LOS ANGELES, CA — (Marketwire) — 10/12/11 — (OTCBB: MMRF), a leading provider of , storage solutions and electronic document management systems for , today announced that Mike Finley, Vice President, Worldwide Carrier Relations for Qualcomm, has joined the Company-s Board of Directors, the same week The Institute for Health Technology Transformation released that MMRGlobal was selected as the “Stock to Watch” at the annual iHT2 Health Technology Innovation & Investment Forum (). The forum brings together private equity firms, institutional investors, venture capital firms, private investors, analysts, healthcare IT companies, medical device companies, corporate investors, commercial brokers, investment bankers, law firms and strategic advisory firms to evaluate innovative and high growth firms with revenues of up to $50 million.
Prior to his position at Qualcomm, Mr. Finley was President of the West Region for Sprint Nextel and a Senior Vice President of Sprint Corporation. He originally joined Nextel in 2002 as Area Vice President of Southern California and was promoted following the Sprint Nextel merger to Senior Vice President of General Business for the U.S.
Robert H. Lorsch, Chairman and CEO of MMRGlobal, said, “Mike Finley is a leader in the telecommunications industry. We have been business associates and friends for nearly 20 years since first meeting when he was President of Verizon Wireless in Southern California. In selecting directors for the Company, we have made an effort to identify individuals who can truly make a difference in our business by the very nature of their background. Considering the importance of delivering health information over wireless networks, Mike-s experience and business acumen will be invaluable to the Company.”
Mr. Finley also was a Senior Vice President of Wingcast, a Joint Venture between Ford Motor Company and Qualcomm, which developed telematic products for Ford vehicles. From 1993 to 2001, he served as President of Verizon Wireless in Southern California and Vice President and General Manager in Sacramento, and was Vice President of Sales in Ohio for Airtouch Cellular. Prior to joining Airtouch, he held positions with Cellular One and McCaw Cellular. He began his career in communications in 1985 as a co-founder of Celluland, a national franchise which created an alternative distribution approach in advance of consumer marketing of wireless products.
Mr. Finley is a graduate of Creighton University with a BSBA in Marketing and the General Manager Program in Executive Education at Harvard Business School. He currently serves as a Board Member of the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission, Member of the Region 1 Homeland Security Advisory Council, and Member of the Creighton University Hall of Fame. Mr. Finley also served as a Member of the Board of Advisors at MMRGlobal, Inc., which he resigned from in connection with his appointment as a Director of the Company.
MMRGlobal-s new MMRPro video, version 3.0, featuring spokesperson Kira Reed can be seen at . MMRPro is a cost-effective, integrated solution that allows physicians to scan and digitize their patient records in accordance with government-mandated regulations for health records to be electronic by 2014. The video contains a whiteboard illustration of how physicians using MMRPro can participate in the MMR Stimulus Program and how their small group practice can receive as much as $100,000 in stimulus over three years.
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. The Company-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. 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. and its products, visit .
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