Earth Times: CHARLOTTE, NC and NEWPORT BEACH, CA -- 10/14/09 -- Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS), a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSLR), today announced that Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has implemented the company's Amelior EDTracker® solution to automatically track patients in its 66,000-census emergency department. The solution integrates an ultrasonic real-time locating system (RTLS) from PCTS business partner, Sonitor Technologies.

Amelior EDTracker is part of the Amelior Enterprise Visibility Suite(TM) which comprises departmental to facility-wide solutions to streamline patient flow through the real-time visualization and documentation of patient care. Hospitals can scale their implementations by the entities they wish to track (movable medical equipment, patients, staff), operational goals (asset management, patient flow, infection control) and by scope of care (acute care, outpatient services, inpatient floors, facility-wide).

The web-based Amelior EDTracker software visualizes patient flow by automatically identifying the location and status of patients and equipment without requiring manual updates by busy caregivers. Location information is generated by integrating with a facility's choice of RTLS. Hoag selected ultrasonic locating from Sonitor Technologies for its room and bay-level locating precision and accuracy. Workflow algorithms within the Amelior EDTracker software interpret the meaning of location, movement and interactions between patients, staff and equipment to automatically communicate patient care milestones as they occur. Interfaces to ADT, lab, and radiology systems integrate additional patient and order status information creating a centralized workflow communication and management portal for the emergency department.

"The implementation of automatic patient tracking is a significant step forward in workflow visibility and automation for our emergency department," said Raymond Ricci MD, FACEP, director of emergency medicine. "We are dedicated to providing our patients with the most efficient and safest care possible. Amelior EDTracker is helping us to transform the efficiency of our department."

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Globe Newswire: ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 30, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PrismOne Group, Inc. (OTCBB:PMOZ), a provider of managed technology services to targeted vertical market clients with either a high number of employees, multi-locations or growth challenges, is pleased to announce that it has chosen Axcess International Inc. (OTCBB:AXSI), a leading provider of Dual-Active(TM) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) solutions, as the supplier of RFID technology for PrismOne's pilot of the company's Presence Response and Intelligent Systems Management (PRISM).

PRISM will enable real time, dynamic analysis of a building environment through the use of Presence tracking to modify environmental systems. PRISM will manage and control use-sensitive systems such as lighting, HVAC and other systems to maximize energy efficiency and lower a user's and subsequently a building's carbon footprint. PRISM will be integrated into PrismOne's web-based interface as an additional module and integrated with the existing communications and network modules.

Samir Burshan, CEO of PrismOne, states, "I was educated as an architect and feel very strongly about building sustainability. In our capacity to develop technology solutions, I wanted to provide a way to answer the frustrating questions of why lights in an empty space are left on, or an AC is cranked down to 72 degrees or a TV or stereo is on when there is no one there -- anywhere! RFID is just one component of PRISM but an important one. We didn't make this decision quickly. We wanted to find the right technology for our solution, and, after one year of searching, reviewing and re-reviewing our short list, we feel that Axcess is the best company to partner with to provide us that technology."

"Our MicroWireless technology automatically tells you where your personnel and assets are throughout a facility," said Allan Griebenow, President and CEO of Axcess International Inc. "We are uniquely qualified for presence determination because our wireless credentials and asset tags are very small, economical and reliable compared to other options. Interacting dynamically with the building's energy management system will mean energy will be used most efficiently. With such a rapid increase in demand for green building solutions, we are very excited to support the PrismOne effort."

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Earth Times: KENT, Wash. - (Business Wire) Under the Agreement, LEGENDid will offer GuardRFID’s leading edge Active RFID products and security solutions to their Healthcare as well as Industrial and Enterprise customers. GuardRFID offers the smallest and least expensive RFID tags, allowing users to track, locate and protect equipment, materials and people in almost any environment. It’s Web based platform uses wired or wireless Ethernet, resulting in cost effective installations, and allowing remote monitoring, diagnostics and system updates.

“We have been providing high-end RFID products and security solutions for many years, and are excited to add GuardRFID to our portfolio. GuardRFID brings a unique and cutting edge active RFID platform that will allow us to offer security solutions with much greater capabilities than we have been able to provide in the past,” stated Doug Vetter, the President of LEGENDid. “GuardRFID’s technology platform and solutions are very versatile, and we can apply them to almost any vertical market we are involved in. I was blown away when I personally witnessed a demonstration of one of GuardRFID’s asset tracking tags being read while it was placed within a double-walled metal cabinet.”

“We are thrilled to have LEGENDid as one of our partners, as they bring years of security experience and expertise to the table, which will translate to well installed and supported systems, and therefore happy customers,” says Zahir Abji, President and CEO of Guard RFID Solutions Inc. “LegendID gives us the ability to provide solutions to a wide variety of customers, including Healthcare, Public Safety and Heavy Industry. This will allow us to expand our reach in Healthcare, and further build upon the traction we are currently experiencing in the Industrial and Enterprise space.”

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Business Wire: REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following the recent announcement of an agreement between Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., and AeroScout, the Premier healthcare alliance announced today that it has selected AeroScout as the sole source provider of RFID Asset Tracking and Management solutions for Premier’s ASCEND™ program. The three-year agreement covers AeroScout’s Wi-Fi RTLS healthcare visibility solutions for all ASCEND members. AeroScout’s solutions will leverage ASCEND members’ standard Wi-Fi networks and offer a broad range of applications and capabilities that deliver strong returns for hospital organizations.

ASCEND (Accelerated Supply Chain Endeavor) is designed to help healthcare providers achieve and sustain rapid improvements in supply chain performance. It also assists Premier alliance member hospitals in ongoing efforts to control and reduce costs through simplified purchasing processes, appropriate clinical utilization and specially negotiated contracts. More than 90 participants that represent approximately $2.7 billion in supply chain purchasing volume and close to 24,000 hospital beds are collaborating to share best practices in supply chain efficiency as a part of the program.

“Premier and ASCEND are committed to providing members with systems and solutions that improve quality, heighten safety, manage risk and reduce costs," said Mike Alkire, President of Premier Purchasing Partners.

AeroScout addresses the entire set of visibility application requirements of hospital organizations in the most comprehensive and cost efficient manner. With AeroScout’s scalable Unified Asset Visibility solutions, customers can work with a single, proven provider and implement one platform for all current and future asset, patient and staff visibility needs. AeroScout’s solutions include real-time Asset Management, Equipment Maintenance and Humidity & Temperature Monitoring and are exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association.

“We’re proud to be the exclusive provider of RFID Asset Tracking and Management Solutions for Premier’s ASCEND program,” said Gabi Daniely, Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy at AeroScout. “This selection reinforces AeroScout’s position as the top vendor in the category and the market, and we look forward to working with ASCEND hospitals toward the common goal of improving operational performance as well as overall patient safety and care.”

For more information on enrolling in ASCEND, please visit www.premierinc.com/ascend.

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Earth Times: BOSTON, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group), a premier provider of business communications solutions, and PosTrack Technologies have been chosen by Ottawa Regional Hospital and Healthcare Center (Ottawa Regional) to deliver a hosted unified communications (UC) solution. With the SEN Group OpenScape Voice Application and 24x7 monitoring and service desk and PosTrack ConnectPlus licensing, Ottawa Regional can enjoy advanced communications features without having to manage the system internally, making it easier to focus on their core business - healthcare.

While many healthcare providers have scaled back capital expenditures, Ottawa Regional continues to invest in patient care, adding a new cancer treatment and radiation oncology center, as well as an expanded diagnostic imaging center. Residents of LaSalle County, Illinois and surrounding communities benefit from a comprehensive range of healthcare services, including inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical care, emergency care, pre-natal and post-partum care, rehabilitation and physical therapy, behavioral health services, home health and hospice care.

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GPS Business News: A French start-up named Insiteo and specializing in indoor positioning has concluded the initial phase of a founding round valued at several million Euros. Investment has been secured from venture capital firm Emertec and a small group of private investors, including Anne-Sophie Pastel, former CEO and co-founder of auFeminin.com, with the support of ACTA Finance.

“The increase in capital will enable us to equip our first clients, including a major site in Paris attracted by the benefits of the Insiteo solution,” said Arnaud Masson, President of Insiteo. “Ours is indeed a disruptive technology able to deliver to most existing phones a perfect continuity of location services in environments where GPS is unavailable, including commercial centers, tradeshows, and industrial sites,” Mr. Masson continued.

Insiteo’s technology is an infrastructure-based solution that combines A-GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and, in some cases, FM radio to provide indoor, sub three meter positioning. “We’ve identified sites where our clients place a sufficiently high value on being able to deliver location-based information that they can justify a modest investment in site-specific infrastructure”, explained Stuart Strickland, vice president at Insiteo. “Unlike many RTLS systems – which, in some respects, this approach resembles – we do not rely upon any customized user equipment, so anyone with a phone can essentially walk in and participate”, he added.

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PR Newswire: PITTSBURGH, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Market leader TeleTracking Technologies, Inc. has acquired real time location system (RTLS) company RadarFind to deliver a truly automatic, enterprise-wide patient flow system to the U.S. hospital market.

"As the pioneer of patient flow automation," said TeleTracking CEO Anthony Sanzo, "it's been our mission to continually improve upon our time-tested, proven approach to manage real-time patient flow actions which help clients provide more timely care and reduce wait times."

"Engineering progress and new technologies, especially like that of RadarFind, now allow us to confidently incorporate RTLS for more precise tracking visibility of patients and beds on our enterprise-class platform, TeleTracking XT(TM).

To improve the numerous aspects of the complex patient flow continuum, hospitals need to discharge patients in a timely manner, turn over rooms efficiently, move patients comfortably and safely, and place the patient in the most clinically appropriate bed. This requires accurate, real-time information. RadarFind provides an "absolute real-time," affordable, non-disruptive, enterprise-wide way to pin point patients, staff and expensive equipment. Combined with TeleTracking's flow automation software, it will greatly enhance the process.

With 800 plus clients covering virtually every major U.S. city, TeleTracking now can deliver these real-time capabilities to the largest single share of the American hospital market to help them put the right patient in the right bed with the right equipment and right staff for the right reason.

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Reuters (Business Wire): PITTSBURGH--(Business Wire)-- ClearCount Medical Solutions, an innovator of patient safety solutions for the operating room, announced today that its SmartSponge System was named a runner-up under the medical devices category in the Wall Street Journal 2009 Technology Innovation Awards. The award recognizes companies, individuals and organizations world-wide for technological breakthroughs in such areas as medicine, software, the Internet, wireless and consumer electronics.

"We are honored to be recognized by the Wall Street Journal for innovation leadership because innovation is the cornerstone of our technology platform and our overall business approach," said David Palmer, ClearCount`s President and CEO. "This award is a reflection of co-founder Steve Fleck and our entire team`s passion and commitment in developing groundbreaking technology that improves both patient safety and productivity in the operating room."

ClearCount was one of four companies recognized in the Medical Device category. Winners were chosen based on whether the innovation represented a breakthrough from conventional ideas or methods in its field, and whether the innovation goes beyond incremental improvements on technologies that already exist.

ClearCount will be honored at an awards ceremony and dinner October 13, 2009 in Redwood City, California at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel. The ceremony will be held in conjunction with the Dow Jones VentureWire Technology Showcase.

The SmartSponge System is the first and only system to incorporate the efficiency of counting with the safety of detection for the purpose of preventing a retained object during surgery. The SmartSponge System is the only system to provide continuous vs. episodic counting. Providing an average of 80,000 counts per procedure, this continuous counting benefit makes the difference in complex surgeries where shift changes and delays often occur, as well as providing valuable assurance in every surgical case.

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Market Wire: REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - September 15, 2009) - AeroScout, the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility for the healthcare industry, today announced that WellSpan Health's York Hospital has deployed AeroScout's Wi-Fi-based healthcare visibility solution. York Hospital's emergency, biomedical engineering and transportation departments are using the AeroScout solution to track critical medical equipment throughout the facility to ensure that staff can quickly locate required items. The solution and its time-saving benefits are proving to be especially valuable in the emergency department during peak hours by helping to increase efficiency while improving patient satisfaction, care and safety.

York Hospital is a 580-bed, 1.2 million square-foot community teaching hospital that employs more than 3,400 people. It is currently being upgraded to one of only two Level 1 Trauma centers in south-central Pennsylvania. The hospital had wanted to implement a real-time location system (RTLS) for the last five years. When the project received approval and funding last summer, York Hospital selected AeroScout's solution primarily because it is Wi-Fi-based and because a Cisco Unified Wireless Network was already in place for data and voice over IP. York Hospital implemented the solution in collaboration with CDW Healthcare, which provided product guidance, industry expertise and logistical assistance, helping WellSpan to deploy an effective, scalable solution that supports patient care demands.

"One clear advantage of the AeroScout solution is that it leverages standard Wi-Fi, which means it was easy and cost effective to deploy and manage, allowed us to get up and running quickly and allowed us to stay within our budget," said Chad Noll, manager of biomedical engineering at WellSpan.

The solution deployed at York Hospital consists of AeroScout's MobileView software and Wi-Fi Tags. The tags are attached to a range of medical items that are constantly moving throughout the facility, including gurneys, infusion pumps, feeding pumps, portable physiological monitors and circulatory assistance pumps. The hospital also tracks its Wi-Fi enabled computers-on-wheels and IP phones. These items can be tracked without tags and without additional installed software clients, a functionality that can be achieved only with AeroScout's solution. When a tracked item is needed, staff can immediately locate it with MobleView's user-friendly interface via any computer on the network.

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PR News Wire: FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynamic Computer Corporation (DCC) has finalized a partnership agreement with AiRISTA to add Wi-Fi RTLS solutions to its RFID offerings.

Farida Ali, DCC President & CEO said: "We are proud to announce this addition to our portfolio, particularly for our health care customers looking to utilize their existing Wi-Fi infrastructures to include an RFID tracking system."

The Premier Healthcare Alliance supplier is a single-source RFID systems integrator serving industries including health care, aerospace, defense, education, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals. DCC offers active, wired (IR-RF), wireless, Wi-Fi, passive and battery-assisted passive (BAP) RFID-integrated solutions to meet the unique needs of its customers.

"We're delighted to join forces with DCC to offer the industry's most comprehensive Track and Trace solutions in regions where DCC's reputation of customer service and support is already established," said AiRISTA COO Frank Shirmo.

DCC has partnered with AiRISTA along with other leaders in RFID technology to ensure its customers can select from among the best systems in quality, functionality and value.

"Our business philosophy is to let the use case dictate the specific RFID technology rather than convincing customers that a particular solution is a one-size-fits-all fix for their business problem. We help our customers utilize RFID strategically to improve processes and reduce error in their operations." said Ali.

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