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Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSMTV) and Fifth Floor Effects (5FX) Today Announce the Release of iARC™ and iARCmedia™, Interactive USB Based Educational Tools for the Healthcare Industry.

iARC™ is a powerful, interactive electronic educational tool using USB storage technology, combined with a revolutionary new "portable interactive storage" interface.

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 15, 2003 -- Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSMTV) and Fifth Floor Effects (5FX) today announce the release of iARC™ and iARCmedia™, their USB based “Portable Interactive Storage” device and kiosk based delivery system. “iARC™ is a powerful, interactive electronic tool using USB storage technology, combined with a revolutionary new "portable interactive storage" interface. Imagine attending a conference or trade show and walking away with PDF’s, brochures, bi-directional contact information, multimedia content and more. iARC™ will serve the event/ symposia marketplace while also raising the bar as an effective educational delivery tool that will continue driving a positive ROI,” says Paul Frantellizzi, Director of Sales and Marketing for Mount Sinai’s School of Medicine. iARC™ has an Internet based back end interface for instantly and automatically updating content and information on any web connected machine – it is easy to use, scalable and offers complete demographic analysis.

“Our iARCmedia™ system is a USB media based kiosk system that enables users to leave events with interactive media (movie trailers, concert footage/ songs, lectures, promotions and links to event sponsor web sites) all playable from the same intuitive and easy to use interface,” says Frederick S. Bobrow, Director of Mount Sinai’s Educational Technology for Continuing Medical Education. iARC™ will premiere at the XXI Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium on November 12, 2003 - jointly sponsored by the Chemotherapy Foundation, The Page & William Black Post-Graduate School and the Division of Medical Oncology of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

About: Mount Sinai School of Medicine (www.mssmtv.org)

MSSMTV is the Mount Sinai School of Medicine's interactive distance learning program for continuing medical education. It encompasses live and archived streaming broad and narrowband video content; interactive on line quizzes and surveys; topic specific discussion forums; private and public e-mailing and a repository for all CME content. Within their mission to repurpose previously transitory CME events, MSSMTV presents these programs on a continuous basis, 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Mount Sinai currently produces over 240 hours of accredited medical grand rounds, over 168 hours of nursing education CEU's and dozens of major symposiums and workshops for live exhibition. We are actively disseminating and reproducing these programs utilizing the Internet and CD ROM to create what may be the most prolific media rich CME resource available to health care providers worldwide. In addition to hosting a wealth of high quality content, is Mount Sinai's experience as the most technologically advanced multimedia production service in medical education. Featuring a network level production facility; corporate level programmers, award-winning technology architects and industry leading event producers, MSSMTV surpasses the academic standard.

About: 5FX (www.5fx.com)

5FX (Fifth Floor Effects) is a leading technology provider of Web and Multimedia Based CME solutions for enterprises who want to automate and streamline their CME delivery and user evaluation / testing process using Internet technology. Full CME services including accreditation in collaboration with partner Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The award winning staff @ 5FX, combined with proven, flexible industry and cross-industry solutions, enable companies to lower CME unit costs dramatically while broadening their reach to the health care community. 5FX offers customizable solutions for every aspect of event and media production and distribution, while maintaining a full range of equipment and software for all formats. The following is a small sample of services that are provided:

• CME Web development, online testing, and automated certificate fulfillment.
• Capturing, editing and archiving all live or scripted content.
• Hosting, duplicating, and distributing via Internet; as well as CD, DVD, VHS, Audio CD, and more…
• Web Based Design, web based (flash) promotions.
• Live multimedia staging, script writing, AV preparation and graphic design.

For further information contact:
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
TEL 800.965.4539 FAX 208.774.3584
e-mail protected from spam bots / www.5fx.com

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