Health Robotics Announces Worldwide Launch of the "i.v. Room of the Future" Concept at Las Vegas' ASHP

BOZEN, Italy, November 18 - Health Robotics today announced the worldwide presentation and launch of
its revolutionary vision for "The i.v. Room of the Future" at the American
Society of Health-System Pharmacists' Mid-Year Meeting December 6-10 in Las
Vegas, along with an initial consortium of development partners that
currently includes Biomedical Technology Consulting and MEDarchiver.

"The i.v. Room of the Future is not a product; it is a concept to fulfill
the last frontier in hospital automation after many recent advances to other
life-critical areas such as Operating Rooms and Intensive Care Units. It
delivers increased patient safety, reduced costs, and improved operational
efficiency through enhanced care-team communication and
digital/patient-centered tools; it re-engineers arcane processes; and it
enables situational awareness of the I.V. Medication Management workflow
across the patient-care continuum. We will continue to build upon our current
robots and software automation solutions with equally revolutionary
holographic user interfaces that will take sterility and zero
cross-contamination to a new level" stated Werner Rainer, Health Robotics'
CEO.

The i.v. Room of the Future concept is a "Patient-Aware, All-Digital"
vision depicting a common visual and operational framework that elevates the
overall understanding of the patients' i.v. Medication needs- its clinical,
logistics, quality, costs, and procedural structures; the real-time tracking
of i.v. Medications across the care continuum; the situational awareness of
the i.v. Room's status; the optimization of robotics and software automation
tools to bridge the gap between rising patient volume/acuity and scarce
pharmacy personnel resources; and finally the procedural discipline through
visible steps and/or check-points that ensure that critical steps are taken,
quality procedures are followed, and audit trails are generated as a
by-product of the IV Admixture process.

"While Health Robotics had previously done an excellent job for us with
CytoCare and related clinical software automation tools in safely and
aseptically compounding I.V. Medications, we can now finally track what
happens to the I.V.s once they leave the Pharmacy. It was a shame in the era
of FEDEX and DHL that while we can personally track any letter worldwide in
near real-time, we were previously not able to track within our own hospital
walls the location of the I.V. Bags once they left the Pharmacy, were unaware
of whether they were administered to patients at all unless they were
returned a few days later, thus leading to potential patient safety errors
and repeat I.V. Admixtures; now the Pharmacy acquired real-time tracking of
the status of I.V. doses hospital-wide." stated Tomasso Pettiti MD, Chief of
Medical Staff, Campus Biomedico University Hospital, Rome.

"The results of i.v. Room of the Future and the combination of Health
Robotics products, MEDarchiver workflow tools, and BTC's architecture and
design methodologies yields an end-to-end solution that captures, integrates,
displays, and stores all relevant information produced and needed by medical
devices, general purpose devices, pharmacy information systems, hospital
information systems, and I.V. tracking solutions, at the same time presenting
information in the manner clinicians need it, and enabling customization by
hospital and/or clinical user in order to ensure patient-aware specific
workflow needs, stated Dr. Pietro Palluselli, Chief of Pharmacy, Bozen
General Hospital, Bolzano.

About Health Robotics:

Health Robotics is the undisputed global leading supplier of
life-critical intra-venous medication I.V. Admixture robots, providing
healthcare facilities in 4 continents with robotics technology and software
automation solutions. While architecting the i.v. Room of the Future, its
world-leading solutions CytoCare [hazardous IVs], i.v.STATION [non-hazardous
IVs], i.v.SOFT [workflow engine] and the future development of TPNstation
have and will greatly contribute to ease hospitals' 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 and to decrease other medication errors and sterility
risks; and to work more efficiently, increase throughput, reduce waste, and
contain costs. Additional benefits derived from Health Robotics' vision to
complete the i.v. Room of the Future around 2011 include improving
situational awareness of the I.V. Medication Management processes across the
continuum of care, enhancing multi-disciplinary clinical communications, and
reducing the gap between rising patient volume/acuity and scarce pharmacy
personnel. For more information, please visit www.health-robotics.com

About Biomedical Technology Consulting GmbH (BTC):

BTC is a company established in 2000 that currently operates in Europe
and the Middle East. Founded by a group of biomedical engineers with 20+
years experience in biomedical and clinical engineering, BTC provides
consulting services in the field of biomedical technology, including a wide
range of services tied to the functional planning and activation of several
diagnostic and therapeutic services: from the optimization of the
architecture lay-out and workflow to the customization of the required
equipment (furniture, information systems, etc.) For more information, please
visit www.btc-srl.com

About MEDarchiver S.r.l:

MEDarchiver was founded in 2001 stemming from the collaboration
between worldwide companies operating in the fields of biomedical
engineering, health telematics and clinical engineering. Its mission is to
complete complex and integrated information systems projects for healthcare
facilities. MEDarchiver offers unparalleled expertise in medical device
integration and advanced clinical systems development. MEDarchiver provides
our customers with skilled professional resources (biomedical, clinical,
software and electronic engineers), making sure the path to the end of each
and every project is smooth and trouble-free. For more information, please
visit www.medarchiver.com

    For additional information, please contact:

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

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