February 22, 2005 Home Health Monitoring in Japan
HEALTH HERO NETWORK CEO STEVE BROWN TO ADDRESS ASIA-EUROPE MEETING IN LONDON
Home Health Monitoring Pioneer to Demonstrate how the Health Buddy® System Is Being Globally Adopted to Improve Chronic Care
London – February 22, 2005 – Nations around the world can use similar approaches – including deploying home health monitoring technologies for people with chronic illness – in dealing with the challenge of aging populations, Health Hero Network CEO Steve Brown will tell an audience of European and Asian government and business leaders today.
Brown will deliver his address, “Advancing Chronic Care with eHealth Technologies in Japan: Proving Global Solutions for an Aging Population” at the annual Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Conference on eCommerce in London. Health Hero Network markets the Health Buddy® system, a comprehensive technology solution for home health monitoring of people with chronic illness. In his speech, Brown will compare the implementation of home health monitoring in Japan in partnership with Yamatake and the deployment of the Health Buddy system in the Netherlands in partnership with Sananet.
“The need to improve chronic care for aging populations is driving very different health care systems to adopt very similar technology solutions,” Brown will say in his speech. “The Health Buddy system has led to dramatic improvements in the health of chronically ill patients in the U.S. and reductions in cost, and our partners are starting to experience similar successes in their initial efforts in their countries.”
ASEM is a multilateral forum for action-orientated debate between the EU Member States and Asian partner countries: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The objective of this conference is to identify ways of increasing trade and investment through the use of online technologies.
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
