TACTILE SHIPS MEDICAL EXTENSIONS FOR NEWTON 2.0

San Francisco, California-January 9, 1996-Fullfilling the need for an
inexpensive medical organizer on the Newton platform, Tactile Systems,
Inc. shipped it's "Medical Extensions for Newton 2.0" at the 1996 MacWorld
San Francisco show. Tactile's Medical Extensions adds clinically relevent
fields to the Apple MessagePad's built in Names file. Using the software
any person in the names file can have medical information recorded.
Diagnosis, prescription, hospitalization, referral, health maintenance and
many other clincally relevant pieces of information can be captured.
Hospitals can also be added to the Names file with their relevant phone
numbers for admissions, laboratory, emergency room, etc.

Medical Extensions is Tactile System's first introduction into the off the
shelf software arena. The company had previously been devoted to custom
programming. Tactile's prior projects included a Newton client to a
national outcomes database for hand therapists, a variance tracker for
critical pathway information used by nurse case managers, a route sales
application, an inventory application and an application used for
construction cost estimating.

Tactile's Medical Extensions forms the heart of Tactile's "Medical
Application Suite" for Newton 2.0. In the development pipeline for
shipment this quarter are a prescription writer, a module to record
laboratory data and a transcription application for recording clinical
notes. "We wanted to give users the choice of deciding what features they
wanted to pay for. By using the approach of a suite of applications we can
appeal to the entry level user as well as the power user." said. Vernon
Huang, MD, co-founder and Medical Director of the one year old company.
"This application is meant to be a memory tool to help the busy clinician
remember the bullet points about their patients. It's not meant to be a
full medical record; that's something else we're working on."

Asked about the product, Robert Bruce, co-founder and Principal Engineer at
Tactile stated "I'm a perfectionist and won't release anything until it's
absolutely finished. Using this modular approach allows me to do that.
Also, we don't tie up a lot of storage and heap memory on users machines
for features that they may not want to use." Because Tactile's Medical
Extensions store data in the built in Names file, meetings and phone calls
to patients, hospitals and consultants can be created and logged with the
functionality that is built into every Newton 2.0 machine.

Tactile's Medical Extensions for Newton 2.0 is available from PDA Direct
and Newton Source as well as directly from Tactile Systems (800-5-NEWTON).
The introductory price is $50 until March 31st, 1996. Purchasers of the
product will also receive a discount coupon for LandWare's "QuickNames
Pro" application.

Tactile Systems is a privately held company with offices in the Denver and
Seattle areas. Tactile develops custom solutions for industry and
healthcare as well as software for healthcare, inventory control and sales
force automation.

Contact:
Vernon W. Huang, MD
Partner/Medical Director
(206)489-0449

Tactile's home page on the World Wide Web:
http://rainbow.rmii.com/~rbruce/tactile.html
 
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