The group's principal activity is to operate telecommunications, e-commerce and other strategically linked businesses. The group provides links between healthcare providers and payers through its subsidiary electronic network systems, a business-to-business healthcare e-commerce company. It provides a full-cycle suite of payer-driven services and products known as health-e-network that establishes a transaction processing environment for payers, physicians and other healthcare providers, including hospitals and laboratories. The group's principal customers consist of healthcare providers, such as physicians, hospitals, clinics and billing services and third-party payers, such as indemnity insurers, managed care organizations, preferred provider organizations, claims submitters and state governmental agencies.