Sramana Mitra: Whether it’s a box of dressings or a piece of equipment costing thousands of dollars, hospitals and other medical facilities can sacrifice their quality of care and lose money when they don’t have a solid grip on their supply chain. To help ensure this doesn’t happen, Awarepoint has developed a real-time location solution (RTLS) system to track assets and handle management challenges faced by healthcare institutions. Its ‘Real-Time Awareness Solutions’ give healthcare clients such as hospitals, teaching institutions, independents and military facilities, business intelligence to improve quality of care, patient safety and clinical and financial outcomes. The RTLS, which are implemented with Active RFID tags, continually monitor the position and activity of resources, analogous to an indoor GPS.

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Health care Goes Mobile: The Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center has deployed a real time location system, bringing to three the number of UCSD Medical Center hospitals to opt for the Awarepoint RTLS offering. The Awarepoint enterprise RTLS installation has now been expanded to include nearly 1.5 million square feet with more than 2,000 assets under management, covering three hospitals across almost 14 miles.

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PR-Inside: Awarepoint Corporation (www.awarepoint.com) today announced deployment of its Real-time Location System (RTLS) at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center (http://cancer.ucsd.edu). This deployment adds a third UCSD Medical Center hospital to Awarepoint's RTLS (http://www.awarepoint.com/rtls.shtml) coverage, which currently includes the system's Thornton and Hillcrest campuses. The Awarepoint enterprise RTLS installation has now been expanded to include nearly 1.5 million square feet with more than 2,000 assets under management, covering three hospitals across nearly 14 miles.

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Marketwire: (http://www.skytron.us/) will co-exhibit at Booth 913 during HFMA's 2009 ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference (http://www.hfma.org/events/ani), a premier annual conference for healthcare finance professionals. Awarepoint will be showcasing its Real-time Location Solutions (RTLS) that add location awareness to a variety of healthcare applications for operational efficiency, patient flow and patient safety. Demonstrations at the booth will show healthcare finance professionals how location awareness can impact financial and clinical outcomes with a high and quick return on investment (ROI). Awarepoint's T2S sterilizable RTLS tag (http://www.awarepoint.com/tags.html), the only clinically validated sterilizable Active RFID-RTLS asset tag on the market today, provides immense new opportunities for both medical instrumentation tray management and patient tracking/workflow automation. The hard dollar return on investment (ROI) for hospitals using RTLS to manage instrumentation trays is vast. WHEN: ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference (http://www.hfma.org/events/ani) June 14 - 17, 2009

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MarketWire: Awarepoint, a provider of ZigBee-based real-time location solutions (RTLS) for hospitals, will participate at The Health Management Academy's Spring 2009 CFO Forum Study Group. Awarepoint CEO Jason Howe will lead a session entitled: "How RTLS Can Help Rescue Hospital Budgets." This Academy Roundtable will explore RTLS implementation success factors for operational efficiency, patient flow and patient safety that impact financial and clinical outcomes with a high and quick return-on-investment (ROI).

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PR-CANADA: Awarepoint Corporation, a provider of ZigBee-based real-time location systems (RTLS) for hospitals, today announced it has completed independent clinical testing for its T2S sterilizable RTLS tag. Independent testing has been performed by SPSmedical for decontamination and mechanical cleaning, Cytotoxicity, steam pre-vacuum efficacy, and STERRAD® Sterilization Systems including use in wrapped trays and Tyvek® Peel Pouches. Awarepoint chose SPSmedical because they are the largest sterilizer testing laboratory in North America. SPSmedical subjected Awarepoint's T2S RTLS tag to product-specific cleaning, sterilization and disinfection procedures for reusable devices, including:

1 Decontamination and Mechanical Cleaning

This validates the effectiveness of decontamination and cleaning process when the tag is subjected to a mechanical washer.

2 Cytotoxicity

Samples from the tested Awarepoint T2S Tag met the USP and ISO 10993-5 requirements and are considered non-toxic under the test conditions employed.

3 Pre-vacuum Steam Sterilization Study

Performance testing validated the recommended cycle parameters are safe and effective when sterilizing the Awarepoint T2S sterilizable Tag per AAMI/ISO guidelines.

4 STERRAD® Sterilization Systems

Performance testing confirms the recommended cycle parameters are safe and effective for use when sterilizing the Awarepoint T2S sterilizable Tags in a hospital STERRAD® 100S sterilization full cycle. The protocol for STERRAD® testing included use in the wrapped tray and Tyvek® Peel Pouch.

All original reports are on file at Awarepoint's corporate office in San Diego, California.

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