iHealthSpot Inc. Partners with Practice Builders to Enhance e-Marketing, Promotion of Physician Practices

December 16, 2006 (PRLEAP.COM) Health News
(Margate, Fla.) - iHealthSpot Inc., a leading Web development company for medical professionals, announces a partnership with Practice Builders, the nation's leading private-practice healthcare marketing firm.

Under the agreement, iHealthSpot will be the exclusive provider of Internet marketing and website services to Practice Builders' client base. Practice Builders is a division of Ascend Media of Overland Park, Ks. and has helped over 100,000 U.S. medical and dental practices effectively grow their practices with the cases they prefer.

iHealthSpot's MD Presence™ website solution enables doctors and dentists to have a full-featured website, complete with customized designs, online communication tools, patient education and the ability to personally update without outside programmers. This makes MD Presence™ the ideal e-marketing solution for Practice Builders, which specializes in the design and implementation of customized turnkey marketing programs for healthcare practices. In its new partnership, iHealthSpot will become Practice Builders' exclusive provider of e-marketing services, including website design and building, online communications, search engine optimization and online marketing.

"We are excited to be partnering with Practice Builders and believe the teaming of the two companies will create a formidable force in the marketplace for practice marketing," said Mary Hall, CEO of iHealthSpot. "By leveraging Practice Builders' vast experience in developing and implementing practice marketing programs with iHealthSpot's expertise in website development, we are able to maximize the expert marketing and management services that both businesses provide."

Nina Grant, Vice President of Client Services at Practice Builders, commented, "The philosophy of iHealthSpot and MD Presence™ fits hand-in-glove with Practice Builders' mission. Since 1979, we have become the nationally recognized experts in helping healthcare clients with a full menu of marketing and management services, remaining cutting-edge in our techniques with changing times. With the advent of avid healthcare marketing on the Internet, we needed a stronger approach on behalf of our clients and we believe iHealthSpot's MD Presence™ will be the premier Web product for medical marketing. Our partnership will allow us to offer a full suite of e-marketing services that will be second-to-none in the industry."

About iHealthSpot Inc.

iHealthSpot Inc. is a Web development, marketing technology company dedicated to providing turnkey website and technology solutions to the medical industry. The company's core product focuses on enabling medical practices to market themselves with a full-featured website that includes everything from online communication tools and easy updating to patient education.

iHealthSpot, Inc. is a subsidiary of Action Online Technologies, Inc., a results-oriented technology company specializing in helping clients leverage the power of the Internet and other interactive technologies to generate the highest possible returns on investment. Action Online Technologies, Inc.'s subsidiary Action Online, LLC is a leading provider of Web technology solutions to the hospitality industry.

About Practice Builders/Ascend Media Practice Builders of Orange, Calif. is the nation's leading private-practice healthcare marketing firm specializing in the development and implementation of customized turnkey marketing solutions for the healthcare industry. Practice Builders is a division of Ascend Media of Overland Park, Ks., which produces magazines, journals, conferences, educational resources, event media, trade shows and other services. In addition to medical media, Ascend Media produces specialty publications and services for the food and beverage, gaming, packaging and other industries.

To find out more about Practice Builders and iHealthSpot Inc. and MD Presence™ visit: http://practicebuilders.com and http://www.iHealthSpot.com

To arrange media interviews or for more detailed information about MD Presence™ please contact Mary Hall at mailto:mhall@ihealthspot.com or 800-403-1502. To arrange media interviews or for more detailed information about Practice Builders, please contact Steve Smith at ssmith@practicebuilders.com or call 800-679-1200.