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HEALTH HERO NETWORK INVITED TO CAPITOL HILL TO DEMONSTRATE ITS HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY
Home Health Monitoring Technology Displayed as Example of Future of Health Care
At Tech Demonstration Day on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON, DC – June 8, 2005 – Health Hero Network, Inc. today is demonstrating its new Health Buddy® system on Capitol Hill to show health policy leaders how technologies can improve chronic care by coaching and monitoring patients at home. As one of the few companies invited to participate in the Tech Demonstration Day, Health Hero Network will show how the Health Buddy® system is playing a leading role at the Veterans Administration (VA) in improving quality of care and reducing costs for the VA’s highest risk patients with severe chronic illness. The Health Buddy system will also be included in upcoming landmark Medicare demonstration programs.

The seminar and all-day technology demonstration is hosted by the eHealth Initiative and the Capitol Hill “Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics.” The event is attended by Congressional leaders and government decision makers who are committed to improving the quality of health care.

“Coaching and monitoring patients at home is a key element of transforming and improving chronic care,” said Steve Brown, Health Hero Network’s CEO. “The attendees of today’s event will have the opportunity to see first hand how information technology can enable chronic care improvement by connecting people at home with chronic illness to proactive and preventive healthcare services.”

The eHealth Initiative is a non-profit affiliated organization whose mission is to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology. The Capitol Hill “Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics” is now in its 12th year

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.

HEALTH HERO NETWORK PARTNER SANANET HONORED BY MINISTRY OF HEALTH FOR BEST PRACTICE IN TELEHEALTH USING HEALTH BUDDY SYSTEM
Sananet Invited by Dutch Ministry to Demonstrate solution using Health Hero Network’s Technology at “The Ministerial Conference and Exhibition E-Health 2005, 23-24, Tromso, Norway

Mountain View, CA – May 23, 2005 – Health Hero Network’s Dutch partner Sananet B.V., an eHealth company offering information and communication technology products and services to improve the quality of health and social services in the Netherlands was selected by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) for a best practice project in telemedicine. Sananet was invited to demonstrate their project using Health Hero Network technology at the Ministerial Conference and Exhibition e-health 2005, May 23 and 24 in Tromso, Norway. The Ministerial Conference is a high-level conference and exhibition sponsored by the European Commission to promote advances in health care enabled by information and communications technology (ICT).

Representatives from Sananet will present their experiences and results with remote health monitoring for heart failure patients in Limburg to public health experts and decision makers from the entire European Union. Sananet will demonstrate the Health Buddy® system used in their telemedicine program sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Provincie Limburg which covers Heart Failure patients at the Academic Hospital Maastricht, the Atrium medical center in Heerlen and the Orbis medical and care group in Sittard/Geleen. The technology presented in Tromso will include the Health Buddy® appliance for monitoring and coaching patients with chronic illnesses and web-based decision support tools providing health data and services for care providers.

“In the Netherlands we showed that patients feel more safe and their self efficacy improves significantly after 6 weeks using the Health Buddy ® appliance at their home. The results are very promising for the near future and we expect that more patients with chronic illnesses will receive a Health Buddy ® appliance. In the Utrecht region we developed a telemedicine program which covers COPD sponsored by the Asthma foundation, and there we expect the same results. The selection as a Dutch Best Practice by the Ministry of Health for this Telehealth solution will accelerate the structural embedding of telemedicine programs in the Dutch Healthcare System, “ noted Jan Ramaekers, Sananet CEO. “Sananet is honored to have Health Hero Network as a strategic partner.”

“Around the world, people with chronic conditions have similar needs for coaching and monitoring at home in order to prevent hospitalization and improve the quality of care,” noted Steve Brown, Health Hero Network CEO. “Health Hero Network is honored to partner with leading innovators in Europe to advance chronic care, which is a critical necessity given the growing health needs of an aging population.”

About Sananet
Sananet B.V. offers products and services to enable professionals and patients to use sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) for eHealth. Sananet enables healthcare professionals to link care providers with each other and patient data regardless of time or place, helping to provide efficient relations between different care partners and patients. The simplified communication facilitated by Sananet results in increased quality of care. Sananet’s services include consultancy, network capacity, training and solutions support. http://www.sananet.nl/

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.

Health Hero Network Signs Agreement with McKesson to Bring Telehealth Technology to Home Care Market

Mountain View, CA – July 27, 2004 – Health Hero Network, Inc., the leading innovator of technology solutions for remote health monitoring, reports that McKesson has chosen the Health Buddy® system to launch its new telehealth solution, McKesson Telehealth Advisor™. Health Hero Network and McKesson, the world’s largest healthcare services and information technology company, have signed an agreement whereby McKesson will market and resell the Health Buddy system to the homecare market and provide integration with Horizon Homecare™. The partnership allows McKesson to offer 17,000 nurses and other clinicians relying on Horizon Homecare a new integrated telehealth solution that addresses the strains on our health care system while improving patient quality and care.

“We are extremely excited to work with McKesson, an organization who understands and has a history of streamlining processes and improving quality of patient care while bringing high-quality healthcare information and technology to the home care market,” said Geoffrey Clapp, Health Hero Network Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operations Officer. “This relationship gives Health Hero Network a natural extension of our technology to the growing number of patients with chronic illnesses requesting home care services.”

“We are pleased to work with Health Hero Network, the leader in remote health monitoring,” said Craig Fraizer, McKesson Vice President and General Manager, Extended Care Solutions Group. “Its unique, simple and easy-to-use monitoring technology and data management tools, along with its highly personalized health management programs and complex data system, are making a difference in patients’ lives and improving health outcomes at the same time. Combined with McKesson’s Horizon Homecare Agency Management System, we will provide our customers with a single, integrated electronic medical record, including data from nursing visits and telehealth monitors.”

Telehealth Advisor, based on the Health Buddy system, includes monitoring technologies, clinical information databases, Internet-enabled decision support tools, health management programs and content development tools. The system serves as the interface between patients at home and their care providers, facilitating patient education and monitoring of chronic conditions. McKesson will package and sell the system to the home care market as Telehealth Advisor. Telehealth Advisor will offer Health Hero Network’s state-of-the-art health management programs in various disease areas, such as diabetes, heart disease and mental health, as well as related health topics like pain management and wellness to manage chronic illness. McKesson’s new telehealth solution will allow patients to collect their vital signs using medical devices (such as a scale, blood pressure monitor or blood glucose monitor) and transmit the readings and responses to other symptom, behavior and education questions to their provider via an easy-to-use Health Buddy appliance connected to an ordinary phone line.

Patients respond to disease-specific questions presented by the Health Buddy appliance, which connects to a database containing thousands of questions on the most common disease and health subjects. The programs are based on appropriate standard practice guidelines and use dynamically branching question taxonomy. Patients gain a better understanding of their health condition and providers benefit by increasing the efficiency of their staff nurses while improving patient care through better health management

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