"Patient Portal Technology Is the New Wave of the Future" Reports Pittsburgh Business Times

Publicly Traded MMRGlobal Relies on Patented Technology to Become Market Leader


LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 8, 2012) - MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) (the "Company" or "MMR") today announced that an article appearing in the Election Day issue of the Pittsburgh Business Times reported on MMR's foundational health information technology patents and claims that these could force providers to purchase or license the Company's products, services or intellectual property to receive their share of stimulus monies under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The stimulus bill provided over $19 billion in incentives to health care professionals to encourage adoption of electronic medical records and personal health record systems, with a key component now mandating that Americans have timely online access to their personal health information by 2014. 

The article, written by Kris B. Mamula, reported on how Personal Health Records, or "patient portal technology," is the focus of an effort by MMRGlobal to license the Company's IP: "MMRGlobal is in the process of contacting numerous hospitals and other health care professionals regarding the enforcement of the company's intellectual property rights and the opportunity to license the technology." 

Lee Kim, a lawyer specializing in patent law and information technology at the Pittsburgh offices of Tucker Arensberg, P.C., said in the article, "Patient portal technology is the new wave of the future. Everybody seems to be jumping on that bandwagon." Kim went on to say that "she was not aware of any local hospitals that have been contacted, but advised administrators not to ignore the letters. Instead, the matter should be referred to legal counsel." (Click Here for story)

According to MMRGlobal CEO Robert H. Lorsch, "It's amazing how this article was published on the day that President Obama was re-elected before anyone knew for certain that he would be. As a result, it appears that health IT and health reform are continuing to move full speed ahead. We believe that MMR has a significant role to play and a tremendous opportunity to leverage patents that are more than seven years in the making to ensure that every American will have a standardized way to access their health information in an easy-to-use, private and secure manner without special hardware or software." 

Today, the Company is sponsoring an exclusive, invitation-only seminar on its patented products and services for health care professionals in downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The seminar will be conducted by Lorsch and hosted by Jonathan Wiesman, Vice President of Nihilent Technologies, Ltd., based in Harrisburg. The seminar will be attended by nursing associations, providers, hospital associations, hospital systems and others in health care representing more than 20,000 employees interacting with millions of patients. The program is part of MMR's effort to educate the market on its suite of personal (MyMedicalRecords) and professional (MMRPro) products and services and answer questions pertaining to the implications of its global patent portfolio. The portfolio includes more than 180 claims pertaining to Personal Health Records and Electronic Medical Records in the United States and also numerous issued patents and pending applications in the U.S. and additional countries of commercial interest including Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Israel and European nations, giving MMR one of the largest proprietary footprints globally.

About MMRGlobal, Inc.
MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc., provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records ("PHRs") and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, and professional organizations and affinity groups. The MyMedicalRecords PHR enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. MyMedicalRecords is built on proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to populate a user's account. The Company's professional offering, MMRPro, is designed to give physicians' offices an easy and cost-effective solution to digitizing paper-based medical records and sharing them with patients in real time through an integrated patient portal. MMR is an Independent Software Vendor Partner with Kodak to deliver an integrated turnkey EMR solution for healthcare professionals. Through its merger with Favrille, Inc. in January 2009, the Company acquired intellectual property biotech assets that include anti-CD20 antibodies and data and samples from its FavId™/Specifid™ vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc. visit www.mmrglobal.com. View demos and video tutorials of the Company's products and services at www.mmrtheater.com.

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