Bioheart, Inc. and Monebo Announce Distribution and Licensing Agreement for Heart Monitoring Technologies
* The Bioheart-Monebo system allows heart patients to be monitored from the comfort of their own home. The system consists of the easy-to-use CardioBelt(tm) ECG Acquisition Device and ECGAnalyzer(tm) Monitoring Software. It is designed for patient ease of use, and to allow health care professionals to quickly obtain accurate information on their patient's ECG.
* The ECGAnalyzer(tm) Decision Support System is designed to aid health care professionals to interpret ECG data and risk-stratify their patients. It can be used in a real-time application or for post-processing and will run in any PC or server-based environment. ECGAnalyzer(tm) displays the ECG waveform, makes the critical measurements, and performs rhythm interpretation on up to 16 different rhythms. Utilizing the Kinetic(tm) family of ECG Algorithms, it provides highly accurate results. Additionally, a health care professional may set threshold limits for each measured parameter, helping to risk-stratify the patients for further follow-up. ECGAnalyzer(tm) can be used in conjunction with the CardioBelt(tm) ECG Acquisition Device, or as a stand- alone device to interpret up to 16 leads of ECG data.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. According to the American Heart Association and the European Society of Cardiology Task Force for the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure, there are an estimated 5.2 million patients with heart failure in the United States and 9.6 million in Europe.
About Bioheart, Inc.:
Bioheart, Inc. (NasdaqCM:BHRT - News) is committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases. Its goals are to improve a patient's quality of life and reduce health care costs and hospitalizations. Specific to biotechnology, Bioheart is focused on the discovery, development and, subject to regulatory approval, commercialization of autologous cell therapies for the treatment of chronic and acute heart damage. Its lead product candidate, MyoCell(r), is an innovative clinical muscle-derived stem cell therapy designed to populate regions of scar tissue within a patient's heart with new living cells for the purpose of improving cardiac function in chronic heart failure patients. The Company's pipeline includes multiple product candidates for the treatment of heart damage, including Bioheart Acute Cell Therapy, an autologous, adipose tissue-derived stem cell treatment for acute heart damage, and MyoCell(r) SDF-1, a therapy utilizing autologous cells that are genetically modified to express additional potentially therapeutic growth proteins. For more information on Bioheart, visit http://www.bioheartinc.com.
MyoCell and MyoCell SDF-1 are trademarks of Bioheart, Inc.
About Monebo Technologies, Inc.:
Monebo Technologies, Inc. is a private company based in Austin, Texas, dedicated to developing technology to monitor and interpret the electrical activity of the heart. The company is focused on providing solutions to allow patients and physicians to manage and reduce problems associated with cardiac disease, and have developed technology for ambulatory cardiac monitoring, home care, and pharmaceutical cardiac safety trials. Monebo's proprietary digital signal processing algorithms, highly developed sensor technology, and wireless communication capabilities provide accurate real-time monitoring information, with increased patient mobility http://www.monebo.com
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Contact:
Bioheart, Inc: William Kline, Chief Financial Officer (954) 835-1500
Monebo, Inc: Patrick Kothe, Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer (512) 732-0235 x112
RedChip Companies, Inc. Bioheart Investor Relations: Len Hardison (800) REDCHIP (733-2447), Ext. 118 info@redchip.com
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