Health Robotics Continues Worldwide Consolidation by Entering the Norwegian Market With Beckman Automation

By Health Robotics, PRNE
Sunday, October 31, 2010

BOZEN, Sud-Tirol, Italy, November 1, 2010 - Health Robotics today announced that it recently signed an exclusive
distribution agreement in Norway for its CytoCare, i.v.STATION, and i.v.SOFT
world-leading technologies with local Pharmacy Technology leader Beckman
Automation AS. This partnership represents Health Robotics' market entry into
its 12th new country in 2010, persisting on its worldwide quest to
pervasively provide safe and cost-effective Intravenous (IV) Admixture
Compounding Automation to hospitals all over the world.

"Throughout my 15 years of experience within pharmacy automation and
hospital medical equipment, I have closely followed the development of
pharmaceutical robots. I personally witnessed CytoCare's operation in Tokyo
during a recent visit to TOSHO, and I was very impressed by Health Robotics'
patented technological achievements. We look forward to promoting and
servicing CytoCare, i.v.STATION, and i.v.SOFT in Norway. All of us at Beckman
Automation are very pleased that this exclusive partnership enables us to
contribute to improved patient care through a much safer and efficient
workflow in the IV room", stated Tom Beckman, CEO of Beckman Automation AS.

CytoCare is the first and only robotic system proven to work anywhere in
the world for the safe and sterile preparation of Hazardous Intravenous
Admixtures, including Chemotherapy, Monoclonal Antibody Therapy, and Gene
Therapy. With 56 installations currently under contract in 17 countries,
CytoCare has long proven its unmatched flexibility to adapt to diverse
pharmacy workflows and proprietary IV consumables in 4 continents. While
several companies attempted the development of Chemotherapy Robotics as far
back as 22 years ago, Cytocare is still the only robot that has been able to
break the entry-barrier into the Intravenous Chemotherapy Automation Sector.

"I relish at the prospects of working with Beckman Automation to rapidly
deploy our unique and world-leading technologies in Norway. Beckman
Automation is a knowledge-intensive company with more than 15 years of
experience within the pharmacy automation and hospital's medical equipment
sectors. Beckman Automation has built an outstanding reputation by delivering
full-scale medication packaging systems, currently serving thousands of
Norwegian patients every day. As the exclusive distributor of TOSHO Inc.,
Global Factories, and Pharma Engineering products, Beckman Automation has a
unique market position within the Medication Management sector in Norway, and
represents an ideal complement to Health Robotics' CytoCare, i.v.STATION, and
i.v.SOFT", stated Gaspar DeViedma, Health Robotics' Executive Vice President.

About Health Robotics:

Health Robotics is the undisputed global leading supplier of
life-critical intra-venous medication robots and related technologies,
providing over 160 hospital installations in 5 continents with robotics
technology and software automation solutions deployed utilizing virtual
high-availability technology. Its world-leading solutions CytoCare(TM)
[hazardous IVs], i.v.STATION(TM) [non-hazardous IVs], i.v.SOFT(TM) [manual
compounding software], MEDarchiver(TM) [life-critical clinical information
system], and TPNstation(TM) [totally-automated parenteral nutrition] have and
will greatly contribute to ease hospitals' growing pressures to improve
patient safety, increase throughput and contain costs. Through the effective
and efficient production of sterile, accurate, tamper-evident and
ready-to-administer IVs, Health Robotics' solutions help hospitals eliminate
life-threatening drug and diluent exchange errors, decrease other medical
mistakes and sterility risks, work more efficiently, reduce waste and
controlled substances' diversion, and diminish the gap between rising patient
volume/acuity and scarce medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff. For more
information, please visit: www.health-robotics.com

About Beckman Automation AS:

Beckman Automation is a company focused on the field of Pharmacy
Automation, including oral medication packaging, de-blistering technologies,
and medication detection systems that automatically and independently verify
the contents and quality of oral medication pouches processed by multiple
pharmacy tablet packagers. For more information, please visit:
www.beckman.no/

    For additional information, please contact:

    Claudia Flaim, Marketing Coordinator
    Altmanstrasse 9/A, Bozen, I-39100
    flaim@health-robotics.com
    Phone: +39-0471-200-372

For additional information, please contact: Claudia Flaim, Marketing Coordinator, Altmanstrasse 9/A, Bozen, I-39100, flaim at health-robotics.com, Phone: +39-0471-200-372

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