Cyber-Care Partners With DataVoice In Puerto Rico; Shipments of Telehealth System Units Already Under Way.Business Editors and Health/Medical Writers BOYNTON BEACH Boynton Beach, city (1990 pop. 46,194), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; inc. 1920. A major suburban area, it is also a beach resort and vegetable-shipping point. , Fla.--(BW HealthWire)--May 7, 2001 Cyber-Care, Inc. (Nasdaq:CYBR CYBR Copy Byte Right ) today announced an agreement with DataVoice Solutions, a Puerto Rican Puer·to Ri·co Abbr. PR or P.R. A self-governing island commonwealth of the United States in the Caribbean Sea east of Hispaniola. cybernetics cybernetics [Gr.,=steersman], term coined by American mathematician Norbert Wiener to refer to the general analysis of control systems and communication systems in living organisms and machines. technology company, that allows it to serve as the reseller in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. for the purchasing and distribution of the Electronic HouseCall(R) (EHC EHC Environmental Health Criteria EHC Environmental Health Center (NSC) EHC Eishockeyclub (German) EHC Extended Health Care (Plan) EHC Emory and Henry College ) System and its family of products, subject to minimum purchase and distribution requirements of at least 750 System units for the remainder of this year. Cyber-Care began shipment of products under the initial purchase order last week. Cyber-Care's EHC System allows for effective and efficient data collection, case management and personal interaction between chronically ill patients and their caregivers. Cyber-Care and DataVoice have already established network operations in Puerto Rico utilizing a variety of telecommunications technology, including wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1 , in support of the installation of the EHC System. Under the agreement DataVoice will purchase and distribute EHC products and provide local access and backbone circuits for Cyber-Care's network services in Puerto Rico. Cyber-Care has already initiated shipment of a variety of its products to DataVoice, including peripheral medical devices that address the primary medical conditions affecting Puerto Rico's chronically ill population, such as congestive heart failure congestive heart failure, inability of the heart to expel sufficient blood to keep pace with the metabolic demands of the body. In the healthy individual the heart can tolerate large increases of workload for a considerable length of time. , asthma and diabetes. "DataVoice looks forward to working with Cyber-Care in becoming an integral part of health care reform in Puerto Rico and delivering quality health care using the Electronic HouseCall System," said Edwin Francheschi, president of DataVoice. "Everyone in Puerto Rico deserves world-class medical care and the Cyber-Care system can help in that crusade by allowing patients to monitor their vital signs from the privacy of their homes, especially in the many rural areas where, up to now, it would have been difficult for the patient to be in contact with their medical provider on a consistent basis." In addition, according to John Haines, senior vice president of Cyber-Care, this partnership gives Puerto-Rican-based healthcare providers a cost-efficient solution to providing quality care. "DataVoice has an excellent history of providing network-based solutions and services in Puerto Rico," Haines added. "Our mutual efforts will greatly elevate the quality of medical monitoring for chronically ill individuals." The prior binding Letter of Intent with i2i2 has been replaced by this agreement with DataVoice. Cyber-Care and i2i2 are developing a business model to serve the hospitality industry. About CYBER-CARE, Inc. Cyber-Care, Inc. is a network-based telehealth solutions company improving the delivery of care through its Internet-based technology. Cyber-Care creates a live, interactive community that incorporates all members of the care team in the healthcare delivery process, resulting in cost reduction and improvement in the quality of patient care. Utilizing patented technology for remote monitoring and real-time interactive communications between chronically ill patients and their providers, Cyber-Care's Electronic HouseCall(R) System allows for effective and efficient data collection, case management and personal interaction. Headquartered in Boynton Beach, Fla., Cyber-Care also has physical, occupational and speech therapy businesses and an institutional pharmacy. Visit Cyber-Care's Web site at www.cyber-care.net. About DataVoice Solutions DataVoice Solutions, a Puerto Rican company that offers the most sophisticated services in cybernetics technology. The services offered are: telephony over IP, virtual agenda services, Internet services, creation, development and processing of Internet sites in HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , Java, COLD FUSSION, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , FLASH and all other Internet development applications tools and Internet applications and networking services and new features as a wireless transport service and a medical web collaboration took, plus the integration of a billing platform DataVoice Solutions can be found on the web at http://www.datavoicepr.com/ Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. 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