LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 3, 2012) - [ MMRGlobal, Inc. ] (OTCBB: [ MMRF ]) ("MMR"), a leading provider of [ Personal Health Records ] ("PHR"), [ MyEsafeDepositBox ] storage solutions and electronic document management and imaging systems for [ healthcare professionals ] ([ www.mmrprovideos.com ]), today announced that on Friday, December 30, 2011, the Company received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its "Method and System for Providing Online Medical Records." The patent will become part of the Company's portfolio of Health IT patents and is similar to those already issued to MMR in Australia and Singapore and others pending in countries around the world. When issued, this patent and others pending and applied for will be utilized in the Company's suite of Personal Health Record, professional document management and imaging systems and MyEsafeDepositBox ([ www.myesafevideos.com ]) products and services.

According to Robert H. Lorsch, Chairman and CEO of MMRGlobal, "We believe our growing portfolio of patents covering various aspects of Health IT products and services will have significant value to the Company, especially given the national mandate that all Americans have access to an electronic Personal Health Record by 2014 under the HITECH Act. We are encouraged by the value of both our Health IT and Biotech intellectual property portfolios which are already the subject of substantial license agreements."

About MMRGlobal, Inc.

MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. ("MMR"), provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records ("PHRs") and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, and professional organizations and affinity groups. The [ MyMedicalRecords ] PHR enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. MyMedicalRecords 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 through an integrated patient portal. MMR is an Independent Software Vendor Partner with Kodak to deliver an integrated turnkey EMR solution for healthcare professionals. Through its merger with Favrille, Inc. in January 2009, the Company acquired intellectual property biotech assets that include anti-CD20 antibodies and data and samples from its FavId™/Specifid™ vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc. and its products, visit [ www.mmrglobal.com ].

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