WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 23, 2006 -- ALR Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: ALRT) announces a heart transplant patient utilizing the ALRT health management compliance reminder and monitoring system is achieving significant success with compliance to her complex medication and treatment schedule. The patient is a heart transplant patient who began the pilot in February 2006, and the first transplant patient within the Missouri Medicaid Program to use the ALRT500 system. The complexity of the individual's regimen had been causing significant stress for the patient and her family and timing of administration is so crucial to the health of the patient. Missed medications and treatments or even lateness of administration can result in adverse affects and complications. Losing a transplanted organ has the obvious health effects with the patient as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional costs to health insurance providers.
