MMRF NEWS --
LOS ANGELES, CA, Apr 05, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- MMR Information
Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) (MMR) announced today that Douglas H. Helm, a member
of MMR's board of di rectors and a career insurance executive, will oversee the
Company's recently-concluded agreement with Chartis. Helm will be responsible
for helping the Company launch and deploy MMR's MyMedicalRecords.com Personal
Health Record (PHR) (www.mymedicalrecords.com) and MyESafeDepositBox virtual
vault to Chartis local companies worldwide. The Chartis PHR is expected to be
introduced in 160 countries and will initially be available in English, Spanish,
German, French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese.
Helm's most recent post was as President and Chief Operating Officer of Plenary
Insurance Services, an employee benefit consulting subsidiary of Employers
Direct, until its sale in late 2009. Over the course of his career, he has
distinguished himself in the personal lines and workers' compensation business
and by introducing leading-edge, technology-driven insurance products and sales
tools.
According to Helm, who will work with MMR CEO Bo b Lorsch to manage the Insurance
and Banking Services for the Company, "MMR's alliance with Chartis represents a
unique opportunity to be the largest deployment of an online Personal Health
Record service. The convenience and potentially life-saving advantages for
individuals and their families of maintaining a portable PHR are well
documented, particularly in emergencies such as fires, floods, tornadoes and
earthquakes. Now this important service, built on MMR's proprietary
applications, will be made available to many of the more than 40 million clients
that make up the worldwide Chartis policyholder base."
Helm began his insurance career with CNA as a special risks underwriter in the
Accident & Health division. He was among the first to develop and apply Internet
technologies to redefine distribution strategies for marketing personal lines
insurance in the U.S. when, as Chief Executive Officer of the P&C Group of
InsWeb Corporatio n, he led the team that provided the first real-time
interactive auto insurance quote direct to consumers via the Internet. Helm was
also Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing at National Information
Group, South San Francisco. While there, he managed the acquisition of Fastrac
Systems, Inc., one of the leading insurance trackers and call centers for the
automotive leasing and property insurance industries. He also formed National
Information Group subsidiary, Pinnacle Data Corporation, and was instrumental in
its landmark nationwide development project that converted over 100,000 paper
FEMA Flood maps into digital data accessible over the Internet, a revolutionary
new product for mortgage banks, insurance carriers and brokers and government
agencies. When National Information Group was acquired by The First American
Corporation, Santa Ana, California, Helm served as Senior Vice President,
Business Development of its subsidiary, Fi rst American Real Estate Information
Services, Inc.
Helm has consulted on insurance-related development projects throughout the U.S.
and internationally, developing marketing and sales distribution strategies for
insurance carriers and financial service companies in London, Moscow, and the
People's Republic of China. He holds a J.D. from Northwestern School of Law,
Portland, Oregon, and is a member of the Oregon State Bar. He also is a licensed
insurance broker in California.
MMR INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC.
MMR Information Systems, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary,
MyMedicalRecords, Inc., provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health
Records and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers,
healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, unions and
professional organizations and affinity groups. MyMedicalRecords enables
individuals and families to access their medica l records and other important
documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills
anytime from anywhere using the Internet. The MyMedicalRecords Personal Health
Record 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. MMR is an Independent Software
Vendor Partner with Kodak to deliver an integrated turnkey EMR solution for
small to mid-size physician practices. MMR is also an integrated service
provider on Google Health. MMR's Board of Advisors includes Dr. Buzz Aldrin,
Apollo 11 Astronaut, Hector V. Barreto, former Administrator of the U.S. Small
Business Administration, Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt, former U.S. Congressman who
served as both Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the U.S. House of
Representatives, Asa Hutchinson, former U.S. Congressman and First Under
Secretary of Homeland Security, and "Sugar" Ray Leonard, professional athlete
and entrepreneur. For more information about the Company and its products, visit
www.mymedicalrecords.com and view our video demonstrations at
www.mymedicalrecordsonline.com/videos.
Forward-Looking Statements
Any statements contained in this press release that refer to future events or
other non-historical matters are forward-looking statements. MMR Information
Systems, Inc. and Chartis International disclaim any intent or obligation to
update any forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are
based on the reasonable expect ations of both parties as of the date of this
press release and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially from current expectations. The information
discussed in this release is subject to various risks and uncertainties related
to changes in MMR Information Systems, Inc.'s relationship with Chartis
International, the parties' business prospects, results of operations or
financial condition, international government regulations and such other risks
and uncertainties as detailed from time to time in MMR Information Systems,
Inc.'s and Chartis International's public filings with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission.
CONTACT: Bobbie Volman
MMR Information Systems, Inc.
(310) 476-7002, Ext. 2005
bvolman@mmrmail.com
Michael Selsman
Public Communications Co.
(310) 553-5732
ms@publiccommunications.biz
SOURCE: MMR Information Systems, Inc.
CONTACT: mailto:bvolman@mmrmail.com
mailto:ms@publiccommunications.biz
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