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EarlySense Is Selected to Exhibit at the "Facing Tomorrow: the Israel Presidential Conference 2008" Marking Israel's 60th Birthday.


EarlySense Begins Clinical Testing in the U.S. of EverOn[TM], a Continuous, Contact-Free, Early Detection, Patient Supervision System

RAMAT GAN Ramat Gan (rä`mät gän), city (1994 pop. 122,200), W central Israel, adjacent to Tel Aviv. Founded in 1921, Ramat Gan is an important industrial center. Food processing is the chief industry; construction materials are also made there. , Israel -- EarlySense, developer of the EverOn[TM], a continuous, contact-free, early detection, patient supervision system, announced today that it is part of a short list of sixty companies chosen to exhibit at Facing Tomorrow: the Israel Presidential Conference to be held at The Jerusalem International Convention Center in Jerusalem, May 13-15, 2008. EarlySense is also one of six companies selected from the sixty to be featured in the concluding visual presentation at the opening ceremony of the conference on May 13, 2008. The conference will mark Israel's 60th birthday with a preview of what the future holds for the global community. The event will feature Jewish and Israeli contributions to humanity. Guests will include presidents and prime ministers, foreign ministers, statesmen, Nobel Prize winners Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Year Recipient(s)
1969 Ragnar Frisch Jan Tinbergen
1970 Paul A. Samuelson
1971 Simon Kuznets
1972 Sir John R. Hicks Kenneth J.
, prominent journalists and leaders from the world's business community.

"EarlySense's technology promises to revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize  
tr.v. rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·es
1. To bring about a radical change in: Television has revolutionized news coverage.

2.
 patient care in hospitals, nursing homes and private homes. In fact, we are creating an entirely new industry: continuous, contact-free patient supervision, empowering clinicians to be at the right place at the right time. We are honored to be part of history in the making, by both participating in this historical international gathering and, in the long term, by positively influencing the future for patients and caregivers worldwide," said Mr. Avner Halperin, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of EarlySense.

EverOn measures patient parameters from under the mattress on which the patient is lying. There are no leads or cuffs to connect to the patient, who has complete freedom of movement and need not suffer from any irritating attachments. EverOn detects heart and respiration rates respiration rate
n.
Frequency of breathing, expressed as the number of breaths per minute.
 as well as bed entries and exits, patient movement and quality of sleep. The device sounds an alert when a pre-set parameter threshold is crossed. EverOn also displays and records real time data on a continuous time-line. The time line is designed to help predict the deterioration de·te·ri·o·ra·tion
n.
The process or condition of becoming worse.
 of a patient's health and consequently avert a critical event.

EarlySense also announced today that the company has begun clinical trials of the EverOn system in the U.S. The company has been and continues to conduct studies of the system in Israel at several prestigious clinical sites. The data generated to date prompted the company to begin clinical testing in the U.S.

"EarlySense plans to continue the clinical development of the system throughout 2008 and to launch the product into the market in 2009," said Mr. Halperin.

About EarlySense

EarlySense is developing a pioneering technology designed to advance proactive and preventive patient supervision to enable better patient outcomes. The flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , EverOn, is an automatic, continuous, contact-free patient supervision device. The base technology of the EverOn system was cleared by the FDA FDA
abbr.
Food and Drug Administration


FDA,
n.pr See Food and Drug Administration.

FDA,
n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration.
 in November 2007. EarlySense was founded in 2004 by Avner Halperin, Dr. Danny Lange Dr. Danny B. Lange (born 1962) is Software Architect in the Live Search group at Microsoft. He is widely known for his invention of the Java Aglet, a lightweight mobile agent for the Java programming environment. , Yossi Gross, and Guy Shinar. The company is headquartered in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For additional information or to schedule an interview with Mr. Halperin, please contact Marjie Hadad, Media Liaison, at +972-54-536-5220 or marjie@netvision.net.il.
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