t+ Medical, U.K. Leader of Mobile Phone Based Disease Management Telemedicine Solutions, Completes Expansion to U.S.

Utilizing innovative mobile phone and web technologies, U.S. healthcare professionals can now, for the first time, efficiently and effectively manage and care for their chronic disease clients, anywhere and anytime. t+ Medical Inc., a privately funded medical software company that delivers clinically validated enterprise disease management, remote monitoring and wellness solutions, recently completed its expansion plans to North America. t+ Medical will showcase U.S. enterprise designed solutions at HIMSS 2008, IT Healthcare Conference and Exhibition, Orlando, FL, February 24th to 28th, 2008.

As chronic diseases reach epidemic proportions around the world, our products and services allow healthcare systems to evolve from traditional reactive episodic hospital based care to continuous, proactive and preventative models of care with real-time monitoring of patients.

Chapel Hill, NC (PRWEB) February 21, 2008 -- t+ Medical Inc., a privately funded medical software company that delivers clinically validated enterprise disease management, remote monitoring and wellness solutions, recently completed its expansion plans to North America. t+ Medical will showcase U.S. enterprise designed solutions at HIMSS 2008, IT Healthcare Conference and Exhibition, Orlando, FL, February 24th to 28th, 2008. The company's parent company, t+ Medical Ltd. was founded in collaboration with Oxford University, England in 2002, and today is one of the leading manufacturers of chronic disease management and remote monitoring systems throughout Europe. Six months ago the company selected Chapel Hill, NC as their Americas headquarters based on the close proximity to Research Triangle Park, which offers t+ Medical access to an experienced high-tech and clinical employee base.

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"t+ Medical's move into the United States, along with our latest round of funding and clinical validation, are testimony to the robustness of our products, business model and also the future of healthcare," says Tim Clover, Chief Executive Officer of t+ Medical, Ltd. "As chronic diseases reach epidemic proportions around the world, our products and services allow healthcare systems to evolve from traditional reactive episodic hospital based care to continuous, proactive and preventative models of care with real-time monitoring of patients."

Across multiple U.S. cellular networks and mobile phones, t+ Medical enterprise solutions enables healthcare professionals to efficiently and effectively, remotely monitor, communicate and gather patient information. t+ Medical's innovative technology collects real-time patient data (for example, daily blood glucose or blood pressure readings) using the patient's mobile phone or Smartphone (including RIM and Palm), then processes and stores this information on a secure server. Immediate, personalized patient feedback is returned to the patient's mobile phone to support and improve patient self management. Healthcare professional, patient and family can view patient data securely on the web. Healthcare professional can intervene at anytime directly from the web to the patient's mobile phone, via t+ secured text messaging technology to supply personalized coaching or automated quality reminders.

Chronic diseases affect over half the U.S. population and have an annual impact on the U.S. economy of over $1 trillion - which could balloon to $6 trillion by the middle of the century. t+ Medical's V.P. and General Manager, Gary Abrahams states, "Clearly not enough is being done in the United States. To have any significant impact on improving the clinical and financial outcomes associated with chronic disease patients we must introduce technologies that can affect widespread utilization throughout the U.S. population. By leveraging the most ubiquitous device, the mobile phone, t+ Medical's enterprise designed solutions will revolutionize the management and monitoring of individuals living with chronic disease."

t+ Medical's clinically validated solutions can be offered as a new patient or member service or be fully integrated into any existing disease management, wellness, home health and e-Health programs to improve patient or member compliance. In addition, t+ solutions can also be used to remotely monitor, query and gather subject information for timely receipt and analysis of subject data for clinical trials.

About t+ Medical:
t+ Medical offers effective and efficient disease management, remote monitoring and wellness solutions for disease management organizations, hospitals, group practices, payers and employers. With over sixteen completed trials and more underway, t+ Solutions have been proven to increase testing compliance and monitoring, leading to better patient outcomes and reduced medical costs. Solutions include and not limited to Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Hypertension, Weight Management and more.

t+ Medical enhances healthcare professional decision making by collecting complete, up to date patient information; improves communication between patient and provider with web and secured text messaging capabilities; and provides patients' a social care network of family, friends and providers, to empower them to improve outcomes.

For more information, please visit t+ Medical, Inc. or 1.877.MYTPLUS (1.877.698.7587), or stop by Booth 3709 at HIMSS.

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Contact:
Kristen Patel
Marketing Manager
919.442.3041
www.tplusmedical.com

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