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`EDS and Health Hero Network
`Offer Internet Approach to
`Supporting Patients at Home
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`Healthcare professionals
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`will use the HHN Online Ser-
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`vice to create and assign
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`customized patient pro-
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`grams and access up—to-
`date patient data via a
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`standard Web browser.
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`D5 and Health Hero Network, Inc.
`(HHN), a healthcare information
`services company. announced that
`they are working together to provide
`an online service that enables patients at
`home and their care provist to proactively
`manage chronic illnsses. The service will
`enable medical professionals to efi‘ectively
`track and support patients. while helping
`these patients better manage their conditions
`at home. This collaboration will create a fre-
`quent 2—way communication link between
`healthoare providers and their patients.
`Care providers using the HHN Online
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`Service (an track the halth status of pa—
`tients with diseases such as diabetm, asth—
`ma, congestive bean failure, and renal dis—
`ease The service will give providers the
`frequent communication and baseline da—
`ta that yield more opportunities to identify
`potentially serious situations sooner, help
`caregivers focus their are on those who
`need it most. and enable them to educate
`and motivate patients.
`Healthcare professionals will use the
`HHN Online Service to create and as-
`sign customized patient programs and
`access up—to-date patient data via a
`standard Web browser. Healthcare or-
`ganizations can create custom HHN
`protocols —— collections of predeter-
`mined, disease-specific dialogues be-
`tween a patient and healthcare provider,
`intended to help assess. modify, and
`monitor pivotal aspects of patient be-
`havior, knowledge. and patient~ob-
`served symptoms. Care providers can
`customize the protocols for individual
`patients or groups of patients.
`Patients use the Health Buddy appli-
`ance, a simple. cost-effective, easy-to—
`use messaging device to receive mes-
`sages from and send information to
`healthcare profssionals. The appliance
`features a brightly lit. high-contrast dis—
`play screen with 4- large response but-
`tons for answering questions. The
`Health Buddy appliance will also be
`able to transmit data from blood glu-
`cose meters and other home medical
`devics that export data, subject to FDA
`clearance. Patient responses and data
`from medical devices will be automati-
`cally downloaded each night via the
`EDS infrastructure and can be viewed
`by Health Hero Network clients.
`EDS integrates telecommunications,
`decision support services, Internet tapa-
`bilities, and its Electronic Commerce
`ngement System (ECMS) to form the
`core HHN Onh‘ne Service infrastructure.
`Information from patients travels via the
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`be viewed from multiple geographial lo-
`cau'ons by care providers and use man-
`agers using a secure Internet connection.
`“EDS has a vision of using technol-
`ogy to improve the lives of individu-
`als. This relationship with HHN repre-
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`sents a significant step forward toward
`reaching that goal,” says EDS medical di-
`rector, Robert Beardall, MD, MPH. “The
`current acute care focus of our health-
`care system tends to address the needs of
`the chronically ill after they become un-
`stable. Combining the core competencies
`of Health Hero Network and EDS creates
`a solution that shifts this model to one
`of proactive intervention prior to the oc-
`currence of a crisis."
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`“Oftentimes, the only interaction be-
`tween patients with chronic illnesses and
`their healthoare providers is during infre-
`quently scheduled appointments or when
`there is a health crisis,” explains Steve
`Brown, Health Hero Network's founder
`and chief executive officer. “The informa-
`tion obtained through the Health Hero
`Network Online Service can provide eate-
`givers with more opportunities to identify
`potentially serious conditions sooner and '
`modify the patients treatment earlier to al-
`leviate future health complications. En-
`abling organizations to provide proactive
`care before the onset of major problems,
`rather than reacting to crises after they oc-
`cur. is the future of healtheare."
`Health Hero Network, Inc., a privately
`held healtheare information services compa-
`ny based in Mountain View Calif, is a leader
`in leveraging communieation technology to
`revolutionize the delivery of healthcare.
`HHN will provide a unique interactive com—
`munication link between healthcare
`providers and chronically ill patients at
`home. The companys service will enable
`managed care organizations to meet their
`greatest challenge: proactively and cost-ell'oc-
`Iively managing chronic disease.
`EDS has bear a leader in the global infor-
`mation services industry for more than 35
`years. The company delivers systems and
`technology expertise. management consult-
`ing, businm prooms management, and elec-
`tronic busineas leadership. EDS. with $16.9
`billion in revenus in 1998, offers solutions
`to improve the performance of more than
`9,000 business and government clients in
`nearly 50 countries. The company‘s stock is
`traded on the New York Stock exchange and
`the London Stock exchange. Visit EDS via
`the Internet at wwwedsoorn.
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