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35TH PATENT AWARDED TO HEALTH HERO NETWORK, INC. DEFINES TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM FOR PATIENT COMMUNICATION VIA TELEVISION

Mountain View, CA - November 8, 2000 - Health Hero Network, Inc., announced today it was just awarded a patent on the connection of medical devices to television sets and providing interactive feedback to patients. Health Hero provides a technology platform and application services that enable healthcare providers to communicate with patients at home and monitor health status.

The patent, 6,144,837, which issued on November 7, 2000, is entitled “Method and apparatus for interactively monitoring a physiological condition and for interactively providing health-related information.” The patent is a continuation of patent number 5,601,435 filed on Nov. 4, 1994 and also assigned to Health Hero Network, Inc.

“We focused on developing technologies that work for people who need care the most, including elderly patients with chronic illness, and the people who care for them” said Steve Brown, CEO of Health Hero. “This patent will facilitate our expansion into the interactive television market through strategic alliances and licensing arrangements with television manufacturers, interactive television network operators, and medical device companies.”

The company’s technology platform includes web-based services for sending personalized health questions to patients and viewing patient responses, and application services that enable caregivers to analyze data from patient populations. Patients currently receive messages and send information to care managers using the Health Buddy® communication appliance. The recent patent is part of the company’s strategy to extend its remote patient monitoring platform from dedicated health appliances to interactive television and other devices.

About Health Hero Network
Health Hero Network, Inc., based in Mountain View, California, develops and markets the industry leading technology platform for remote patient communications, monitoring, and care management. The Health Hero platform includes a technology platform for remote patient monitoring and Internet-based care management and research application services. The Health Hero® solution consists of web-based tools for caregivers and the Health Buddy® appliance, iCare Desktop™, a web based patient management application for health care professionals, patient interfaces such as the Health Buddy appliance, a secure data center acting as the repository for application services and collected data, and content for over a dozen major chronic diseases. Health Hero Network licenses its platform to medical technology and services companies seeking a technology blueprint proven to enable better chronic care with lower costs to the healthcare system. Health Hero Network technology is protected by over 40 issued U.S. patents. For more information about Health Hero, visit www.healthhero.com.