Diversinet Appoints Dr. Richard Eidinger to Board of Directors

Addition of Physician Executive with Broad Healthcare Industry Experience Adds to Diversinet's Mobile Healthcare Expertise

TORONTO, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Diversinet Corp. (TSX Venture: DIV, OTCBB: DVNTF), a leading innovator of secure mobile healthcare applications, has appointed to its board of directors Dr. Richard Eidinger, a physician executive with diverse healthcare industry experience.

"Dr. Eidinger's extensive healthcare industry experience and expertise expand our knowledge base and will provide valuable guidance as we continue to develop our leadership position in the growing market for mobile-healthcare applications," said Albert Wahbe, Diversinet chairman and CEO.

Licensed to practice medicine in Canada and the United States, Dr. Eidinger brings to Diversinet a background spanning the healthcare provider and payer market segments, both of which Diversinet serves with its secure mobile platform and applications. Eidinger has held executive positions with Aetna Health Plans and FHP (now United Healthcare) and currently is a Partner in the Life Sciences Practice of Heidrick & Struggles in the U.S.A., one of the world's premier executive-search and leadership-consulting firms.

Eidinger graduated from the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine. He completed training in Internal Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. He was a Fellow in Gastroenterology at the UCLA School of Medicine and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, where he was awarded a Venture Capital Fellowship.

The Diversinet board appointment follows other moves to advance the company's strategy of using its patented technology to meet increasing needs for connected and secure mobile healthcare-information management. Diversinet recently named healthcare-IT veteran Mark Trigsted to the new position of executive vice president of healthcare and licensed its MobiSecure(R) Health platform to Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners for innovative mobile applications.

About Diversinet

Diversinet Corp. (TSX Venture: DIV, OTCBB: DVNTF) provides the healthcare industry with proven, reliable technology for mobile applications that securely connect people with their healthcare information, payers and providers - anyway, anytime and anywhere. Diversinet's MobiSecure(R) platform helps payers and providers meet rapidly growing needs for safe, convenient, on-the-go storage and sharing of personal health data. Connect with Diversinet Corp. at www.diversinet.com. Healthcare. Connected and Protected.

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