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University of Alabama - Birmingham Joins HeRO™ Patient Outcomes Study April 15, 2006 - Charlottesville, VA. Medical Predictive Science Corporation (MPSC) announced that the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) hospital has joined the ongoing outcomes study of the Heart Rate Observation system (HeRO™). The HeRO™ system is used in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to analyze the heart rate variability of infants and to quantify the prevalence of abnormal patterns, such as transient decelerations and reduced baseline variability, in each patient's heart rate signal. The outcomes study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, seeks to quantify the effects of the HeRO™ system on patient care in the NICU. Specific study endpoints include length of stay, the number of days of mechanical ventilation, and antibiotic usage. The UAB nursery contains 107 beds located on 3 different floors of the hospital, making it by far the largest study site enrolled in the outcomes trial, which also includes the University of Virginia (33 beds) and Wake Forest University (32 beds). "This is a major achievement for the research effort. We are getting more study data from UAB than from the other two sites combined," said Will King, CEO of MPSC. # # # Medical Predictive Science Corporation (http://www.mpsc.biz) is engaged in the development of computational diagnostic and bio-informatic technologies for the healthcare industry. MPSC is committed to saving lives and reducing healthcare expenditures through the development of effective clinical diagnostic and decision support tools. These products use computational diagnostic methods to make the early diagnosis of clinical illness through continuous, non-invasive patient monitoring, and to provide diagnostic information as well as decision support to the physician. HeRO is a trademark of Medical Predictive Science Corporation.


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