WellMed Provides Its Personal Health Manager to Ford Motor Company's U.S. Employees

    PORTLAND, Ore., July 16 WellMed, Inc., the leading
provider of online consumer health management tools, today announced a
licensing agreement with Ford Motor Company .  The WellMed Personal
Health Manager is now accessible to 170,000 U.S. employees and their families
through the Ford Model E program from home or from work via the Internet.
    "The Ford agreement represents a significant business development for
WellMed and is an excellent example of a company recognizing the importance of
offering online health resources as an employee benefit," says Craig Froude,
president and CEO of WellMed.  "This sets a precedent that is being followed
by many Fortune 500 companies as employers continue to make the Internet and
Web-based resources accessible to their workers."
    Ford employees and their families now use personal computers to access and
receive important information about corporate initiatives, health, finances,
benefits and continuing education.  WellMed's suite of tools is now a part of
the online health resources made available to Ford employees, and will expand
Ford's existing health initiatives that include summer safety, men's and
women's health, cancer awareness and mental health.
    The WellMed Personal Health Manager enables Ford employees and their
families to assess, record and improve their health on a daily basis.  It
includes general and gender-specific health risk assessment tools that cover
past health issues, family history and lifestyle habits; a secure location for
individuals to create, gather, and store health records; a source of
educational information on conventional and alternative treatment options for
important health topics such as allergies, asthma, depression, diabetes,
cancer and stress; and interactive, self-paced programs designed to assist
individuals in achieving positive, healthful change such as quitting smoking,
improving nutrition and fitness or preparing for a healthy pregnancy.  Ford
employees and their families can also receive health information and reminders
by e-mail if they so choose.
    Physician-founded and clinically based, WellMed became the first company
to develop online personal health management tools that were integrated and
customizable to the needs of a sponsoring organization.  WellMed's solutions
use the Internet to provide an extension of a sponsoring organization's
business practices and guidelines regarding health information.
    WellMed provides a communication platform, consisting of about 60 online
health management tools, that enable individuals to improve communication with
their loved ones and every constituent of their health care delivery system
such as physicians, pharmacists, providers and payors.  WellMed has taken a
lead in developing privacy and security policy for the transfer and storage of
personal health information as well as standards for the quality of health
information available to individuals on the Internet.

    About WellMed
    WellMed, Inc., founded in 1993, is the leading provider of online consumer
health management products and services that allow people to assess, record
and improve their health on a daily basis.  The WellMed Personal Health
Manager suite of tools is a resource for organizing and obtaining personalized
health information via the Web.  It includes tailored health improvement
programs that assist individuals in managing and monitoring specific health
conditions or issues; a set of health risk profiling and reporting tools; and
secure, online health records for individuals and their families.  The WellMed
Personal Health Manager is the standard consumer interface for personalized
health, and is licensed to Fortune 500 corporations, national health care and
provider organizations, pharmaceutical companies and Internet portals.
WellMed is a privately held company headquartered in Portland, Oregon.  More
information about WellMed can be accessed at http://www.wellmed.com.