LOS ANGELES, CA — (Marketwire) — 04/01/13 — (OTCQB: MMRF) (“MMR”), a leading provider of (“PHRs”), storage solutions and electronic document management and imaging systems for , today announced that based on interest in licensing its growing patent portfolio in advance of patient engagement requirements under Stage 2 Meaningful Use to be implemented by January 1, 2014, the Company is expanding its licensing efforts to include additional healthcare professionals, hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, laboratory systems, pharmacies, mass merchandisers and other vendors and providers while continuing to sell its HIT products and services direct in response to increased interest in the marketplace. Since the founding of MyMedicalRecords in 2005, the Company-s patented products and services have grown in value and were the subject of a special report published on January 22, 2013 which concluded that the value of the Company-s U.S. HIT patent portfolio could reach between $600 million to $1.1 billion in revenue (). Additionally, in January 2009, following the Company-s merger with Favrille Inc., MMR acquired a biotech portfolio created at a cost of more than $100 million from which the Company has already signed non-exclusive license agreements for more than $13 million. Management believes that the Company-s valuation should include the value of all its intellectual property, similar to other IP-holding companies that have invented and license and sell their IP.
Last week, the Company announced the launch of seamless connectivity between the Personal Health Record and Electronic Medical Record (“EMR”) systems in medical clinics starting April 15, 2013. The new features are designed to facilitate two-way connectivity between a MyMedicalRecords PHR and any EMR or laboratory reporting system. Using an HL7 interface, MMR is able to populate data, such as a Continuity of Care Document (“CCD”), directly to the patient as well as lab test results, medication lists and other discrete data directly into a MyMedicalRecords PHR. The system will also be able to push PDFs and other personally managed health information from the patient-s confidentially maintained files directly into an EMR or EHR at the total discretion of the patient.
The MMR patent portfolio includes seven U.S. patents: Nos. 8,301,466; 8,352,287; 8,352,288; 8,121,855; 8,117,646; 8,117,045; and 8,321,240, as well as additional patents internationally including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan and Singapore. The Company also has pending applications in Hong Kong, South Korea, Israel, and European nations. The MMR patent portfolio involves inventions pertaining to Personal Health Records, Patient Portals and other Electronic Health Record systems.
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, retail pharmacies, 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 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 .
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Michael Selsman
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