Harmon
Medical and Rehabilitation Hospital Launches RFID-based Asset Tracking
Solution from Exavera and PCTS
Integrated
Real-Time Location System poised to improve workflow and cut costs
at Las Vegas healthcare facility
December
6, 2006 (Portsmouth, NH and Mission Viejo, CA) – Exavera
Technologies Incorporated and Patient
Care Technology Systems (PCTS) today announced their successful
implementation of an integrated Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
at the Harmon Medical and Rehabilitation Hospital in Las Vegas,
Nevada. Harmon, a 118-bed sub-acute care facility, is part of the
Fundamental LTC family of healthcare facilities. The hospital's
staff will use the browser-based solution to locate nearly 300 assets
in both clinical and non-clinical areas throughout the entire hospital.
At
the core of the solution is Exavera's eShepherd™ Location Services
solution, which includes RFID tags and readers as well as intelligent
software to calculate the whereabouts of tagged items. PCTS' Amelior
Tracker ™ software represents an intuitive end-user interface
that allows hospital staff to locate a wide array of clinical and
non-clinical assets, including pumps, wheelchairs, telemetry equipment
and even maintenance tools from any computer on the hospital network.
Amelior Tracker also offers the analytical tools to optimize
asset usage and inventory.
“At
Fundamental, we're always seeking out new ways to allow our talented
staff to focus on their job of providing outstanding care for our
patients,” said Scott Hillegass, vice president at Fundamental Long
Term Care . “With the deployment
of the Exavera/PCTS solution, we will be minimizing the time our
healthcare professionals spend searching for the tools of the trade,
in turn maximizing their time as caregivers.”
“The
deployment at Harmon is our most exciting to date, as our partnership
with Patient Care Technology Systems takes the value of our solution
to all new levels,” said Scott Zeller, vice president of corporate
affairs at Exavera. “The insight we provide coupled with the analytical
tools inherent in the Amelior suite translates to an optimized
workflow model and significant cost savings for any hospital.”
From
any nurse's station throughout the hospital, staff members can search
for a specific item or the nearest of a particular type of asset.
The results are shown both as a text-based report sorted by location
and as a “dot-on-a-map” visual representation. When clicking on
a particular item, the asset record appears, including information
such as manufacturer, serial number, and calibration or maintenance
notes. In the second phase of the deployment, security alerts will
be delivered to appropriate staff members when certain items are
leaving the building. Furthermore, through the analysis of location
history, asset utilization and inventory can be significantly improved.
“There
is a great deal of excitement around here, as this system solves
the universal problem in hospitals of finding a particular piece
of equipment when you need it,” said Jan Vinson, clinical director
at Harmon.
“We are pleased to be partnering with Exavera's RFID infrastructure,”
said Tony Marsico, CEO of PCTS. “The ease with which our solutions
have integrated demonstrates their flexibility to support the diversity
of workflow processes in healthcare environments.”
About
Harmon Medical and Rehabilitation Hospital and Fundamental
Harmon
Medical and Rehabilitation Hospital is a 118-bed sub-acute care
facility. At Harmon Medical and Rehabilitation Hospital patients
are cared for by a highly skilled professional staff, which includes
Physicians, Registered Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Physical
Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists and Dietitians.
Harmon is part of the Fundamental LTC family of healthcare facilities.
About
Exavera Technologies
Exavera
Technologies Incorporated combines RFID and WLAN technologies to
build advanced networks that enable the identification, location
and tracking of people and assets. Headquartered in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, the company focuses on using the insight provided
by their solution to automate processes and optimize workflow. For
more information, visit www.exavera.com
About
Patient Care Technology Systems
Patient
Care Technology Systems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CSLR) provides hospitals with intelligent workflow
solutions to improve patient flow and to reduce the risk of medical
errors. The company's Amelior ™ software suite includes
Amelior ED ™, a comprehensive emergency department information
system, and automatic patient and asset tracking software for the
emergency department, perioperative suite, and enterprise-wide.
Amelior automatic tracking solutions are compatible with
all leading locating hardware including infrared, RFID, ultra-wideband
and Wi-Fi. PCTS customers have been recognized nationally
for improvements in efficiency and clinical excellence. For more
information, visit www.pcts.com .
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of federal securities laws. PCTS and CSLR caution you that
any statements contained in this press release which are not strictly
historical statements constitute forward-looking statements. Such
forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those
related to PCTS's and CSLR's expectations regarding continued business
growth. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, and
involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from such forward-looking statements, (copies
of which may be obtained at the SEC's website at: http://www.sec.gov
-- could impact the forward-looking statements contained in
this press release. Readers should not place undue reliance on any
such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date
they are made. PCTS and CSLR disclaim any obligation to publicly
update or revise any such statements to reflect any change in PCTS
and CSLR's expectations, or in events, conditions or circumstances
on which any such statements may be based, or that may affect the
likelihood that actual results will differ from those set forth
in the forward- looking statements.
Companies
Sign Agreement to Co-Market Solutions to Hospitals
May
16, 2006 (Mission Viejo, CA) – Patient Care Technology
Systems (PCTS), a provider of advanced charting and tracking systems
announced today the integration of their automatic patient and asset
tracking software with the wireless location-services suite
from Exavera Technologies Incorporated. The companies have
signed an agreement to market their combined solution to hospitals.
PCTS will be demonstrating its automatic tracking software at the
Towards the Electronic Patient Record conference in Baltimore on
May 20-24.
Healthcare providers
seeking to improve patient safety and optimize workflow are adopting
technologies that can identify, locate and track patients and mobile
medical equipment automatically without requiring manual updates
by busy caregivers. PCTS automatic tracking software provides
real-time patient location and care status information by integrating
with most major tracking hardware platforms including infrared,
active RFID, ultra wideband and WiFi. Identification and location
messages are sent to the software by tracking tags placed with people
and assets. The software uses rules-based intelligence to measure
interactions between staff, patients and mobile medical equipment
to identify patient care milestones. This information helps caregivers
to anticipate resource needs and to streamline patient flow. Movement
and interactions are time-stamped to provide detailed data for further
analysis of department utilization.
Exavera provides
locating hardware and a wireless method of sending data that can
be integrated with the PCTS software. The system uses cost-effective
RFID-enabled devices to communicate with a hospital's network to
provide an affordable information delivery solution. Marketed as
the eShepherd™ system, it is a complete delivery network that includes
tags, readers and access points.
“We are pleased
to integrate the eShepherd™ system with PCTS automatic tracking
software,” stated Scott Zeller, co-founder and vp of corporate affairs
for Exavera. “Our relationship with PCTS is yet another way
for us to seamlessly deliver our value to the end-users in a healthcare
environment.”
“PCTS automatic
tracking s oftware is designed to work with all major locating hardware
platforms,” said Tony Marsico, CEO of PCTS. “We are very pleased
to expand the breadth of options to include Exavera. Their ability
to integrate RFID-enabled devices with a WiFi network represent
s an exciting new capability.”
PCTS will be
hosting a special interactive automatic tracking event at the 22nd
annual Towards the Electronic Patient Record conference in Baltimore
on May 20-24. Registered conference attendees can wear tracking
badges to id entify and track the location of fellow participants,
conference & event staff and mock mobile medical equipment throughout
the exhibit hall and lecture rooms. The event will provide a dynamic,
first-hand experience of the capabilities of automatically tracking
in a virtual healthcare enterprise. For more information, please
visit www.tepr.com/rfid
About
Patient Care Technology Systems
Patient Care
Technology Systems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Inc.
(NASD AQ: CSLR) is dedicated to becoming the leading provider of
patient safety solutions in the high acuity segments of healthcare.
Featuring the A melior ED™
patient care system, a comprehensive ED information system
with clinical decision support, and Amelior
EDTracker™ automatic tracking, the most
widely implemented automatic tracking system in U.S. emergency
departments, PCTS provides a family of integrated and intelligent
solutions designed to reduce medical errors and improve the operating
performance of high acuity departments. Amelior
patient care system customers have been recognized nationally for
department productivity and nursing excellence. For more information,
visit www.pcts.com .
About
Exavera Technologies Incorporated
Exavera Technologies Incorporated combines RFID and WLAN technologies
to build advanced networks that enable the identification, location
an d tracking of people and assets. Headquartered in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, the company focuses on using the insight provided
by their solution to automate processes and optimize workflow.
This press release
contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal
securities laws. PCTS and CSLR caution you that any statements contained
i n this press release which are not strictly historical statements
constitute forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements
include, but are not limited to, those related to PCTS ' s and CSLR
' s expectations regarding continued business growth. T hese statements
are neither promises nor guarantees, and involve risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking
statements, (copies of which may be obtained at the SEC's website
at: http://www.sec.gov )
-- could impact the forward-looking statements contained in this
press release. Readers should not place undue reliance on any such
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they
are made. PCTS and CSLR disclaim any obligation to publi c ly update
or revise any such statements to reflect any change in PCTS and
CSLR ' s expectations, or in events, conditions or circumstances
on which any such statements may be based, or that may affect the
likelihood that actual results will differ from thos e set forth
in the forward-looking statements.
Portland, ME -- FEBRUARY 8, 2006 -- Exavera Technologies and Parco
Wireless have collaborated to develop new integrated asset and personnel
tracking packages designed to reduce the overall cost of RFID ownership
to hospitals. Featuring converged wireless systems, the combined
solution will enable hospitals to deploy RFID tracking systems into
more areas within the facility at substantial savings.
Exavera's VeraFi Access
Reading Points combine RFID and WiFi technologies to communicate
with 915 MHz tags, and intelligently deliver information throughout
the wireless network. Parco Wireless has been the industry leader
in providing advanced active tracking technologies including Ultra-wideband
(UWB) technologies, passive RFID readers and tags, and WiFi.
"Exavera and Parco's systems
target different price/performance points by design, and are therefore
best suited for different use cases," stated Scott Zeller, co-founder
and VP of corporate affairs for Exavera. "Interoperability between
our products enables the flexibility to custom-tailor an installation
to fit the client's specific needs. Now hospitals can enjoy the
efficiency and value of Exavera's cost-effective RFID tracking solutions
in certain areas of the hospital and deploy Parco in areas such
as the Emergency Department or OR where a higher degree of resolution
is required."
Parco recently announced
the commercial release of Version 2.0 of its RTLS Application Programmer
Interface, Webservices and Software Developer Kit. The release of
Version 2.0 included upgrades of affiliated software packages and
improvements. Using the latest version of the SDK, Exavera and Parco
software engineers successfully integrated Exavera's data streams
into the Parco tracking application. The new version of the SDK
allows for specific data classes for real time and general proximity
data. The use of the Parco SDK and geospatial approach provides
Exavera with a scalable solution for handling campus-wide tracking
systems.
"The hospital markets
have been needlessly underserved by all of the competing tracking
technologies offered to them. They were forced to pay for services
that couldn't flex to the various requirements throughout their
environment", states Scott Cohen, CEO of Parco Wireless. "Today
we proudly announce the integration of two very exciting tracking
technologies into one seamless product allowing ‘best of breed'
tracking which enables true ‘edge to enterprise' tracking capabilities
at a lower cost. Our approach will make the decision as to which
tracking solution to buy much easier for the hospital. They are
getting the best of both 915 MHz-based technology and the UWB world,"
says Cohen.
About Parco
Wireless
Parco Merged Media is a privately held company headquartered in
Portland, Maine. The company has emerged as the industry leader
for the health care and safety industry providing the most accurate
and reliable tracking systems available to hospitals. Parco is the
only one-source wireless health care communication systems provider
using FCC approved UWB devices and open platform software designs.
Parco's wireless healthcare communication software suite includes
middleware, an application programmer's interface, and wireless
operating system and software development kits.
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