Earth Times: GRAND RAPIDS, MI and SAN DIEGO, CA -- 09/01/09 -- Skytron today announced the addition of Skytron Asset Manager, powered by Awarepoint, to its agreement with Premier Purchasing Partners L.P., the group purchasing unit of Premier Inc. Premier members will now have access to pre-negotiated pricing on margin improvement tools to create new revenue streams and reduce expenses. Skytron Asset Manager (http://www.skytron.us/s-asst-mgr.htm) is a perfect complement to Premier members, providing a way for hospitals to get more productivity while spending less.

"Skytron is extremely excited to partner with Premier in bringing RTLS solutions to their members' hospitals," said Mike Breslin, Skytron Corporate Accounts Director. "Skytron Asset Manager will have a direct impact on each member's bottom line and allow them to utilize their limited resources to provide the best healthcare possible. Premier took notice of an opportunity to help their member hospitals and has moved to capitalize on those real dollar savings quickly."

Skytron Asset Manager is specifically designed to boost productivity, lower equipment costs, improve workflows, and optimize utilization of critical assets. Skytron Asset Manager utilizes Awarepoint's patented ZigBee (www.zigbee.org) wireless sensor network technology that is easy to use and install, without disruption to patient care or existing IT infrastructure. Sensors simply plug into electrical outlets to form an enterprise-wide wireless network. Low-power active RFID tags are attached to equipment, which can then be located through the enterprise with one to three meter in-room location accuracy. A comprehensive reporting suite provides business intelligence about the location, status, movement and usage of mobile medical equipment. Skytron offers its RTLS as a fully managed service, providing hardware, software, installation, maintenance and ongoing support.

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Earth Times: SAN DIEGO, CA -- 08/10/09 -- Skytron (www.skytron.us) and Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) today announced deployment of their Real-time Location System (RTLS) (www.awarepoint.com/solutions.html) at San Joaquin Community Hospital, the premier provider of healthcare services in Bakersfield and the surrounding cities of Kern County, California. This deployment adds the Adventist Health System to the Skytron Asset Manager, powered by Awarepoint, hospital client base. The San Joaquin Community Hospital enterprise-wide deployment covers nearly 350,000 square feet and more than 1,300 assets, and includes both standard asset tags and temperature monitoring tags.
San Joaquin Community Hospital is initially tracking its high value mobile assets including wheeled beds, gurneys, computers on wheels, IV and PCA pumps, telemetry and vital signs monitors. In addition to ease of locating assets, the RTLS solution provides staff with proactive insight into the movement and status of equipment assets. For example, date-driven reporting streamlines the task of tracking and recording equipment nearing scheduled maintenance requirements; stationary asset alerts notify staff of equipment that is not in use, decreasing costly idle assets and reducing equipment rentals required. San Joaquin Community Hospital is also using temperature monitoring tags (www.awarepoint.com/Tags.html) to oversee pharmacy refrigerator temperatures, and alert if temperatures are out of range.
"We are always looking for innovative tools to support patient care initiatives and particularly in these economic times, must be very strategic in our purchase decisions. With Skytron Asset Manager, we are able to improve patient care; while at the same time have a positive impact on staff efficiency with proactive tools to reduce our equipment costs. We looked at this as a true win-win-win situation for our patients, our staff and our bottom line," said Sam Itani, San Joaquin Community Hospital's Vice President.
"Skytron Asset Manager, powered by Awarepoint, delivers a well-planned and coordinated RTLS solution that puts cost saving, tracking flexibility and location awareness at the fingertips of a healthcare provider. Gained efficiencies improve performance at every level instantly boosting real-time productivity, lowering equipment costs, maximizing visibility and improving workflows," said Skytron President & CEO David M. Mehney.

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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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