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[March 16, 2005]

MedLink VPN to Develop EHR Solution in Conjunction With Apollo

ISLANDIA, N.Y. --(Business Wire)-- March 16, 2005 -- Western Media Group Corporation (OTCBB: WMGC) announced today that pursuant to its agreement with Apollo Health Street Limited, a leading health information solutions provider, MedLink VPN (a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Media Group Corporation) has chosen Apollo Health Street Limited as its technology services partner for the MedLink EHR (Electronic Health Record) LaserCard which will be launched as part of the MedLink's VPN suite of services. The agreement called for a multi phase development of the product that will involve increased development and enhancements including an expanded dedicated team of developers, as well as customer support for the product.


Konrad Kim, Chief Technology Officer of Western Media Group stated, "We are very excited at the opportunity to work with Apollo Health Street Limited and utilize their wealth of expertise and knowledge on medical information technology. The additional development to the MedLink VPN EHR will enable the MedLink VPN to compete on a national level as a national solution to the EHR standards being set in place by the recent Bush administration mandate to centralize and standardize data as a national EHR format."

The LaserCard optical memory card developed by LaserCard Corporation (Nasdaq: LCRD) and offered in conjunction with the MedLink VPN offers a secure and cost effective solution to bridge the information gap. Patients carry their own electronic patient record or dataset to the participating clinic, physician or provider without additional communication hardware or file transfer costs. In any health care setting, the optical memory card can transport secure, partial or complete electronic patient records, helping to expedite care, reduce costs, and perhaps save lives.

About Apollo Health Street Limited:

Apollo Health Street Limited is an end-to-end healthcare focused services company, catering to health information needs of US based Physician groups, Hospitals and Insurers. It is backed by the renowned Apollo hospitals group, headquartered in India whose integrated healthcare network involves 35 hospitals, 40 clinics and 100 plus pharmacy outlets, a workforce of 16000 including 4000 physicians.

The IT services and solutions offerings of the company includes building software applications, package implementation, healthcare informatics and IT consulting services for prominent healthcare companies globally. The BPO offerings of the company include services for hospitals and physicians namely Revenue Cycle Management, Accounts Receivable Follow-up, Medical Coding and Medical Transcription. The service offerings for Payers are customized and include voice and non-voice processes.

Apollo Health Street Limited is a 450+ employee organization, operating out of Hyderabad, India and New York in the USA. Backed by some of the doyens of the healthcare industry, Apollo Health Street Limited has grown by more than 100% in the last three years.

About Western Media Group Corporation:

Western Media Group is a holding company for a systems integration company, K-Rad Consulting LLC, and Med-Link, USA Inc. and Med-Link VPN Inc. (collectively "Med-Link"). Med-Link's principal product is the MedLink VPN. The MedLink VPN is a virtual private network, which allows subscribing doctors and others to securely communicate and to remotely access and retrieve patient records, lab results, X-Rays, CAT Scans and other information. Additional information about Western Media may be found at http://www.wmgcorp.com.

Forward Looking Statements

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