LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - October 26, 2010) - MMRGlobal, Inc. (
On August 2, President Obama announced the "Blue Button" initiative (http://www4.va.gov/bluebutton) that allows U.S. Veterans to download their personal health information from their My HealtheVet account. On April 30, 2011, at a special event at the Playboy Mansion honoring Veterans and Operation Mend at the UCLA Health System Medical Center, MMRGlobal will launch its www.MyBlueButton.org website linking to its MyMedicalRecords Personal Health Record. The Company's PHR can store the full range of medical records, from lab reports and doctor's notes to immunizations and X-rays and other medical images, and also includes multiple special "lockbox" folders with secondary passwords for other important documents such as military discharge papers, gun permits, passports, birth and marriage certificates, insurance policies and deeds of trusts.
"We appreciate the sacrifices made for our safety and security by the brave men and women of our armed forces," said Robert H. Lorsch, Chairman and CEO of MMRGlobal. "Although no commercial enterprise can fully repay them, we want to offer Vets the opportunity to use their 'Blue Button' to store their most important records with the safety and security of our advanced patented technologies on our www.MyBlueButton.org site. This way, Veterans can be assured that their records can be shared in any emergency with doctors in or out of the VA system from any Internet-connected computer anywhere in the world. At the same time, our system ensures the highest level of privacy because users maintain control over who has access to their records and the Company does not use third party intermediaries to retrieve data. And unlike any other product of its kind, users are protected by a one million dollar Cyber Liability policy protecting their important information."
MMR's MyBlueButton.org program rides on the back of the government's "Blue Button" initiative and branding and augments the Administration's national calling for all Americans to have a Personal Health Record by 2014. Delivering the most comprehensive PHR product in the marketplace today, the MyMedicalRecords system is built on an integrated telecommunications platform incorporating Internet, fax and phone to transmit and store personal health information and other important data in one central secure online account with a single sign-on. This provides for the ultimate flexibility in communicating and accessing information which the Company believes is necessary to accelerate widespread adoption of Personal Health Records by 2014.
The MyMedicalRecords PHR also offers other valuable tools to help Vets and their families have greater control over their health and better manage their lives overall. In addition to its ease-of-use and availability in both English and Spanish, the system includes a family health history, a drug database and drug interaction tool that can automatically check for interactions between over 20,000 medications and also food allergies, and a reference center containing information on 3,000 conditions and diseases. Importantly, there is a separate Emergency Login that medical personnel and authorized users can access to retrieve potentially life-saving information in a crisis situation; and each account also comes with its own inbound and outbound e-fax capability which further expands the options for quickly and easily sharing information.
According to Lorsch, "The service will be free for a year and then additional years' subscriptions will be provided by our Company at prices well below the cost of the personalized voice fax telecommunications services embedded in every account. Our numbers show that 99 percent of all MyMedicalRecords users do not cancel the service after the initial period. I also plan to work through the Robert H. Lorsch Foundation Trust to identify non-profits that can underwrite services for Veterans and their families in subsequent years."
About MMRGlobal, Inc.
MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. (MMR), provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records (PHRs) and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, and professional organizations and affinity groups. MyMedicalRecords enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. The MyMedicalRecords Personal Health Record is built on proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to populate a user's account. MMRGlobal's professional offering, MMRPro, is designed to give physicians' offices an easy and cost-effective solution to digitizing paper-based medical records and sharing them with patients in real time through an integrated patient portal. MMR is an Independent Software Vendor Partner with Kodak to deliver an integrated turnkey EMR solution for healthcare professionals. MMR is also an integrated service provider on Google Health. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc. and its products, visit www.mmrglobal.com.
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