LOS ANGELES, CA — (Marketwire) — 12/18/12 — (OTCQB: MMRF) today announced it has filed a Form 8-K regarding the signing of another royalty-based licensing agreement. On December 17, 2012, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. (“MMR”) signed a Non-Exclusive Patent License Agreement with Healthcare Holdings Group, Inc. (“HCH”), the parent of Access My Records, Inc., to license the U.S. rights for the health IT patents owned by MyMedicalRecords, Inc. These include but are not limited to U.S. Patent Numbers 8,321,240; 8,301,466; 8,117,045; 8,117,646; and 8,121,855, as well as any other health IT patents to be issued pursuant to pending applications filed by MyMedicalRecords in the United States and all divisions, continuations, reissues, and extensions (the “MMR Patents”). The initial term of the Agreement is five years and automatically renews to the expiration date of the last licensed patent to expire, which currently in the U.S. is twenty years from the date of filing. MMRGlobal is a leading provider of (PHRs) including its PHR and document management and imaging systems for healthcare professionals.
According to Robert H. Lorsch, MMRGlobal Chairman and CEO, “We are pleased that we have been able to announce royalty-based license agreements with EHR vendors, surgery centers, and now a PHR vendor, in addition to entering into relationships with retailers and others as a direct result of the Company-s patented IP in our products and services. As a result of recently issued patents and Notices of Allowance, we are continuing to discuss other licensing relationships with hospitals, physician groups, retail pharmacies, patient monitoring and telemedicine service providers and laboratories, as well as other software and equipment vendors in the healthcare and wellness markets.”
is a comprehensive Electronic Health Record systems provider. HCH-s solutions are designed for General Practice and Chiropractic disciplines. The company-s software systems include ChartZoneMD, an EHR cloud-based software solution, and SmartFormsMD, a Voice Recognition Medical Dictionary module. HCH, through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, Access My Records, Inc., provides the Personal Health Record and a free-standing Patient Portal designed to seamlessly connect to any EHR system.
“We have been following MyMedicalRecords- efforts to provide untethered standardized solutions to how patients share medical information with their doctors,” said Leonard Tambasco, Chairman and CEO of Healthcare Holdings Group, Inc. “In spite of the fact that our two companies regularly compete in the marketplace, we recognize the importance of MMR-s Patent Portfolio as we approach requirements under the HITECH Act mandating the use of Personal Health Records and Patient Portals by 2014. Therefore, for the benefit of our clients and shareholders, we have made the decision to license the technology at this time. Although we approach the market differently, we both have a mission to provide seamless connectivity between patients and physicians. The Agreement with MMR is consistent with HCH-s position to enhance and support industry-wide standardization efforts. HCH will launch its MU-1 compliant EHR at HIMSS13.”
MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc., 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. The PHR 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. MyMedicalRecords 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. The Company-s professional offering, , 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. Through its merger with Favrille, Inc. in January 2009, the Company acquired intellectual property biotech assets that include anti-CD20 antibodies and data and samples from its FavId/Specifid vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin-s lymphoma. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc. visit . View demos and video tutorials of the Company-s products and services at .
Healthcare Holdings Group, Inc. (HCH) provides the Electronic Health Records (EHR) software suite, ChartZoneMD, designed to give physicians- offices an easy and cost-effective cloud-based practice management solution. ChartZoneMD-s suite of applications, tools, and technology allow clinicians to seamlessly transit from paper charts to the recently mandated Meaningful Use EHR format and reporting styles. In addition, HCH has developed SmartFormsMD, a free-standing, time-saving, error-reducing, customizable, medical voice-command module complete with medical dictionary integration and specialty accommodation. The ChartZoneMD Software Suite enables real-time sharing of medical records with patients via the Access My Records integrated patient-portal module. For more information, visit .
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