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Hooper Holmes Launches Health & Wellness Division at 2007 Disease Management Leadership Forum and Integrated Care Summit

Friday, September 14, 2007 General News
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Sept. 14 Hooper Holmes,Inc. (Amex: HH) today announced that its Health & Wellness Division willexhibit for the first time at the 2007 Disease Management Leadership Forum &Integrated Care Summit from September 16th-19th. The conference is sponsoredby the Disease Management Association of America and the National Associationof Manufacturers and is being held at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
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Hooper Holmes Health and Wellness service is a "one-stop shop" forwellness and disease management companies, providing scheduling support,fulfillment of supplies, blood collection kits, medical screenings, labtesting, and data transmission. As a result, these companies can now reachmore participants, gather more participant data earlier in the diseasemanagement process, better target interventional health support services andmore easily reach participants on their terms, at work or at home.
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"Our capabilities uniquely match the needs of wellness and diseasemanagement companies, and this business sector is important to the overallgrowth of our company," said Chris Behling, President of the company's Health& Wellness Division. "We will use our presence at the Leadership Forum toeducate the industry about our abilities to collect biometric data and deliverend-to-end management of wellness screenings."

Since creation of the Health & Wellness Division in January 2007, HooperHolmes has worked in collaboration with several wellness companies on a seriesof successful pilot programs. In July 2007 the company announced its 25,000themployee screening for health and wellness companies, which marked a majormilestone in bringing national coverage and consistency to the screening ofemployee groups and individuals in a market that is growing at 30% year overyear.

About Health & Wellness

Hooper Holmes' Health and Wellness division leverages Hooper Holmes'unique assets to provide a complete service for wellness, disease management,and managed care companies. Health & Wellness provides scheduling support,fulfillment of supplies, blood collection kits, medical screenings, labtesting, and data transmission. By leveraging a network of over 9,000examiners and a wholly-owned reference lab with medical device manufacturingand robust fulfillment capabilities, the Division helps its customers reachmore participants, gather more participant data earlier in the diseasemanagement process, better target interventional health support services andmore easily reach participants on their terms, at work or at home.

About Hooper Holmes

Hooper Holmes' vision is to be the leader in collecting personal healthdata and transforming it into useful information, enabling customers to takeactions that manage or reduce their risks and expenses. As the leadingprovider of risk assessment services for the insurance industry, Hooper Holmesprovides insurers with the widest range of medical exam, data collection,laboratory testing and underwriting services in the industry.

With presence in over 250 markets and a network of more than 9,000examiners, Hooper Holmes can arrange a medical exam anywhere in the U.S. anddeliver the results to its customers. Each year we arrange more than 2.3million medical exams and process about the same number of samples in ourlaboratory. We underwrite 300,000 cases annually and complete more than twomillion telephone interviews. We are also a leading provider of medical claimsevaluation services used by property and casualty insurance carriers, lawfirms, self-insureds and third-party administrators to handle personal injuryand accident claims.

Certain information contained herein includes information that is forward-looking. The matters referred to in forward-looking statements may be affectedby the risks and uncertainties involving the Company's business. Theseforward-looking statements are qualified in th
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