Patient Care Technology Systems: Patient Care Technology Systems and Awarepoint Announce Co-Marketing of Real-Time Workflow Sol

Published in House and Home on Wednesday, July 8th 2009 at 6:12 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-07-08 06:12:14 by Market Wire
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CHARLOTTE, NC and SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - July 8, 2009) - Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS), a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering Inc. (NASDAQ: [ CSLR ]), today announced that it has signed an agreement with Awarepoint Corporation to co-market the companies' technologies for providing real-time workflow visibility and automation. PCTS will utilize Awarepoint's patented "plug and track" Real-time Awareness System (RTAS) for PCTS' enterprise workflow visibility solutions. Earlier this year, the companies integrated their technologies to support surgical tray tracking at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Illinois. Awarepoint serves its hospital customers through a distribution partnership with Skytron.

Since 1999, PCTS has pioneered the use of real-time locating systems (RTLS) to automatically track patients and assets in emergency and surgical services departments in order to more efficiently and safely manage patient flow.

Today, PCTS provides enterprise-wide workflow visibility through its advanced Amelior 360°™ enterprise platform which aggregates and synthesizes patient data from RTLS and hospital information systems. Workflow business intelligence measures location, movement and interactions between patients, staff and equipment among other variables to identify real-time patient and asset status. Mobile caregivers access patient information relative to their role or clinical unit in order to manage their workflow more efficiently. This has resulted in significant improvements in operating performance for complex clinical workflow environments enabling increased capacity, improved staff and patient satisfaction and higher revenues.

Awarepoint provides location awareness through a ZigBee-based wireless sensor network utilizing sensors which are deployed in standard electrical outlets. This 100% wireless infrastructure enables quick installation without disrupting patient care throughout the entire enterprise. Awarepoint tags broadcast low power radio messages which enable users to quickly locate specific equipment or people and provide information about their movement and status. The Awarepoint RTLS network provides true hospital-wide awareness -- not only room-level, but persistent accuracy across the entire hospital footprint.

The companies plan to initially align their sales and marketing resources to help health care facilities improve their utilization of movable medical equipment in support of clinical workflows and manage their assets for regulatory compliance, patient safety and cost reduction opportunities.

The first joint tracking implementation between PCTS and Awarepoint was successfully launched in 2009 at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, a 340-bed acute care facility located in Downers Grove, Illinois. The hospital has implemented Awarepoint's sterilizable tag, the first such tag in the market, to track surgical trays between sterile processing and their 35,000 square foot, 15-suite surgical services department. Staff uses the Amelior ORTracker® perioperative workflow software from PCTS to locate trays and manage tray and tag assets.

About Awarepoint

Awarepoint's real-time location systems (RTLSs) include its real-time awareness platform, firmware, active RFID tags, sensors, and bridges. Awarepoint's technologies collect raw sensor data and transform that data into high-value positioning information that can be used to add location awareness to a variety of healthcare, manufacturing, security and other applications. Requiring no hard wiring, Awarepoint's "plug and track" ZigBee-based wireless sensor network is a fully managed service, including hardware, software, remote monitoring and maintenance. The company is headquartered in San Diego, California and serves its hospital customers across the United States through a distribution agreement with Skytron. Track us down at [ http://www.awarepoint.com ] or visit [ www.skytron.us ]

About Patient Care Technology Systems

Patient Care Technology Systems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Inc. (NASDAQ: [ CSLR ]), helps health care providers to improve patient flow, increase capacity and improve patient and staff safety by visualizing the real-time location and status of patients and equipment throughout their facility. Proven return on investment in high turnover, high acuity departments such as the emergency department and perioperative suite where PCTS solutions have supported over 5 million patient visits with automatic tracking and emergency department documentation solutions. The Amelior Enterprise Visibility Suite™ is compatible with all leading locating technologies including active-RFID, infrared, ultrasound, ultra-wideband, Wi-Fi and ZigBee. 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.

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