Healia: Health Search Engine Selected by the Veterans Health Administration

Bellevue, WA - June 6, 2006 - Healia, Inc. announced today that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the nation's largest integrated health care system, has selected the Healia health search engine to power search for the redesigned MyHealtheVet Website that was released last week. With access to Healia, MyHealtheVet Website visitors and the more than 100,000 registered users of the MyHealtheVet personal health record can easily find high quality health information from multiple sources including content from the VHA, third-party publishers, and the Web.

"People are increasingly responsible for health decision-making and there is a lot of unreliable and deceptive health information on the Web. Healia is available to help users find the highest quality and personalized information," said Tom Eng, Chairman of Healia, Inc. "The VHA is widely recognized as one of the leading adopters of innovative technologies to improve healthcare quality and to promote healthy lifestyles. During this Memorial Day time period, Healia is honored to be able to offer its technology to help our nation’s veterans find the information they need to stay healthy and recover from illness."

Search engines are a critical resource for online "healthseekers" with 81 percent of them reporting using a search engine first to find health information. However, the major search engines provide many generic hits, which are often of questionable quality. Poor quality health information may result in inappropriate health decisions, unhealthy behaviors, wasted clinician time, and reduced worker productivity.

Healia employs patent-pending technology to ensure high quality results, to categorize Web pages so users can finely filter results, and to prompt users with alternative search terms to help them search more accurately and intelligently. Healia technology can be integrated with any Web application including electronic health records, interactive tools, and portals.

About Healia, Inc.

Healia, Inc. is a privately held company that enhances the capacity of people to find high quality and personally relevant information. The Healia search engine empowers healthcare organizations, Web publishers, and employers to provide high quality and personalized health information and targeted messages to their members, Website visitors, or employees. Product R&D for Healia was supported by a Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Cancer Institute.

Healia is a registered trademark.

Contact:

Martin Levy
Healia, Inc.
Nine Lake Bellevue Dr., #106
Bellevue, WA 98005
Phone: 206 851 7256
media@healia.com

Website: www.healia.com