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Reed Group Appoints Jon Seymour, MD, President, Guidelines
Medical Software and Data Expert to Develop New MDGuidelines Web Portal

WESTMINSTER, Colorado -- (September 10, 2008) -- Reed Group (www.reedgroup.com) announced today that it has appointed Jon Seymour, MD, as president, Guidelines. Dr. Seymour will be responsible for developing MDGuidelines, a powerful new Internet healthcare information platform that will be built around data from The Medical Disability Advisor, Reed Group’s leading reference on disability and returnto- work durations.

“With 23 years of experience in applying medical and technical knowledge to digital clinical and educational tools, Dr. Seymour is well-suited to advancing the creation and growth of MDGuidelines,” says Reed Group Chief Executive Officer Michael Sayre. “A natural change agent, he has spent much of his career championing software-based decision-support platforms as the future of medical knowledge transfer.”

Before joining Reed, Dr. Seymour was executive vice president and chief medical officer at Wolters Kluwer Health, the world’s largest medical publisher. Areas under his direction included medical informatics for point-of-care, point-of-learning, electronic medical records, e-prescribing, disease management, pharma-focused data and integrating enterprise applications that integrate content and tools into healthcare delivery networks and medical information systems.

Dr. Seymour also has held positions as president/CEO/co-founder of Fave Media, a search and internet video venture; president/CEO of Clinical Tools Business Unit for Wolters Kluwer Health; and chairman/CEO/co-founder of Gold Standard, where he pioneered the development of content-based medical software for clinicians. Dr. Seymour received his MD from the University of Florida College of Medicine. He also holds a BA in Physics from Duke University.

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