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Salu, Inc. and Ziment Announce Partnership To Offer Online Market Research Participation To Specialty Physicians
Agreement Marks Continued Expansion of Salu's Specialty-Focused Business Hubs

PORTLAND, Ore. August, 2000 - Salu, Inc. the only vertical B2B e-health company building highly customized, specialty-focused business hubs that address the unique needs of physician specialists, today announced a partnership with Ziment, a leading national strategic marketing research consultancy. The partnership involves the use of Ziment's new service called WebSurveyMD.com, an online panel of physicians through which primary research to assess physician awareness, attitudes and behaviors is conducted. As a result of the partnership and the recent launch of the service on Salu.net, physician members are now able to easily and conveniently participate in online surveys that influence healthcare policies, products and services.

"Ziment represents another great addition to the Salu hubs," said Jim Steeb, Salu President and CEO. "This partnership is further demonstration of the hub's ability to easily integrate new services that meet the business needs of specialty physicians and their practices. Through Ziment, our physician members now have a convenient, seamless method of participating in well-respected market surveys and an additional source of revenue."

The agreement will allow Salu's physicians to easily and conveniently participate in online surveys that influence key decision- and policy-making within their specialties. In addition, Salu members that choose to participate in the surveys will be paid a cash honoraria for their time.

"Salu has done a great job bringing specialty physicians online," said Howard Ziment, Managing Director of Ziment. "Our partnership will allow us to efficiently secure participation from communities of specialists that had been previously more difficult to reach. With this partnership, Ziment will now be able to offer more comprehensive and accurate research than ever before."

About Ziment, Inc.
Ziment, based in New York City, is among the largest market research organizations in the nation, and is an industry leader in physician interviewing, having surveyed more than 20,000 physicians in 1999 alone. The company maintains international research capabilities through The Research Alliance, a strategic partnership of full-service, owner-operated firms that combines the advantages of working with a network with the benefit of partnering with firms.

Ziment developed WebSurveyMD.com to allow rapid, accurate survey research among larger samples of physicians than traditional survey research methods allow. WebSurveyMD.com is an online tool for using primary research to assess physician awareness, attitudes and behaviors. The new online service features the world's largest dedicated research panel of physicians.

About Salu
Salu's approach is based on the belief that doctors differ greatly based on specialty. Salu has therefore developed specialty-focused, full-service business hubs that provide customized, Web-based business services that save specialty practices time and money. Salu's focused specialty areas include allergy, neurology, dermatology, physical medicine, reproductive medicine and cardiology.

Within these focused specialties, Salu provides physicians with a series of free core Internet services, customized per specialty, that Web-enable the practice, allowing it to communicate and interact with colleagues, patients and partners via the Internet. Today, Salu has over 55 percent of the country's office-based allergists, 17 percent of US office-based cardiologists, 17 percent of physiatrists and 15 percent of neurologists. Salu is rapidly adding business partners that meet the specific business needs of its focused specialties.

Salu also has agreements with premier national medical societies including the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Each Salu Hub is designed to meet the business exchange needs of specific physician specialists, their patients and the partners who can most efficiently serve them.

Salu is based in Portland, Ore with offices in Sacramento, Calif. Potential partners and interested physician specialists can learn more about Salu by visiting http://www.salu.net or calling 888-288-SALU.

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