Nortel Upgrades Patient Discharge Solution With Referral and Placement Capabilities

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, Apr 07 (MARKET WIRE) --
Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(OTCBB: NRTLQ) today announced a significant upgrade
to its Patient Discharge Solution for healthcare providers. The new
feature - Patient Referral and Placement - allows hospitals to streamline
the process of discharging a patient to another care facility such as a
rehabilitation hospital, nursing home or hospice, and to obtain medical
equipment for the patient. This addition to Nortel's Patient Discharge
Solution can help hospitals realize better patient flow management,
reduced bed turn over time and increase the number of patients they can
treat.

"Our Healthcare Solutions use powerful unified communications
technologies to accelerate and automate the clinical processes," said
Sanjeev Gupta, general manager, Healthcare Solutions, Nortel. "The
results are solutions that are specifically designed to work within the
clinical environment to enhance business results through faster patient
discharge, better patient care, improved clinician/equipment productivity
and increased patient/staff satisfaction."

In one customer example, Orlando Health, a Nortel solution yielded
savings of up to four hours per patient in discharge and bed turn over
time. The solution employs computer-integrated telephony and IVR
technology to automate the entire discharge process - from physician
consent, to prescriptions, to housekeeping and the wheelchair ride to the
front door. Nortel projects that by using the Patient Discharge Solution,
one 1,700 bed hospital can achieve a better than $10 million revenue
increase in the first full year of implementation.

"We have worked closely with Nortel to develop a solution that truly
delivers tangible benefits to our business," said Rick Schooler, vice
president and chief information officer, Orlando Health. "The Patient
Discharge Solution enables prompt approvals from physicians regarding a
patient's discharge status, which relieves nurses from playing phone tag.
It also helps us to promptly initiate multiple departmental activities
that enable a more timely discharge, thus helping to reduce costs at the
end of the patient stay and improve bed utilization. Patients return home
sooner, and we're more efficient."

Nortel teamed with Authentidate(R) Inscrybe(TM) Healthcare(2) to
integrate Inscrybe's Healthcare Information Exchange functionality into
the existing Nortel Patient Discharge Solution. Discharging patients into
post acute-care facilities is traditionally a labor and time intensive
process for hospitals. Often it requires multiple phone calls and
correspondence before a patient can be transferred from one care
environment to another. With Patient Referral and Placement, hospitals
can increase efficiency and reduce these costs by more than 80%,
according to Inscrybe Authentidate research.

"The marriage of Nortel's technology with our solution is a win-win for
the healthcare community," said Cecilia Panozzo, director, Business
Development, Authentidate Holding Corporation, parent company of Inscrybe
Healthcare. "Now, hospitals can discharge a patient into a new care
facility as easily as if they were sending them home, reducing costs and
freeing up beds for new patients more quickly than ever before."

Nortel has nearly 7000 healthcare customers in North America. To learn
more, visit the company's booth #4408 at HIMSS09(2) in Chicago April 5-8.
In addition to the upgraded Patient Discharge Solution, Nortel will also
feature other healthcare-specific products, as well as unified
communications and networking solutions that hospitals and healthcare
providers are using around the world to connect their people, systems and
applications together.

About Nortel

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities
that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our
customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider
and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical
applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate
today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying
networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they
need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the
world. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com.
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Contacts:
Nortel
Camille Beasley
972-684-2577
camillbe@nortel.com

Nortel
Jamie Schember
972-684-1949
jaimesc@nortel.com

Nortel
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+44 (0)1628 432968
gretab@nortel.com
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