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HEALTH HERO’S HEALTH BUDDY APPLIANCE NAMED ONE OF “THE BEST PRODUCTS OF 2000″ BY BUSINESSWEEK MAGAZINE
Simple To Use Communication Appliance Designed To Connect Patients With Their Health Care Provider Continues To Receive Industry Accolades

Mountain View, CA - December 13, 2000 - Health Hero Network, Inc. today announced that its Health Buddy® appliance, designed to connect the chronically ill to their care providers, has been recognized as one of “The Best Products of 2000″ by BusinessWeek Magazine. The extremely easy to use in-home communications device was developed as a tool to aid health care professionals deliver, via the Internet, vital health care and disease management services directly to those patients in need.

Health Buddy®, showcased in the December 18th 2000 issue of BusinessWeek, the leading magazine for business professionals, is part of Health Hero’s Internet-based patient management platform designed to keep patients educated, motivated and connected to their health care providers. Through the appliance, patients, typically seniors, have an effortless way of receiving and responding to structured content from their nurse/care managers on a daily basis. This daily interaction enables care managers to identify potential problems sooner while facilitating patient education for self-management and behavioral modification, a practice that has been shown to increase patient satisfaction while reducing hospitalizations and emergency room (ER) visits.

“This important recognition by BusinessWeek highlights a year where using the Internet to deliver health care moved from a great new idea to one of necessity,” said Steve Brown, CEO of Health Hero Network. “Within this growing market the Health Buddy and Health Hero platform has proven to be a vital tool in the delivery of these services, especially to seniors with the most need for care.”

Health Hero provides its platform and Health Buddy® appliance, to managed care organizations, HMOs, Hospitals/IDNs, Provider Networks and Disease Management companies seeking an efficient and effective solution to remotely monitor and manage patients with a variety of chronic conditions. In a meta-analysis of data from three customer sites deploying Health Hero’s platform for Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), the Health Hero solution has been shown to reduce utilization of hospital and ER services by 69% and to reduce costs by more than $8000 per patient per year (PPPY).

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.