Health Robotics Announces the Early Release of the i.v.STATION(TM) Profile Option and DUPHAT Presentation

BOZEN, Italy - Health Robotics today announced the early release in the second half of
2009 of its i.v.STATION Profile option with a presentation [P13] at the Dubai
International Pharmaceuticals and Technologies Conference and Exhibition
(DUPHAT) www.duphat.ae/parallelSession.php on March 31, 2009 by Gaspar
DeViedma, along with related booth exhibitions.

This i.v.STATION Profile option [at no additional cost] was originally
scheduled to be released in 2010, and to be concurrently timed with
non-American hospitals that demanded secure [biometric-ID]
nurse-station-based access to IV Medications prescribed for a given patient’s
electronic medical record [patient-specific]. This i.v.STATION Profile option
works similarly to Profile options of existing Medication Dispensing Cabinets
from multiple vendors [Pyxis, Omnicell, McKesson, Amerisource Bergen, etc.]
routinely utilized for dispensing Oral Medications and
Not-Ready-to-Administer Vials in nurse stations [wards] around the world.

During the pre-installation meetings recently conducted by i.v.STATION
architects’ Paolo Giribona and Gaspar DeViedma with the 8 American customers
scheduled to install i.v.STATION in Summer/Fall of 2009, it became evident
that at least some of our American customers desired to join their
non-American counterparts in complementing the use of i.v.STATION’s central
pharmacy compounding with i.v.STATION’s distributed compounding at selected
patients’ locations that lacked pharmacists’ physical presence on a 24/7
basis. Consequently, Health Robotics has decided to release the i.v.STATION
Profile option six to twelve months early.

“Our plan is to start an i.v.STATION Profile beta implementation in one
of our Adult Intensive Care Units. We expect that having this type of
technology near the point-of-care will improve turn-around-time issues and
will provide immediate life-critical coverage where our pharmacists cannot be
physically present on a 24/7 basis. We expect that the i.v.STATION Profile
Robot will deliver IV Medications to our Nursing staff, after they have been
safely reviewed and approved remotely by our staff pharmacists, including an
audit trail of all i.v.STATION Profile compounding steps and a digital
picture review of the medication vials utilized in the compounding process”,
said Scott Evans, Pharm.D., Chief Operating Officer, USC University Hospital
and USC Norris Cancer Hospital.

i.v.STATION represents a revolutionary approach in the quest for safe,
accurate, efficient, cost effective, and ready-to-administer IV Admixtures.
Constructed around a scalable, distributed, and fail-safe architecture,
i.v.STATION offers unprecedented final container flexibility, life-critical
patient safety, and robotic precision and performance. i.v.STATION may be
deployed in a variety of locations, including central and satellite
pharmacies and direct patient care areas, due to its self-contained form, ISO
Class 5 environment, and small “foot print”. Pharmacies may, for the first
time, choose a robotic configuration that suits their needs, rather than
being forced into the dated alternative of “one-size-fits-all,
million-dollar-plus” robots. Whether a Pharmacy chooses a single or multiple
i.v.STATION configurations, it will benefit from fully automated compounding
while producing its ready-to-administer IV doses in a variety of syringe,
bag, vial, and tamper-evident caps from diverse medical suppliers such as
Baxter, B.Braun, Beckton Dickinson, Hospira, IMF, Covidien, and Terumo.
i.v.STATION also supports “just-in-time IV filling” to reduce urgent
turn-around-time issues of life-critical patients while avoiding premium
prices associated with pre-filled bags and syringes and high cost CST
devices, which are made obsolete by the i.v.STATION technology.

“While some competitors are entering the fifth annual delay in five
years, halting all installations and manufacturing for at least a year in
order to re-design their robots, and withdrawing products and features from
their web sites, Health Robotics keeps demonstrating on-time and on-budget
deliveries to customers worldwide and proving to the market that the future
of safe, sterile, and ready-to-administer IV Medications is already a
reality. There is no longer a need to wait to see if decade-long promises
will be fulfilled”, stated Werner Rainer, Health Robotics’ CEO.

About Health Robotics:

Health Robotics is the global leading supplier of life-critical
intra-venous medication preparation, compounding, and dispensing Robots, with
forty-five-times more units sold that all of its competitors combined, and
providing healthcare facilities in four continents with robotics technology
and software automation solutions. The world-leading solutions CytoCare
[hazardous IVs] and i.v.STATION [non-hazardous IVs] have and will greatly
contribute to ease global hospitals’ and clinics’ growing pressures to
improve patient safety through the effective and efficient production of
sterile, accurate, and ready-to-administer IVs, to eliminate life-threatening
drug-exchange errors, to decrease other medication errors and contamination
risks, and to work more efficiently, increase throughput, reduce waste, and
contain costs.

For additional information, please contact:

Health Robotics,
Gaspar G. DeViedma,
Altmanstrasse 9A, Bozen, Sud-Tyrol, I-39100,
USA: +1-609-980-7976,
EUROPE: +39-346-963-4934,
gaspar.deviedma@health-robotics.com .

Source: Health Robotics SRL

For additional information, please contact: Health Robotics, Gaspar G. DeViedma, Altmanstrasse 9A, Bozen, Sud-Tyrol, I-39100, USA: +1-609-980-7976, EUROPE: +39-346-963-4934, gaspar.deviedma at health-robotics.com .