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"After making numerous presentations on behalf of MyMedicalRecords, where I requested support for PHRs, this was the first time that I left Washington believing that the value of a cost-effective, patient-controlled Personal Health Record was being embraced. That includes previous meetings and presentations to former HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Congressional Representatives including senior staff members in the office of The Honorable Ted Kennedy, as well as ONC staff and former National Coordinators for Health IT, David J. Brailer, M.D. and David Blumenthal, M.D.," Lorsch added.

The briefing also emphasized the point that without standardization, the current HIT infrastructure did not allow a level playing field for small businesses competing with larger health IT equipment and system providers who dominate more than two-thirds of the marketplace. Information included in the briefing also covered how contractual terms from larger EMR systems are written to discourage hospitals from using other vendors which is counter to requirements of standardization and interoperability.

MMR's technology specifically addresses the issues of interoperability while provisioning a comprehensive Personal Health Record to the patient. The Company offers solutions for patients, physicians and hospitals that seamlessly connect along the lines of the government's stated goal of interoperability and empowering patients, providing access to their health information in a PHR. MMRGlobal also has an extensive healthcare IT patent portfolio, which 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. The MMR Patent Portfolio includes nearly 400 claims as well as additional applications and continuation applications. The patents involve inventions pertaining to Personal Health Records, Patient Portals and other Electronic Health Record systems. MMR also has been granted patents and has other pending applications in countries of commercial interest including Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan, Canada, Hong Kong, South Korea, Israel, and European nations.

About MMRGlobal
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 MyMedicalRecords 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, 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. 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 www.mmrglobal.com. View demos and video tutorials of the Company's products and services at www.mmrtheater.com.