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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SELECTS IMARKUP FOR MED SCHOOL STUDENTS AND FACULTY

Early Adopter No Longer Has to Wait to Enhance Electronic Curriculum

San Diego, CA – July 19, 2001 – iMarkup Solutions Inc., (www.imarkup.com), a provider of powerful solutions for users collaborating about digital content, today announced that iMarkup™ Workgroup Server has been selected for medical school students and faculty at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (CWRU). Ranked by US News and World Report as one of the top overall medical schools in the country and one of the nation’s leading independent research universities, CWRU was the first medical school in the U.S. to provide laptop computers to all its students. In keeping with its history of providing leading edge tools that support faculty-student interaction, CWRU will begin deploying iMarkup’s flagship product with incoming medical students in August.

Although its origins date back to 1826, the university in its present form is the result of the 1967 federation of the Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University. CWRU counts thirteen Nobel Prize Winners among its current or former faculty or alumni, including Albert A. Michelson, the first American to win the prize in the sciences. The most recent Nobel Prize winner to graduate from the CWRU School of Medicine is Ferid Murad, M.D., and Ph.D. who shared the Nobel Prize in 1998. David Satcher, M.D., and Ph.D., another famous alumni, is currently the U.S. Surgeon General. Already a leading educational institution for more than a century, in 1952 the School of Medicine initiated the most advanced medical curriculum in the country, integrating the basic and clinical sciences, focusing on organ systems and featuring an introduction to patients in the first year.

In 1993 Case Western Reserve University began converting 6,000 pages of typewritten lecture notes into equivalent electronic documents and providing laptops to incoming freshman year medical students. Two years later, with the acceptance and growth of the World Wide Web, CWRU again displayed its early adopter orientation by converting lecture notes and other documents to HTML. As the Web advanced and HTML editors became more sophisticated, new projects emerged. Since 1996 CWRU has been researching and waiting for a tool that would enable its students to markup these HTML pages in real time.

PROVIDING A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Developed to address the needs of users seeking tools for marking up and collaborating about digital content, iMarkup Workgroup Server enables users to apply annotations to actual “live” Web pages, then share those pages and annotations with others. In introducing its server product, the company made the award-winning technology of the iMarkup client available to groups. “An article about iMarkup in PC magazine caught my attention – it sounded like iMarkup Workgroup Server was the product we had been waiting for,” commented David Pilasky, Manager and Network Administrator for Biomedical Information Technology at Case Western Reserve University. With the support of his dean, Pilasky evaluated Workgroup Server as a tool to give medical students the ability to make notes, markups and annotations online, in real time, rather than write on hardcopy notes. “Addressing the needs of an institution as renowned as Case Western Reserve University is gratifying,” remarked John O’Brien, president and CEO of iMarkup Solutions. “We are pleased to assist CWRU with improving its students’ ability to learn – and to provide a tool that enhances its electronic curriculum,” he commented.

Concurrent with the implementation of iMarkup Workgroup Server, CWRU is installing wireless access points in its lecture halls so that students can go online, in class, and access the electronic curriculum. Medical students will also take advantage of the iMarkup Organizer to create categories while listening to lectures and note specific areas that they may be subsequently tested on. Later they will be able to go to iMarkup and select all categories containing the test questions they need to study. “We have no doubt that iMarkup will simplify and make studying more efficient – and give our students a competitive advantage,” stated Pilasky.

The volume of medical information is growing exponentially each day and the CWRU medical faculty relies on technology to facilitate teaching – and make it easier for students to learn. According to Pilasky, “We have very technologically literate faculty and students and are always looking for new resources. In return they push those resources beyond our expectations. We believe that will be the situation with iMarkup and we are pleased to have finally found the tool that we have been waiting five years to have.”


About iMarkup Solutions

iMarkup Solutions (www.imarkup.com) provides powerful solutions for users collaborating and communicating about digital content, without commanding changes to their existing infrastructure. These real-time web-based productivity tools enable end-users to communicate, annotate, organize and collaborate over the Web. iMarkup Solutions continually develops tools that enable users to work together more effectively by improving productivity, increasing their efficiency and accelerating information flow. The iMarkup product line includes the iMarkup Client and iMarkup Workgroup Server with its Customization and Branding Option. The company is privately held and is headquartered in San Diego, California. For more information, call 877-MARKUP1 or visit www.imarkup.com.

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