NewsRX leverages new tech platform for its new product
18 July 2001, 1 pm GMT
NewsRx, a global provider of scientific news and leader in life science databases and health news, has leveraged its technology platform to create a new media company, VerticalNews.
NewsRx is the leading provider of life science databases and daily and weekly health news.
VerticalNews' two year goal is 3,000 articles each week. The articles will appear in a variety of print and electronic titles.
VerticalNews' capacity is driven by NewsRx propriety artificial intelligence systems: Component Aggregation Technology (CAT) and Journalist Assisted Technology (JAT).
Artificial intelligence is the ability of a computer to perform activities normally thought to require intelligence. CAT and JAT assist human journalists in performing vast publishing and news reporting tasks.
"Producing this quantity of material without such A.I. data droid systems would be comparable to space exploration minus the rocket," said NewsRx director of business development and technology, Alan Henderson. CAT and JAT were developed over the last eleven years under his direction at NewsRx.
"The future of information distribution clearly depends on advancing technology. What we have here may be the Gutenberg Press of the twenty-first century," he said.
Over the next two years, NewsRx is expanding beyond healthcare through VerticalNews, which will create multiple new periodicals containing over 3,000 articles each week serving most industry sectors.
NewsRx currently produces 300 articles weekly in its numerous titles, including Cancer Weekly, Stem Cell Week, Drug Week, Biotech Week, and Health & Medicine Week. The VerticalNews model is a spin-off from the platform used to create NewsRx.net.
All VerticalNews print and electronic titles and articles will be marketed through current agreements with strategic partners at major publishing companies, current NewsRx subscribers, and direct marketing campaigns.
In the first expansion phase, currently underway, VerticalNews is creating 200 additional weekly articles on healthcare management, managed care, nursing, bioinformatics, health information technology, and hospital operational topics, expanding total NewsRx output to 500 articles per week.