Nstein's Solution to "Monitor" World Health

2004-01-06

Nstein and Health Canada Collaborate on a Multilingual Early Warning System for Monitoring Potential Public Health Risks and Threats such as SARS.

Montreal, January 6, 2004 - Nstein Technologies Inc. (TSX-V:EIN), the leader in software solutions for managing and retrieving unstructured information, today announced that it has signed an important agreement with Health Canada to spearhead a new Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) platform for monitoring potential public health risks and threats around the world. GPHIN is an initiative developed by Health Canada in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).

The mission of the GPHIN platform is to monitor, aggregate and disseminate health information to the international public health community in order to rapidly provide an early warning of potential public health risks or threats such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), or any potential chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear related public health risks or threats. Nstein's technology solution will power the system, providing 24/7 real-time monitoring, aggregating and translating information of public health significance in six languages (English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic) for dissemination to the public health community worldwide.

"We are especially proud to team up with Health Canada on such a crucial project with this international scope," stated Mario Girard, President and Chief Operating Officer of Nstein. "Our technology solution will be the 'eyes and brain' of the platform, immediately alerting the GPHIN team and its international partners to potential dangers to public health. This is a collaborative effort that opens the doors to other agreements and generates substantial revenues for Nstein."

Laurent Proulx, Nstein's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, adds: "Public health is one of the major areas threatened by current world events. The power to constantly analyze international information in order to rapidly detect any potential risks is the strike force that Nstein's technology is providing to the GPHIN platform". He concludes: "This early warning system represents a significant advance for the Canadian government and future users, and is a model that can be adapted to other areas such as national security, competitive intelligence and much more."

About Nstein Technologies 

Nstein Technologies develops and markets content management indexing software and solutions that solve mission-critical business problems. Nstein maximizes the value of its customer's information assets within the e-publishing, financial services, legal, and homeland security sectors. Nstein's organization, navigation and retrieval software creates immediate and substantial ROI via significant new revenue streams, productivity and efficiency gains. Nstein is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with sales offices in Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington DC and New York. Nstein is a public company listed on the TSX Canadian Venture Exchange (EIN). For further information please visit www.nstein.com.

About GPHIN

The Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), developed by Health Canada in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), is a secure, Internet-based "early warning" system. GPHIN is used by the global public health community in its efforts to minimize health risks by developing appropriate risk management, control and prevention measures and responses.

GPHIN gathers and disseminates preliminary, relevant information on disease outbreaks and other public health events on "real-time", multilingual, 24 hour a day, 7 day a week basis.

For further information please visit: http://gphin-rmisp.hc-sc.gc.ca.

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