June 7, 2004 Yamatake Health Monitoring in Japan
YAMATAKE TO DELIVER HEALTH HERO NETWORK PLATFORM IN JAPAN
Health Hero Network and Yamatake Sign Licensing Agreement
Mountain View, CA – June 7, 2004 – Health Hero Network, Inc., the developer of award-winning technology solutions for remote health monitoring, today announced that Yamatake Corporation will use the Health Buddy® system to design and build a patient monitoring system for use in Japan.
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. Japanese patients will respond to questions customized for multiple specific health conditions including senior wellness, diabetes, and heart failure. In addition to educational reinforcement and behavior modification, the Yamatake system will allow health care providers to collect and monitor patients’ vital measurements using various home medical devices.
Yamatake, with nearly a century of industry-leading experience in Japan’s automation industry, will also create Japanese health management programs-sets of questions and answers based on standard practice guidelines which include educational reinforcement and reminders to help patients better manage their own care-to prevent the worsening of chronic disease. To create the Japanese programs, Yamatake will use the Health Hero Network Care Composer™ software, a robust content development tool that enables health management program development with dynamic branching logic, flexible question taxonomy and the ability to collect variable patient responses. Yamatake will provide strategic planning, implementation, and training services to its health care clients.
“By using the Health Hero technology platform to design a specific disease management system for Japan, we have the opportunity to improve Japanese health care and extend our solutions to improve the quality of life in Japan,” commented Yoshinori Shiote, Director Health Care Business Development Dept. of Yamatake. “This agreement will result in a flexible, customizable option for disease management in Japan.”
Earlier this month, Health Hero Network partnered with Sananet for its first international program in the Netherlands, focused on providing disease management for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.
“We are pleased to work with Yamatake to bring a chronic care solution based on the Health Buddy system to Japan,” noted Geoffrey Clapp, Health Hero Network CTO/COO. “Health Hero Network’s relationship with Yamatake reflects our commitment to extending our technology solutions for health monitoring to the global market.”
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
About Yamatake Corporation
For over 90 years, Yamatake has been providing innovative solutions in the fields of process automation, building automation, and factory automation. With their R&D and nine manufacturing facilities, Yamatake pioneers new technologies in measurement and control to provide state-of-the-art systems and products that can boost productivity, safety and convenience while reducing energy usage and running costs. The company is also applying its unique technologies to the development of new businesses in the fields of energy conservation, assisted care for the elderly, food safety and agriculture. The Yamatake Group employs approximately 7,100 persons worldwide and had sales of about $1.4 billion (USD) in 2003. Yamatake has strengthened its health care business in recent years with the creation of its Safety Service Center, Inc., which runs a medical emergency dispatch service for the Group.
