SAN DIEGO, Calif. and PORTLAND, Ore. – MediKeeper, a leading provider of software and technologies for patient and employee health, wellness, and adherence, has been selected as one of Dossia’s personal health record application providers. Dossia, a non-profit consisting of large U.S. employers, provides employees with access to, and control over their health information through personally-controlled health records (PCHRs).

As employers deploy Dossia’s personally-controlled health records, they can choose MediKeeper as an application for employees to view and manage their personal health information from multiple data sources. The software could be populated with patient data such as patient history, screenings, labs, medications and device data from Dossia’s existing technology platform.

Dossia enabled employees will subsequently have access to up-to-date health information through the MediKeeper application to make informed and preventative healthcare decisions. The MediKeeper application will enable this information to be conveniently shared with an employee’s healthcare provider, used to identify gaps in care or avoid medical errors, and made available in critical medical situations.

“MediKeeper is proud to meet the vigorous standards of Dossia and to be selected as one of its first personal health record application providers,” said Ryan Tarzy, President of MediKeeper. “Our organizations share mutual values of upholding privacy, portability, and patient-control. MediKeeper looks forward to working together with Dossia to break new ground in empowering employees through health and wellness information technologies.”

“Gaining access to health data is a difficult feat for consumers in today’s healthcare system. Dossia is dedicated to breaking down these barriers, and empowering employees to make smart health decisions,” said Rick Benoit, Director of Ecosystem Development at Dossia and Senior Program Manager at Intel. “We look forward to collaborating with innovative application providers like MediKeeper, who play an important part in this process and the development of the Dossia enabled ecosystem.”

Dossia’s infrastructure is open-source, and made available to personal health application developers, such as MediKeeper, who share a commitment to maintaining a consumer’s personal access to and control of health information. The infrastructure is designed to encourage vendor innovation for the benefit of patients and providers nationwide.

About MediKeeper
MediKeeper is a private company delivering web-based Personal Health Applications (PHAs) and technologies for patient-centered health information management. MediKeeper offers employers and health care providers a robust and consumer-friendly package of customizable web-based tools and content to assist with their health and wellness programs, enhancing ROI while improve the health and quality of life for employees and patients. The applications are built on top of the MediKeeper’s robust platform, which enables industry leading data integration, reporting, and user-interface customization. For more information, visit www.medikeeper.com.

About Dossia
Dossia is a non-profit organization consisting of several large U.S. employers who have united under a common vision: to empower their employees to make smarter more informed decisions about their healthcare. Through Dossia, they will leverage their combined influence to break down barriers to health information, which will help drive consumer-initiated change.

The Dossia Founders group includes AT&T, Applied Materials, BP America, Cardinal Health, Intel, Pitney Bowes, sanofi-aventis and Wal-Mart. For more information, visit www.dossia.org.

CONTACT:
Ryan Tarzy, MediKeeper
(858) 240-2201
rtarzy@medikeeper.com

Colette Cote, Pitney Bowes/Dossia
(203) 351-6132
Colette.cote@pb.com

Meighan McFalls, YRG for Dossia
(503) 542-3464
mmcfalls@yrgcommunications.com

SAN DIEGO, Calif.: MediKeeper (www.medikeeper.com), a leading provider of enabling technologies for patient safety, adherence, and wellness, is pleased to announce the launch of its new HealthPage application built on the Microsoft HealthVault platform. HealthPage provides a personalized health homepage or “personal health url” for consumers interested in better information and tools to manage their health and the health of their family.

HealthPage features wellness content and tools from MediKeeper and other best-of-breed vendors personalized to fit the specific health needs and interests of the patient. Through HealthVault, consumers can upload wellness data from partner devices such as blood pressure monitors, glucometers, and pedometers.

“HealthPage provides the most personalized user experience for consumers seeking a better way to manage their health and well being,” MediKeeper President Ryan Tarzy commented. “HealthVault provides individuals an easy way to upload data from devices into their HealthPage account and share important health information with people they trust.”

MediKeeper will be publicly presenting the MediKeeper HealthPage application for the first time at the Microsoft HealthVault Solutions Conference in Seattle on June 9, 2008.

“MediKeeper is pleased to form a strategic relationship with HealthVault and honored to be asked to present our new HealthPage application,” said Tarzy. “We look forward to working with Microsoft towards our common goals of empowering health consumers and improving patient safety and adherence.”

HealthVault is a free Web-based platform designed to put people in control of their health data. It helps them collect, store and share health information with family members and participating healthcare providers, and it provides people with a choice of third-party applications and devices to help them manage things such as fitness, diet and health. HealthVault also provides a privacy- and security-enhanced foundation on which a broad ecosystem of providers—from medical providers and health and wellness device manufactures to health associations—can build innovative new health and wellness management solutions to help put people in control of their and their family’s health.

“We look forward to working with organizations that strive to make managing family health information easier and more convenient, such as MediKeeper,” said Nate McLemore, director of business development, Microsoft Health Solutions Group. “Through our cooperative efforts, we will empower individuals to become more savvy healthcare consumers by providing compatible technologies that provide more complete access to their healthcare information.”

Additional information about MediKeeper is available at http://www.medikeeper.com/healthvault/

Additional information about HealthVault is available at http://www.healthvault.com

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CNBC highlights MediKeeper’s opening of Personal Health Labs in Hawaii. MediKeeper’s President Ryan Tarzy speaks about the business opportunities in Hawaii and the value of the MedKeeper-PacifiCap partnership. Jeff Au, Managing Director of PacifiCap is also interviewed.

Personal Health Labs is MediKeeper’s research and development center focused on creating cutting edge technologies for personal health and wellness.

Increasingly, headlines features news of bombings, floods, and fires. Given this uncertain environment, look for astute business leaders to invest in new ways to support their employees and keep companies running smoothly. A San Diego-based business and its CEO are helping businesses prepare for the next disaster.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has set a priority of improving emergency preparedness for “inevitable” future disasters. “All of us can do more to be better prepared in case of emergency.” says Henry Renteria, director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.

Businesses and individuals can also contribute to overall community preparedness. “Business and personal responses to a disaster are closely related.” says Bruce Tarzy, CEO of MediKeeper. “Workers find it difficult to focus on their work until they have that peace of mind.”

A survivor of recent fires in San Diego, Dr. Tarzy speaks from personal experience. At 4am on October 22, the Tarzy family was forced to evacuate. Fires raged over the next three weeks, destroying over 1,500 homes and displacing over one million households.

Lack of access to medical records wastes time, and can even be life-threatening. During the fires, innumerable records were either burned or inaccessible for several days. Many people forgot their medication at home and couldn’t go back without losing hours spent proving their residency, waiting for a police escort, and dealing with other forms of bureaucracy.

In this new era of increased uncertainty, significant challenges face an owner trying to protect the business and prepare his or her employees.

Dr. Tarzy’s company provides a solution for CEO’s, reducing stress and saving time for employees during disasters and expediting the process of getting the business back to normalcy post disaster. “MediKeeper has developed a set of web-based health and wellness tools that employers provide for their employees. One of those tools is the Personal Health Record, which allows an employee to securely and safely store his or her health information – medications, patient history, images, lab results, and more. Employees appreciate the investment in their health and peace of mind. With this service, they know that they can access their family’s critical health information anytime, anywhere, in any situation.”

His firm is taking this solution a step further by also creating a secure online system for storing non-medical documents such as trusts, wills, deeds and family photographs.

He continues; “That first week back at work after the fires, employees were distracted from their work by concerns about documents, medications, and insurance.” It became immediately apparent to him the productivity loss that results from an unprepared work force.

The Red Cross advises: “The best way to make you and your family safer is to be prepared before disaster strikes.”

Look for business owners and CEO’s to heed this call for disaster preparation during 2008. Many of them will turn to Dr. Tarzy and MediKeeper to provide the solution.