(EMAILWIRE.COM, September 27, 2002 ) Health Hero Network, Inc. illustrates early client and care manager satisfaction through health monitoring programs offered to clients at Council on Aging Silicon Valley(COA). The COA Health Buddy Senior Wellness, Congestive Heart Failure and Diabetes programs, launched in November, provide COA clients with Internet-based care management and at-home support through daily monitoring and interactive contact with their care providers. After six months, 93% of clients were satisfied with the Health Buddy, and 100% of clients found the Health Buddy patient appliance to be easy or very easy to use. COA Care Managers overall evaluated the performance of the Health Buddy to be good or excellent. The COA continues to provide and expand these service offerings to their elderly and disabled clients while continuing to measure for client satisfaction, quality of communication, and reduction in health care costs.

The Heath Hero technology platform is based on its patented and proven remote health monitoring technology, which has been clinically proven and deployed in thousands of patients homes for monitoring of chronic diseases. The platform consists of Health Buddy®, a simple and convenient four-button survey device that plugs into a standard phone line, and web-based applications for programming new questions and for analyzing the resulting data. The easy-to-use Health Buddy appliance, together with the Health Hero® iCare Desktop™, a web-based application used by case managers to receive and review patient daily responses, provide a communications link between healthcare providers and their chronically ill patients. The iCare Desktop automatically flags patients whose daily measurements fall outside of safe clinical ranges highlighting the possible need for earlier intervention.

About Health Hero Network

Health Hero Network, Inc., based in Mountain View, California, develops and markets the industry leading technology platform for remote health monitoring, evaluation and management. The Health Hero platform includes the company's Health Buddy® appliance and other licensee devices for data collection and communications with patients, and iCare Desktop™, an Internet-based care management and research solution for healthcare professionals. Health Hero Network also provides a secure data center acting as the repository for application services and collected data, and programs for over a dozen major chronic diseases. Health Hero Network licenses its platform to medical technology and services companies seeking a technology blueprint proven to enable better chronic care with lower costs to the healthcare system. Health Hero Network technology is protected by over 50 issued U.S. patents. For more information about Health Hero, visit www.healthhero.com.

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Contact:

Kirsten Dryden
Director of Marketing
650-559-1187
kdryden@healthhero.com

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