European Internet health market heats up as leading German physician Internet portal retains US-based Relamatrix Group to develop global strategic partnerships.

NEW YORK, NY / December 10/ PRNEWSWIRE / -- Relamatrix Group, Inc, a global healthcare business development firm, announced today that it has been retained by the leading physician Internet portal in Germany, doccheck.com, to develop and implement its global strategic partnering initiative.

Frank Antwerpes, President, doccheck.com, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Antwerpes & Partner AG, stated: "We retained Relamatrix Group because of their extensive network of personal relationships with key healthcare decisions makers from New York to Sydney, and their dedication to finding and facilitating deals at the highest level. We believe the Relamatrix Group will position our portal to capitalize on the explosion of the global Internet health market in Europe."

The European market for Internet health ventures is largely unexploited, when compared to the level of consumer involvement and investment dollars that flow through such ventures in the United States. In Germany, a market with 360,000 physicians, only 40,000 are estimated to be on the web. Half are registered users of doccheck.com; the upside growth potential is therefore staggering. The European healthcare business-to-business market is projected to become the next battleground.

"We were seeking to represent the leading Internet Health property in Europe and doccheck.com is that property. With half of all German physicians that use the Internet using doccheck.com to gain access to password protected information, and six additional countries being launched in January, they are positioned to dominate the healthcare business-to-business space in Europe," stated Mr. Strier. "Increasingly, leading US healthcare portals are looking abroad for expansion opportunities to secure their global position in the Internet health space. WebMD moved into Japan with Softbank, and the financiers behind Medscape purchased a stake in a major healthcare portal in France. Doccheck.com has the foundation to lead this market and we have already begin discussions with the leading US portals to identify the best partner."

About Relamatrix Group, Inc.

Formed in 1995, Relamatrix Group, Inc. is a privately held, global healthcare business development firm with headquarters in New York and offices in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia. The Company (www.relamatrix.com) is uniquely focused on identifying and facilitating high-level strategic partnerships and contracts for healthcare vendors, Internet healthcare ventures, and medical device manufacturers worldwide. The Company’s Corporate Ambassador Program, a global team of prominent former senior healthcare executives, represents a collective rolodex of thousands of personal relationships with key healthcare decision-makers. The firm’s Global Medical Device Division provides a turnkey solution to foreign medical device manufacturers from FDA & quality management experts to public relations services to distributor network & foreign market development. For more information, please call Keith B. Strier, President & COO, at 212-608-6100.