Cybernet Medical Awarded Broad Patent for Linking the Internet with Outpatient Medical Care.

Business/Technology Editors

ANN ARBOR, Michigan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000

Patent Incorporated as Part of a Nationwide Internet-based

Cardiac Outpatient Monitoring Network

Cybernet Systems Corporation today announced the award of U.S. patent 6,050,940, a broad patent covering the implementation of a variety of Internet-enabled medical products and the data services that support them.

The company is incorporating the patent into its launch of a centralized national cardiac outpatient monitoring network for remote data capture, analysis, archive and display. The company is also licensing the instrumentation, data services software and patent coverage to appropriate medical groups, facilities and equipment manufacturers interested in offering complementary outpatient care using Internet communications.

"While there is already a thriving market for collecting, compiling and transferring outpatient medical data, Cybernet Medical`s patented technology will enable physicians to access medical images and patient data more quickly and easily, and from any Internet connection anywhere in the world," said Chuck Jacobus, president of Cybernet Systems. "Our goal is to offer physicians a complement to existing medical business practices, a service that lowers costs by enabling constant remote monitoring and analysis through outpatient care and also ultimately improves outpatient freedom and mobility. Perhaps more importantly, it allows this data to be easily shared with colleagues or specialists in a speedy, secure fashion."

The Cybernet Medical patent, awarded April 18, 2000, covers the innovative use of Internet and wireless connectivity for portable physiological measurement instruments like EEG, EKG, blood pressure, pulse oximetry and other systems. The patent includes a description of how physiological measurements are remotely taken in conjunction with more conventional video and sound information, and then transmitted through wired or wireless packet networks to central processing and archival systems. As an example, it includes the remote acquisition and transmission of medical data across the Internet for processing and relaying to medical practitioners for review and diagnosis.

"It's a very broad patent," Jacobus added. "For measuring medically-relevant variables like blood pressure, heart and pulse rates, the patent includes everything from cell phone web applications to Internet audio and video transmissions."

"We are pleased to see the expanded development of Internet capabilities for outpatient cardiac care," noted Damon Coffman, division vice president-engineering for Alaris Medical Systems, Inc. "As one of the leading manufacturers of remote cardiac monitoring devices, Alaris fully supports technologies that deliver faster and better care to cardiac patients -- from new ways of providing cardiologists with secure Internet connections for sharing data with colleagues to on-demand transmission methods for physiological data from the patient to the physician."

"Cardiac patients will greatly benefit from new technologies that offer physicians reliable methods for monitoring their physiological progress outside of the hospital setting," noted Harold L. Karpman, M.D., a clinical professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine. "The Internet, and the technologies that support it, give physicians new abilities to monitor a patient's vital signs regardless of their location or time of day, and to make appropriate treatment recommendations."

About Cybernet

Cybernet Systems is a privately-held technology research and development company focused on creating and commercializing innovative, high quality, leading-edge solutions in the medical, networking, wireless, robotics, electromechanical and PC hardware/software arenas. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. More information on Cybernet is available on the World Wide Web at www.cybernet.com.