Cybernet Medical Receives FDA Clearance for MedStar(TM); Product Line Now Includes INR and Temperature Monitoring.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Cybernet Medical, a leading developer of telemedicine devices for outpatient care, today announced it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for expanding the capabilities of its MedStar(TM) Disease Management Data Collection System. The hand-held MedStar unit now supports Blood Coagulation (in International Normalized Ratio, or INR) and Temperature Monitoring, allowing healthcare providers to conduct remote, detailed and regular checks on patients with a wide variety of disease states at home, such as asthma, hypertension, congestive heart failure (CHF) and diabetes.

"We have been impressed with Cybernet Medical's Medstar vital sign monitoring equipment and its use at the point of care to improve patient outcome in wound healing, diabetes control, and CHF monitoring," says Dr. Charles A. Bryant, President of Evident Health Services. "The addition of point of care INR testing provides a valuable tool to improve patient safety and clinical outcome through better anticoagulation monitoring. In addition, in a state with significant rural populations needing to be served, delivering sophisticated clinical evaluation to the point of care relieves the patient and their family of the personal and financial burden of frequent visits to a metropolitan facility to secure these services."

The inexpensive, unintrusive and easy-to-use MedStar device connects to and transmits physiological data from standard measurement devices regularly used at home by chronic disease patients with high blood pressure, diabetes, CHF and respiratory conditions. These devices include electronic scales, blood pressure cuffs, spirometers, pulse oximeters, glucose monitors, wound care cameras, and even live video communication with the patient. The MedStar device eliminates hand-written journals with interactive voice response (IVR) monitoring methods, providing physicians and disease management caseworkers with more accurate patient information - and avoiding costly human errors. And because the MedStar collects data directly from the measurement devices and transmits it to a collection server over a standard telephone line, patients can use it anywhere and at any time.

About MedStar(TM)

The MedStar interface device and accompanying web-based electronic patient record comprise the complete MedStar System, which is designed to improve in-home patient chronic disease management while reducing the expense of providing it. Specifically designed for home care, hospital and disease management situations, the battery-powered and portable MedStar device is a complete low-cost solution for moving physiological data acquired in the patient's home to remotely located caregivers. Using MedStar devices paired with Cybernet Medical's web-based electronic patient physiological data record management systems, home and health care providers can deliver better care at lower cost and free up resources to care for more seriously ill patients.

About Cybernet Medical

Cybernet Medical is focused on using the Internet to improve the way chronic care patients are monitored and diagnosed. Through research funded by the U.S. Government, Cybernet Medical developed and patented medical devices and web-based electronic patient record systems that remotely collect data and provide the means for more efficiently managing chronically ill patients. Cybernet Medical is a division of Cybernet Systems, a research and development firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For more information on Cybernet Medical, visit the company's web site at www.cybernetmedical.com or call 734-668-2567.

MedStar(TM) meets all current, applicable FDA requirements for telemonitoring and alerting applied to Diabetes, Congestive Heart Failure, COPD, ECG Event Monitoring, Wound Care Monitoring, and Symptom Reporting.