Kaiser Permanente serves the health care needs of about 8. The Health Buddy system serves as the interface between
patients at home and care providers, facilitating patient education and
monitoring of chronic conditions. By standardizing to one supplier, IH intends to
ensure that the system will provide the reliability and effectiveness
required of a staff duress monitoring system and capitalize on costs
due to economies of scale.homefreesys.

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4 million
members in nine states and the District of Columbia. The Capitol
Hill "Steering Committee on Telehealth and Health Care Informatics" is now
in its 12th year.
HomeFree's President, Guy Lerner said, "The selection of
HomeFree's monitoring solutions by a public health administration of
Interior Health 's scale exemplifies the applicability of the Company's
systems across a range of facility types.

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Employers can gauge the effectiveness of strategies through feedback on
overall program performance .

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Kaiser Permanente's Disease Management Expertise Now Available to All Large Employer Groups

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.

The eHealth Initiative is a non-profit affiliated organization whose
mission is to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of
health care through information and information technology.

British Columbia Health Agency Selects HomeFree 's Monitoring Platform

IH of British Columbia awarded HomeFree a long-term, 3 to 5 year
contract to provide staff duress monitoring systems to its various
public health facilities and is currently in the process of trialling
the system in residential care facilities to determine is it will
become the standard for resident safety monitoring in residential care
facilities.

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Public health includes such diverse topics as preventive medicine; health education and promotion; sanitation and hygiene; communicable-disease control; emergency medical services; assessment and monitoring and organization of health services and policies.

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Employees and dependents can take advantage of 24/7 telephone health
coaching, and benefit from comprehensive support for their health concerns
using web, video and print materials. Health education will be available for
everything from nutrition, weight loss , smoking cessation, stress reduction,
to self-care and decision support for chronic and preference -sensitive
conditions. Kaiser Permanente healthy Solutions is headquartered in Oakland,
California , with administrative offices in Atlanta and Los Angeles." The event is attended by Congressional leaders
and government decision makers who are committed to improving the quality
of health care.

About Health Hero Network

Health Hero Network develops and markets the Health Buddy system for
health improvement. Based in Mountain View,
California, Health Hero Network's systems are protected by over 55 issued
US patents. HomeFree's product line includes individual and group
monitoring solutions for dementia patients in long-term care
facilities and at home.

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"We can help improve the physician patient
relationship, and we can become the trusted advisor for community physicians
wherever Kaiser Permanente Healthy Solutions is offered," added Dr.
"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
health care services . IH administrates some 125 public health
centers with mental health units/facilities.

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Employer-
focused services include an initial assessment to identify areas of
opportunity within the covered population to improve quality and outcomes.

"Coaching and monitoring patients at home is a key element of transforming
and improving chronic care," said Steve Brown, Health Hero Network's CEO .----

HomeFree System Designated Standard Staff Duress System for All Mental
Health Units/Facilities within a Publicly Funded Provincial Health
Authority

HomeFree Inc. has now
successfully adapted this technology to meet the staff safety needs
within mental health facilities.

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"
KP Healthy Solutions' services will include features for three critical
groups, employers, employees and their dependents, and physicians, which can
dramatically impact the overall effectiveness of the health care experience.
Kaiser Permanente Healthy Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kaiser
Permanente.
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The Health Buddy
system will also be included in upcoming landmark Medicare demonstration
programs. HomeFree's monitoring
systems were reported by IH officials to have been selected for their
ability to meet the functional requirements of mental health
facilities , their wireless communication features and outstanding
references.

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kphealthysolutions. 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.
Through increased communication, behavior modification, and prevention, the
Health Buddy system improves the quality of care.

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The first is the employers who are providing health plan coverage .
Community physicians will be offered convenient access to tools and
resources via a web portal , access to evidence-based knowledge and registries,
feedback on their patient population, improved panel management and ability to
meet pay for performance goals.

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4 million Kaiser Permanente members to promote healthier lifestyles,
create more informed patients, and utilize the best evidence to care for
chronic illness.

PRESS RELEASE Health Hero Network Invited to Capitol Hill to Demonstrate Its Health Care Technology

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, a global provider of wireless monitoring solutions
for the long-term care market, today announces its selection as the
standard provider of staff safety monitoring solutions to a Canadian
public health agency, Interior Health (IH). We are very pleased to have
been able to present a range of solutions that meet IH expectations
and look forward to successful implementation of additional systems
across the region's public health facilities over the contract's
duration."

Notes to Editors:

About HomeFree Systems: HomeFree is a global provider of wireless
monitoring solutions for the senior housing and homecare markets.

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populations safety

Founded in 1945, it
is a nonprofit, group practice prepayment program headquartered in Oakland,
Calif. In
Europe, the Company's systems are distributed through Tyco Safety
Products .

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This information can then be used to create customized outreach campaigns to
help employees and dependents become better-informed health care consumers.
Health Hero Network, Inc.com

Further to a successful evaluation of a pilot installation earlier
this year, HomeFree's solution is now available for all of IH mental
health facilities.

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"KP Healthy Solutions has been created to encourage informed health care
decisions by employers and their employees, and is a direct response to
numerous requests from our large employer customers," explained Chris Stenzel,
CEO of Kaiser Permanente Healthy Solutions . HomeFree was established in 2000 and is a wholly
owned subsidiary of the London listed Dmatek.

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Kaiser Permanente Healthy Solutions Offers Health Coaches, Help With Rising
Costs

OAKLAND, Calif."
"Most large employers are looking for ways to improve quality and promote
a healthier, more engaged and productive workforce," stated Al Weiland, MD,
chief medical officer for Kaiser Permanente Healthy Solutions, and former
medical director of the Northwest Permanente Medical Group.

systematic communicable

Kaiser
Permanente is America's leading integrated health plan. The system includes monitoring
technologies, clinical information databases, Internet-enabled decision
support tools, health management programs and content development tools.

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"Kaiser Permanente Healthy
Solutions is an opportunity for purchasers and their benefits consultants to
mitigate the drivers of health care costs, while offering employees and
dependents improved care, and higher levels of satisfaction . Today it encompasses the
nonprofit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.healthhero.

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, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and
their subsidiaries, and the for-profit Permanente Medical Groups.

The seminar and all-day technology demonstration is hosted by the eHealth
Initiative and the Capitol Hill "Steering Committee on Telehealth and
Health care Informatics. HomeFree Inc. The Company aims to work with medical experts
to design effective solutions that give patients maximum freedom while
minimizing costs.

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, Kaiser Permanente (KP) has
launched a new disease management subsidiary, Kaiser Permanente Healthy
Solutions, that will offer its award-winning disease management programs to
large, national employers (10,000+ employees) with self-funded employee
populations, as well as labor and trust unions , and government payors. "Kaiser
Permanente Healthy Solutions leverages the proven strategies used in caring
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