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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

GTX Corp Reports 250% Increase in Revenue for Third Quarter 2011 with the GPS Shoe Launch, Increased App Users and the Lifespire Code Amber Alertag

  • · GTX crossed 1.1 million app users in 130 countries
  • · Releases NEW version of the Code Amber Alertag with partner Lifespire
  • · GTX Corp’s Code Amber Alertag automates patient medical updates with direct RX provider interface


Los Angeles, November 9, 2011 – GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO), a leader in customizable, 2-way GPS Personal Location Services (PLS) solutions, today announced results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011, to reflect a 250 % increase in revenue over the same prior year’s quarter.

The Company reported a significant increase in revenues while continuing to trend down on expenses with an approximate 23% decrease over the same quarter last year. The revenue increase marks the initial shipment associated with a 4-year contract to supply Aetrex Worldwide Inc. with GTX Corp.’s custom miniaturized 2-way PLS solution for the multi-patent award winning GPS Shoe available online this month at www.aetrex.com/gps

“With the official launch of the GPS Shoe and the highly anticipated update to the Code Amber Alertag, we expect to see continued growth in revenues and customers.” stated Patrick Bertagna, CEO of GTX Corp. “In addition, The Company has recently received hundreds of licensing inquiries from all over the world and we expect to begin signing distribution agreements with several new partners by year end or early 2012.”

GTX Corp recently partnered with Lifespire to release the latest version of the Code Amber Alertag which will help accelerate the treatment and care of those in need and potentially save hundreds of lives. Lifespire operates residential facilities for the elderly and disabled in New York with 5,000 residents and 400 staff and contractors. Lifespire plans to use the Code Amber Alertag to store and retrieve the medical information of residents and staff. With a direct interface to RX providers, GTX automates the Alertag database whenever a resident's medication changes or is updated.

About GTX Corp (GTXO.OB) a leader in enterprise 2-way GPS (Global Positioning System) real-time personal location services (PLS) was founded in 2002 and is based in Los Angeles, California with distributors in Mexico, Australia and Nepal and customers in 130 countries. GTX Corp utilizes the latest in miniaturized, low power consumption technology and offers a robust enterprise GPS and cellular location platform to track in real time the whereabouts of people, pets, and high valued assets. Answering the “where is” question through a licensing business model and providing a complete end-to-end solution of hardware, middleware, apps, connectivity and professional services, letting you know where someone or something is at the touch of a button. GTX Corp also owns and operates LOCiMOBILE, Inc which develops GPS applications for smartphones and tablets, Code Amber News Service, and Code Amber Alertag. The Company has an aggressive intellectual property strategy and owns an extensive portfolio of patents, patents pending, registered trademarks, copy rights and URL's.

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The information made available in this press release contains certain forward-looking statements which reflect GTX Corp.’s current view of future events and financial performance. Wherever used, the words “estimate”, “expect”, “plan”, “anticipate”, “believe”, “may” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. Any such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and the company’s future results of operations could differ materially from historical results or current expectations. Some of these risks include, without limitation, the company’s ability to execute on its contracts, customers acceptance of its products, the market acceptance of two-way tracking devices, managing regulatory compliance and/or other factors that may be described in the company’s annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and/or other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Future economic and industry trends that could potentially impact revenue and profitability are difficult to predict. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results express or implied therein will not be realized.

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Friday, February 18, 2011

Jagtag launches mass-market QR Code solution

Mobile marketing services provider Jagtag introduced a new QR Code solution enabling consumers to scan codes and access mobile multimedia regardless of device type. QR Codes Powered by Jagtag work on any camera-enabled handset--consumers snap and send a photo of the code, and Jagtag replies with a multimedia message sent directly to the phone's inbox, rather than as a link to the relevant media--e.g., opt-ins, sweepstakes entries, quizzes and so on. According to Jagtag, device detection technology guarantees consumers receive content optimized for their particular device.

For more:
- read this release

The Code Amber Alertag also uses QR codes to immediately access personal medical information by "snapping" the code on the Alertag with any QR reader enabled wireless device. Read more about how the Code Amber Alertag works here

Friday, January 7, 2011

Newcastle team claims green tea cuts dementia risk.

Regularly drinking green tea could protect the brain against Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, according to scientists at Newcastle University.

The study showed chemicals created when the tea is digested help prevent the degeneration of brain cells.

Similar research has hinted the beverage could also help protect against some forms of cancer.

The Alzheimer's Research Trust said diet and lifestyle were important in assessing the risks of the disease.

The study is published in the academic journal Phytomedicine.

'Diet and lifestyle'

Project leader Dr Ed Okello, from the university's School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, said: "We found when green tea is digested, the resulting chemicals are actually more effective against key triggers of Alzheimer's development than the undigested form of the tea.

Continue reading this article at BBC News.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Code Amber Alertag | How It Works | | Electronic Medical Records | Digital Medical Records | EMR

Code Amber Alertag | How It Works | | Electronic Medical Records | Digital Medical Records | EMR

Over 100,000 people die every year from preventable medical errors. That makes this the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. Over 90% of those errors could have been avoided if the EMT or doctor had quick and easy access to vital information about the patient when first treated.

Emergency personnel are trained to look for Emergency Medical Information when they arrive on the scene. Unfortunately, they rarely find it. With Code Amber Alertag they can access the medical information you chose to make available, including dangerous allergic reactions,

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

19.2 Billion or 20 bucks?

The government has mandated that all medical records be converted from paper to digital records over the next few years. They have also budgeted 19.2 billion dollars in stimulus money to be handed out to help defray the cost of doing so. Those are your tax dollars by the way. The cost could rise to over 27 billion dollars over the next 10 years.

"A big part of where the government is going is to try to make the data flow more freely amongst providers and hospitals so that your data goes with you instead of staying with the hospital or doctor," said Dr. Michael Swiernik, UCLA Director of Medical Information.

Sounds great, right? But what actually has to happen to make it work?

Currently, some hospitals are making their patient information systems available to their participating doctors so the medical records can be shared and updated between them. It’s a start but not how the program is supposed to work. See Dr. Swiernik’s statement above. Your data is supposed to go with you, not just “staying with the hospital or doctor”.

For the program to work as proposed there has to be a centralized data base that contains all of the electronic medical records for every patient that is accessible by every doctor, clinic, hospital etc. Also, each doctor, hospital, clinic etc. must update the database anytime the patient’s information changes. Updates are the easy part.

Each health care provider must input the patients’ information to create the database. There is the rub. Who goes first? Who starts the process of putting your medical records into the database? How is the database accessed? What equipment is required? How does your doctor get registered as an authorized health care provider in the system?

Do you think that your doctor has the staff or the time and equipment to input every one of their patients' information into that database? Probably not.

Here is a simple $20 solution to a multi billion dollar problem - Code Amber Alertag.

My personal medical records are available to any doctor, hospital, emergency room, EMT or clinic I choose to give access. Anywhere in the world.

When I got my Alertag I simply went to the web site and entered my personal medical information into the secure (256 bit encryption – just like my bank) server. There are two types of information, public and private.

The public information is accessible by entering my ten digit security code on the secure web page and is intended to be used by emergency personnel, like EMT’s and emergency room staff, if I am in an accident or otherwise incapacitated. Public information includes any allergies, conditions, treatments or my current medications. This information enables emergency personnel to treat me appropriately based on my current information.

The public information also provides emergency contact information so they can contact my wife for access to my private records, by entering my PIN on the secure web site, if I can’t give it to them and they need additional information on my conditions. And my wife will be glad to know where I am and that I am being taken care of properly.

My private medical records area contains extensive information regarding my medical history over my entire life time. All of this information I entered myself, including images of old x-rays, and now can be maintained by me and my doctors.

Of course I also got Alertags for my wife, my daughter, son-in-law and my two beautiful granddaughters.

To sum it up we are in total control of our personal medical records and you can be too. They are available instantly anywhere in the world and it only cost me 20 bucks each.

So that’s how you can solve a 19 billion dollar problem with a $20 product.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

When You Travel do You Carry Your Medical Records With You?

What would happen if you or a member of your family were in a strange city or even another country and had a medical emergency?

Your personal medical records are back home in your Doctor's office in a file on a shelf. Worse yet, your Doctor's office is closed and they can only help you if the answering service can contact them right away and your Doctor can remember enough about your medications, allergies and any conditions your are being treated for to help your attending physician, or Emergency Medical Technician, with the proper course of treatment. It could be worse, if you are unconscious or incapacitated and cannot speak for yourself, the attending medical professional would not even know whom to try to contact, leaving them no option but to do their best with no pertinent information about you or your current condition.

When time is of the essence, the above scenario is unacceptable and could cost you, or a loved one, their life.

Over 100,000 people die every year from preventable medical errors. That makes this the fifth leading cause of death in the United States alone. Over 90% of those errors could have been avoided if the EMT or doctor had quick and easy access to vital information about the patient when first treated.

Emergency personnel are trained to look for Emergency Medical Information when they arrive on the scene. Unfortunately, they rarely find it.

Fortunately, you have a secure and affordable solution for you and your family that will protect you world wide.

The Code Amber Alertag is always with you and provides secure access (256 bit encryption, the same as your bank uses) to your Personal Medical Records electronically within seconds from anywhere in the world from any Internet enabled device including smart phones. Literally everything a Doctor or EMT would need to know in order to treat you or a family member at their finger tips in seconds.

Code Amber Alertag, never leave home without it.

Monday, August 9, 2010

AT&T Launches QR Code Scanning App for BlackBerry and Android

AT&T Launches QR Code Scanning App for BlackBerry and Android

We’ve talked a lot about how QR codes are poised to take off in the mainstream and now AT&T is jumping on the bandwagon with a new set of tools for Android and BlackBerry phones.

The company has just announced its AT&T Code Scanner application and its AT&T Create-a-Code service. Code Scanner is a free app for BlackBerry and Android (Android) devices that scans both 2D (QR and datamatrix) and 1D (UPC and EAN) barcodes. You can get it from the BlackBerry App World or the Android Market (Android Market) or by going to http://scan.mobi/ on your mobile device.

Information on the Code Amber Alertag is instantly accessible by scanning the QR code on the Alertag.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

730,000 kids die every year due to accidents

kids ages 5 to 14 get hurt more often than bikers of any other age! Among American children and adolescents, sports and recreational activities comprise about 21 percent of all traumatic brain injuries. Head injury is the leading cause of wheeled sports related deaths. In fact, among children ages 0 to 14, traumatic brain injuries result in 400,000 emergency room visits every year, according to healthline.com. Thankfully, more kids are wearing helmets and carrying Code Amber Alertags.

A study by HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says sports-related injuries are a major factor of kids visits to the emergency room. In 2006, 22 percent of hospital emergency department visits were for kids ages 5 to 17 due to sports-related injuries. Boys had three times more visits than girls. Teens also outnumbered younger children – teens were five times more likely to be treated in emergency departments.

When a kid arrive at the hospital having suffered a head trauma, they may be incoherent or worse unconscious. Who will answer the hospital staffs 20 questions…Allergies, preexisting conditions, blood type, medications and so on.

That is why the prepared parent has each of their children… and themselves carry the Code Amber Alertag. The unthinkable may happen and if it did you would be assured of the proper treatment because the health professions providing services were well informed.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Summer myths that put kids at risk

So says NANCY CHURNIN / Staff writer of The Dallas Morning News

Emergency-room professionals have their own name for the long, lovely, lazy days that kids look forward to in summer: trauma season. Because that’s when hospitals see a spike in drownings and heat-related accidents.

MYTH: Pool parties are safe as long as adults are around.
FACT: In a minute, a child can go under water. In two or three minutes, the child can lose consciousness. In four or five, the child could suffer irreversible brain damage or die. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning is the second-leading cause of unintentional, injury-related death for children 1 to 14 years old, second only to car and transportation-related accidents.

MYTH: It’s safe to keep kids in car seats when the driver gets out for a quick errand. FACT: The temperature inside a car can rise quickly in the summer, leading to brain damage, kidney failure and death in minutes. When outside temperatures are between 80 F to 100 F, the temperature inside a car can quickly rise to more than 170 F. With an outdoor temperature of 83 F, internal car temperatures can reach 109 F within 15 minutes, even with windows rolled down two inches. Children are less able to handle extreme heat than adults.

Sources: Dr. Philip Ewing, physician in the emergency department at Children’s Medical Center; Dr. Mark Till, chairman of emergency medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas; Terri Ford, community health outreach manager at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth; and Dr. John F. Marcucci, emergency department medical director at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano.

There are some simple steps that you can take to prepare yourself and your family should an unintentional accident occur while having some summer fun.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

GTX CORP RECEIVES FIRST COMMERCIAL ORDER FOR 3,000 GPS DEVICES FROM AETREX WORLDWIDE; EXPANDS MOBILE GPS TRACKING SERVICES INTO AUSTRALIA

WITH new DISTRIBUITION partner TRACKING CENTRAL

www.gtxcorp.com

Los Angeles, CA – June 30, 2010 – GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO), a leader in customizable, patented two-way GPS Tracking Personal Location Services (PLS) solutions, received its first commercial order from Aetrex Worldwide, Inc. (www.aetrex.com) , a leading maker of orthotic and therapeutic shoes. Aetrex’s initial order for 3,000 GPS devices to be embedded in the Aetrex Ambulator® collection brings a durable, reliable solution for monitoring the location of the 5.3 million seniors in the US afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. GTX will begin to ship the devices this summer in order for Aetrex to prepare for the launch date which is scheduled to coincide with the National Alzheimer Association memory walks this fall.


GTX Corp’s GPS-enabled shoes provide caregivers and loved ones a safe, unobtrusive means to easily find those afflicted with Alzheimer’s that might wander and become lost. GTX Corp’s eight patents for the GPS Shoe cover a GPS transceiver module that is placed within the shoe. The module transmits the wearer’s location coordinates to a central monitoring station which disseminates the location data through the use of proprietary software, cellular connectivity, the GTX Corp middleware platform and secure viewing portal. Aetrex will initially offer the shoe through www.foot.com; www.gpsshoe.com and a select group of assisted living facilities.


In another significant development that advances GTX Corp’s strategy of worldwide penetration of the GPS tracking markets, GTX Corp has announced an agreement with Australia’s Tracking Central. Tracking Central, a service provider for GPS Tracking products and solutions has licensed and will utilized GTX Corp’s tracking platform and portal to provide personal location services to the Australian market.


GTX’s VP Business Development Carlos Briceño who recently spoke on a panel at The first People Tracking and Location USA Conference states, “Our agreement with Tracking Central represents an additional channel of distribution in a part of the world that has shown a tremendous interest in personal GPS Tracking solutions and opens up new opportunities for hardware sales and monthly subscriptions. These latest milestones further expand our strategic initiative to increase our global penetration, while our partnerships validate our embedded licensing model.”

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Claude Raiola, Tracking Central Director, concludes, “We are excited to be partnering with GTX Corp, as Tracking Central introduces personal GPS Tracking solutions to the Australian Market.”

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About GTX Corp with you ®

GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO.OB) a leader in embedded real-time GPS Tracking personal location services (PLS) was founded in 2002 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Known for its game changing patented micro GPS device in a shoe – the patented smart shoe and its block buster smartphone GPS Tracking App which hit number two on the iTunes top grossing chart, the Company continues to pave the way with innovative geo specific and proximity alerting applications that help you know where someone or something is at the touch of a button. Committed to being the "better people finder", GTX Corp owns and operates LOCiMOBILE, Inc. which develops location based social networks (LBSN) applications for smart phones, Code Amber News Service, and Code Amber Alertag. The Company has an aggressive intellectual property strategy and owns an extensive portfolio of patents, patents pending, registered trademarks, copyrights and website properties. GTX Corp is well positioned to capture the PLS Market through its diverse product platform, licensing model, brand recognition, traction in the market and strategic partners.

For information regarding GTX Corp: www.gtxcorp.com please contact

Henry Eshelman

Public Relations

323.337.9042
heshelman@platformgrp.com

Investor Relations
213.489.3019 ext 646
ir@gtxcorp.com

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Monday, June 28, 2010

"The lazy, hazy days of summer are a lot deadlier than parents may recognize"

So says Angela Mickalide, program director for the Washington-based group dedicated to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury.

According to Trauma Season: A National Study of the Seasonality of Unintentional Childhood Injury, the campaign's study of six years of data reveals accidents are the leading cause of death in children aged 14 and under, with kids 10 to 14 particularly vulnerable.

The study's findings confirm reports from health professionals that child injuries and deaths from drowning, falls, bike, pedestrian and motor vehicle accidents spike every summer.

There are some simple steps that you can take to prepare yourself and your family should an unintentional accident occur while having some summer fun.


There are many reasons why you should have a Code Amber Alertag