV.

About i-Beacon
i-Beacon is based on a simple idea - healthcare companies need to better serve healthcare consumers. i-Beacon provides healthcare companies with the data, tools, and services to help them improve their relationships with consumers, deliver new value-offerings, and improve their bottom line. You can learn more about i-Beacon's suite of software and data products and services by visiting our site at www.i-Beacon.com.

For more information contact:
Matthew Holt
VP, Strategy and Business Development
i-Beacon
510.286.8996
matthewh@i-Beacon.com

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i-Beacon's Consumer Health Record wins Gold Award at eHealthcareWorld

New York, New York (December 6, 2000) - i-Beacon, the leading provider of consumer-facing web applications, data, and services for the healthcare industry, has been recognized for achievement and excellence at the 2000 eHealthcareWorld Awards Ceremony in New York, earning the Gold Award for Best Interactive Web Tool for its Consumer Health Record application.

"We are pleased to have won the Gold Award at this year's eHealthcareWorld," said Eric Gilbert, CEO of i-Beacon. "We pride ourselves on having the best, most interactive health record available today. This award serves as a validation of the quality of our consumer health record and the value that our application can bring the health plans, pharmaceutical companies, and other health care companies that have chosen to integrate it as part of their overall consumer web strategy."

i-Beacon's Consumer Health Record, as part of the i-Return consumer-facing web solution for health plans and payers, provides the personalized, interactive, and actionable experience that is proven to bond members to their plans. Allowing the health plan to provide its members with a secure online location to store health conditions and medications, personalized information and tools, and interactive drug checks and health risk assessments, the Consumer Health Record encourages members to repeatedly use their health plan's web site.

The eHealthcareWorld Awards recognize and promote groundbreaking achievement in the creation, development and execution of eHealth through exceptional online technology. Entrants from around the world competed for awards in three levels - Gold, Silver, and Bronze - in numerous categories representing a variety of health-focused Internet applications. Judges evaluate award finalists based on numerous criteria, including content, design, structure and navigation, performance, and interactivity. The awards were presented at a special dinner ceremony on December 5, 2000 at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers.

About i-Beacon
i-Beacon provides healthcare companies with the data, tools, and services to help them improve their relationships with consumers, deliver new value-offerings, and improve their bottom line. i-Beacon has three main product suites. i-Return empowers healthcare companies to retain their customers by bonding with them on a personal level. The i-Return Consumer Health Record individualizes data and content to the consumer, creating a lasting, effective relationship between the healthcare company and its customers. Leveraging a proprietary mix of medical and consumer-facing data sources, the i-Target advanced data analytics infrastructure provides a complete picture of healthcare consumers in order to guide consumer marketing campaigns for pharmaceutical companies. i-Recruit helps improve online clinical trial recruiting.

You can learn more about i-Beacon by visiting our site at www.i-Beacon.com.

For more information contact:
Matthew Holt
VP, Strategy and Business Development
i-Beacon
510.286.8996
matthewh@i-Beacon.com

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i-Beacon acquires healthcare analytics company, Care Dimensions

Oakland, CA (November 1, 2000) - i-Beacon announced today that it has acquired healthcare analytics company Care Dimensions, Inc. Care Dimensions provides benchmarking and analytic services to physician groups, health plans and pharmaceutical companies. Care Dimensions will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of i-Beacon.

"Care Dimensions is recognized for its cutting-edge data analytics related to physician and patient outcomes," said Eric Gilbert, President/CEO of i-Beacon. "Using i-Beacon's revolutionary eCommerce infrastructure, we will be able to integrate their data and analytic capabilities with our existing suite of services which help healthcare companies better understand consumers. This acquisition helps reinforce i-Beacon's position at the forefront of the consumer-focused healthcare revolution and also allows us to expand into enhancing physician-centric data."

"Joining forces with i-Beacon will allow us to to provide physicians, pharmaceutical companies and health plans with the most accurate, detailed, and actionable information about consumer and physician behavior," said Cliff Ossorio, President, Care Dimensions. "In the coming months, we will be developing the next-generation of products and services, and they will be an unmatched source of information as the healthcare industry becomes more aware of consumer and physician behavior."

About Care Dimensions
Care Dimensions has long-term professional relationships with many California medical groups, health plans, and clinical laboratories. It provides data processing, warehousing, and clinical programs for more than 20 physician organizations and 5,000 physicians, collectively providing care to over 1.5 million managed care lives in California. By integrating prescription and other treatment data with clinical laboratory results, Care Dimensions is able to precisely measure clinical drug effectiveness and provide actionable information to its various customers. Care Dimensions, a wholly owned subsidiary of i-Beacon, is based in Sherman Oaks, California.

About i-Beacon
i-Beacon provides healthcare companies with the data, tools, and services to help them improve their relationships with consumers, deliver new value-offerings, and improve their bottom line. i-Beacon has three main product suites. i-Return empowers healthcare companies to retain their customers by bonding with them on a personal level. The i-Return Consumer Health Record individualizes data and content to the consumer, creating a lasting, effective relationship between the healthcare company and its customers. Leveraging a proprietary mix of medical and consumer-facing data sources, the i-Target advanced data analytics infrastructure provides a complete picture of healthcare consumers in order to guide consumer marketing campaigns for pharmaceutical companies. i-Recruit helps improve online clinical trial recruiting.

You can learn more about i-Beacon by visiting our site at www.i-Beacon.com.

For more information contact:
Matthew Holt
VP, Strategy and Business Development
i-Beacon
510.286.8996
matthewh@i-Beacon.com

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i-Beacon hires industry veteran Mike Massey as CIO. Massey will run newly opened Phoenix, Arizona technology center and direct technology strategy

Oakland, CA (July 7, 2000) - i-Beacon announced today the appointment of Mike Massey as Chief Information Officer. i-Beacon also announced the opening of its new technology center in Phoenix, Arizona.

Mike brings over 25 years of information technology and networking experience to i-Beacon. He was Chief Information Officer of Health Information Services for National Data Corporation where he directed software development, systems architecture, data centers, and network operations. He served as CIO for lines of business at First Data Corporation, a $1.5 billion dollar credit card transactions processing company. He has also served as senior vice president at Sprint Corporation and executive vice president at Visa International, where he was responsible for all data and network operations worldwide. Mike began his technology career working in data and network operations for the US Navy. Mike will lead the new Phoenix technology center, and will direct i-Beacon's technology strategy.

The technology center is i-Beacon's second facility. The corporate offices are located in Oakland, California's Jack London Square. The technology center will house the company's healthcare data warehouse. i-Beacon has created a proprietary high volume data extraction, transformation, and loading infrastructure which is capable of accepting many different types of healthcare data. i-Beacon's products support consumer research and product development for pharmaceutical and healthcare companies.

"Mike's track record of success and years of experience provide us with the technical leadership needed to build the infrastructure for our products and services," said Eric Gilbert, i-Beacon's President and CEO. "Mike's deep experience with proven high volume transaction systems will help us deliver robust, cutting edge solutions for our customers."

"i-Beacon is ideally positioned to provide the analysis required for the healthcare industry's new consumer focus," said Mike Massey. "I am excited to be joining this dynamic organization and to help build a completely new set of services for the pharmaceutical and healthcare marketplace."

About i-Beacon
i-Beacon provides healthcare companies with the data, tools, and services to help them improve their relationships with consumers, deliver new value-offerings, and improve their bottom line. i-Beacon has three main product suites. i-Return empowers healthcare companies to retain their customers by bonding with them on a personal level. The i-Return Consumer Health Record individualizes data and content to the consumer, creating a lasting, effective relationship between the healthcare company and its customers. Leveraging a proprietary mix of medical and consumer-facing data sources, the i-Target advanced data analytics infrastructure provides a complete picture of healthcare consumers in order to guide consumer marketing campaigns for pharmaceutical companies. i-Recruit helps improve online clinical trial recruiting.

i-Beacon's corporate offices are based in Oakland, California and its Technology Center is located in Phoenix, Arizona. i-Beacon has significant partnerships with Sun Microsystems, National Data Corporation, and First Databank. You can learn more about i-Beacon by visiting our site at www.i-Beacon.

For more information contact:
Matthew Holt
VP, Strategy and Business Development
i-Beacon
510.286.8996
matthewh@i-Beacon.com

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i-Beacon launches Web site, focuses on providing intelligence for pharmaceutical manufacturers about consumers

Oakland, CA (March 8, 2000) - i-Beacon today launched its new Web site which gives information about its products, partnerships, and people. i-Beacon is aimed at the $120 billion market for pharmaceuticals in the United States, and provides actionable analytic products and services that help pharmaceutical and healthcare companies better understand consumers.

Products
i-Beacon's core data warehouse and analytic product line is called i-Target. Using the i-Target data infrastructure we are creating a set of high-margin products and services in market research, compliance promotion, marketing campaign management, and the i-Recruit clinical trials patient recruiting service. The i-Target data warehouse matches prescription and medical claims with other consumer data. The data warehouse is enhanced by comprehensive analysis tools, which integrate with pharmaceutical manufacturers' clinical-trial, promotional, and strategic research operations. i-Target uses an innovative and secure data analytics architecture built on a scalable Sun Microsystems platform.

i-Beacon has a related product offering based on the same data analytics infrastructure that helps healthcare companies increase their bottom line. i-Return provides a suite of Web-based services that health plans can use to enhance their consumer strategy. The i-Return Consumer Health Record is a Web-based set of risk analysis and consumer-facing management solutions that improve compliance and disease management. The i-Return Consumer Health Record provides a tool set that consumer health Web sites and medical records portals can private label in order to (a) improve their consumers' experience and customize the content they deliver them, and (b) to analyze the data they receive from consumers. Pharmaceutical companies use the i-Return Consumer Health Record (either on a standalone basis or in conjunction with other consumer health Web companies) to strengthen their relationships with consumers, providers and payers, while increasing product sales.

Partnerships
i-Beacon has partnered with Sun Microsystems to develop a secure and scalable eCommerce infrastructure for the healthcare market.

i-Beacon is working with National Data Corporation, the nation's largest pharmaceutical-transaction and information company, to create leading edge analytic healthcare applications. More details about these relationships will be released shortly.

People
i-Beacon's President/CEO is Eric Gilbert, was previously the President of Health Resources, Inc. i-Beacon's management team has significant experience in the healthcare, electronic commerce, market research, and pharmaceutical industries. It includes executives from McKinsey & Company, Andersen Consulting, Harris Interactive, and National Data Corporation.

About i-Beacon
i-Beacon provides healthcare companies with the data, tools, and services to help them improve their relationships with consumers, deliver new value-offerings, and improve their bottom line. i-Beacon has three main product suites. i-Return empowers healthcare companies to retain their customers by bonding with them on a personal level. The i-Return Consumer Health Record individualizes data and content to the consumer, creating a lasting, effective relationship between the healthcare company and its customers. Leveraging a proprietary mix of medical and consumer-facing data sources, the i-Target advanced data analytics infrastructure provides a complete picture of healthcare consumers in order to guide consumer marketing campaigns for pharmaceutical companies. i-Recruit helps improve online clinical trial recruiting.

i-Beacon's corporate offices are based in Oakland, California and its Technology Center is located in Phoenix, Arizona. i-Beacon has significant partnerships with Sun Microsystems, National Data Corporation, and First Databank. You can learn more about i-Beacon by visiting our site at www.i-Beacon.

i-Beacon is the successor company to RSK Health Risk Solutions, Inc., and was re-launched in January 2000.

For more information contact:
Matthew Holt
VP, Strategy and Business Development
i-Beacon
510.286.8996
matthewh@i-Beacon.com

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