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HEALTH HERO NETWORK INVITED TO DEMONSTRATE AT WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON AGING
Health Buddy® System Showcased As Transforming Technology Empowering America’s Seniors to Manage Chronic Conditions from Home

Washington, DC - December 12, 2005 — Health Hero Network is demonstrating its home health monitoring technology today at the once-a-decade White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA). The hands-on technology exhibition is hosted by the Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) to show technologies available to help meet the demands of the rapidly growing population of aging Americans and their caregivers. Health Hero Network will demonstrate how its Health Buddy® system can transform care for seniors with chronic illnesses by coaching and educating them to manage their conditions at home and enabling care providers a daily connection to check on their patients.

Health Hero Network develops the Health Buddy system, which provides coaching, education and monitoring for patients with chronic conditions. A countertop appliance called the Health Buddy appliance is used in the patients’ home to provide a daily dialog of questions about the patient’s condition, as well as reminders and information for improved self-care. Care providers access the responses on a secure website, so they can monitor multiple patients simultaneously and intervene early if a condition is at risk of deteriorating.

“The White House Conference on Aging and the Center for Aging Services Technologies are calling attention to a looming crisis in this country – how to care for the largest population of older people the country has ever known,” said Steve Brown, CEO of Health Hero Network. “As the population of older people grows, so does the number of people with chronic conditions. Health Hero Network is acting now to address that issue before it becomes a crisis. We’re improving quality of chronic care by helping patients manage their own conditions, while also helping physicians care for the growing number of people with chronic illness.”

The Health Buddy system is currently being used in disease management, government, home care, hospital, Medicare, Medicaid, and research markets.

Health Hero Network will be showing its Health Buddy system at the CAST Imagine Pavilion (Booth #7) at the WHCoA on December 12-13, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

About CAST
The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) is leading the national charge to develop and deploy technologies that can improve the aging experience in America. CAST has four focus areas: 1) driving a national vision of how technologies can improve the quality of life for seniors while reducing healthcare costs; 2) accelerating technology R&D pilots with seniors to prove out this vision, 3) advocating to remove barriers to the rapid commercialization of proven solutions; and 4) promoting national dialogue about standards to insure interoperability and widespread access to aging services technologies. Established in 2003, CAST (www.agingtech.org) has become a national coalition of more than 400 technology companies, aging services organizations, research universities, and government representatives working together under the auspices of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (www.aahsa.org). The members of AAHSA serve 2 million people every day through mission-driven, not-for-profit organizations.

About Health Hero Network
Health Hero Network develops and markets the Health Buddy® system for health improvement. The Health Buddy system serves as the interface between patients at home and care providers, facilitating patient education and monitoring of chronic conditions. The system includes monitoring technologies, clinical information databases, Internet-enabled decision support tools, health management programs and content development tools. Through increased communication, behavior modification, and prevention, the Health Buddy system improves the quality of care. Based in Mountain View, California, Health Hero Network’s systems are protected by over 55 issued US patents. http://www.healthhero.com.