Hospital Partners of America Inks Deal With Global Med Technologies(R), Inc. to Automate Its Hospital Blood Banks DENVER, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wyndgate Technologies(R) ("Wyndgate"), a division of Global Med Technologies(R), Inc. (OTC:GLOB) (BULLETIN BOARD: GLOB) ("Global Med" or the "Company"), announced the signing of an agreement for its Advanced Transfusion Management System with Hospital Partners of America based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040226/GLOBALMEDLOGO) Wyndgate's SafeTrace Tx(R) Advanced Transfusion Management System will be installed in its Twelve Oaks Medical Center facility in Houston, Texas. Cheryl Cook, Corporate Manager of Clinical Applications at Hospital Partners of America said, "We chose Wyndgate's transfusion management system to help us provide quality blood products and services to the patients in our hospitals and to automate the management of these services in a very cost effective and efficient manner. SafeTrace Tx will help streamline our lab processes and provide the management reports and tools to help monitor quality indicators and improve outcomes." Thomas Marcinek, President and Chief Operating Officer of Global Med Technologies, Inc., said, "We are very pleased that Hospital Partners of America selected our products for its transfusion services." Mr. Marcinek added, "Hospital Partners of America and Global Med Technologies, Inc. share a mutual commitment to providing high-quality, patient focused healthcare to the communities that they serve." About Hospital Partners of America Hospital Partners of America, Inc. is a privately held healthcare services company established to own and operate general acute care hospitals in partnership with leading physicians throughout the country. Hospital Partners of America was founded in early 2002 to deliver patient-focused healthcare in hospital settings. The Company's approach empowers physician partners by enabling them to be involved in the development, operation and governance of the hospital. For additional information, please visit its web site at http://www.hospitalpartners.com/. About Global Med Technologies, Inc. Global Med Technologies, Inc. is an international e-Health, medical information technology company, providing information management software products and services to the healthcare industry. Its Wyndgate Technologies division is a leading supplier of information management systems to U.S. and international blood centers and hospital transfusion centers. Current clients of Wyndgate's products and services manage more than 3 million units of blood, or over 22% of the U.S. blood supply, each year. Wyndgate's products are also being implemented in Canada, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. Together, the SafeTrace Tx advanced transfusion management system and the SafeTrace(R) donor management system provide Vein-to-Vein(R) tracking from donor collection to patient transfusion. For more information about Global Med's products and services, please call 800-WYNDGATE or visit http://www.globalmedtech.com/, http://www.peoplemed.com/ and http://www.wyndgate.com/. This news release may include statements that constitute forward-looking statements, usually containing the words "believe," "estimate," "project," "expects" or similar expressions. These statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this news release. * Patent Pending http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040226/GLOBALMEDLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Global Med Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Press Inquiries, Patti Larson, Senior Director of Marketing Development, +1-916-404-8492, , or Investor Inquiries, Tom Marcinek, President and COO, +1-916-404-8413, , both of Global Med Technologies, Inc. Web site: http://www.hospitalpartners.com/ http://www.globalmedtech.com/

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