Premier Healthcare Alliance Selects AeroScout as Exclusive Wi-Fi-Based Vendor for RFID Asset Tracking and Management Solutions

Premier Members to Benefit from AeroScout`s Market Leadership and the Advantages
of its Standard Wi-Fi-based RFID Solutions for Tracking the Location, Condition
and Status of Assets, Patients and Staff
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., the group purchasing unit of the Premier
healthcare alliance has selected AeroScout`s healthcare visibility solutions as
the exclusive Wi-Fi-based RFID solutions for Premier`s member hospitals.
Premier, a quality and cost improvement alliance of more than 2,200 U.S.
hospitals and 63,000 other healthcare sites, awarded a three-year contract to
AeroScout as a preferred provider for RFID Asset Tracking and Management
Solutions. AeroScout solutions provide visibility into the location, status and
condition of assets, patients and staff throughout all hospital departments.
AeroScout is already the chosen solution for hundreds of hospitals and is
exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association.

"Premier is proud to offer RFID solutions that drive key benefits for hospital
organizations, such as ensuring regulatory compliance, improving patient safety,
reducing capital and operational expenditures, increasing staff efficiency and
enhancing patient care," said Mike Alkire, President of Premier Purchasing
Partners.

AeroScout`s healthcare solutions include real-time Asset Management, Equipment
Maintenance, Humidity & Temperature Monitoring, Workflow & Resource Management
and Patient & Staff Safety. These applications all employ AeroScout`s
industry-leading technology that leverages clients` existing Wi-Fi
infrastructure and integrates with most healthcare IT software systems.
AeroScout solutions serve the needs of clinical staff, IT management, clinical
engineers, biomedical engineers, materials management, laboratory staff,
pharmacy personnel and many other hospital users.

Gabi Daniely, VP of marketing and product strategy at AeroScout, said "AeroScout
offers a broad range of solutions that will enable Premier member hospitals to
leverage their existing investments in standard Wi-Fi networks by offering them
a true hospital-wide visibility solution that is cost effective and easy to
deploy."

AeroScout addresses the entire set of visibility application requirements of
hospital organizations in the most comprehensive and cost efficient manner. With
AeroScout`s robust and scalable Unified Asset Visibility solution, hospital
organizations can work with a single, proven provider and implement one platform
for all current and future asset, patient and staff visibility needs,
including:

* Enterprise-wide asset and people tracking
* Room-level separation
* Bay-level (sub-room) resolution
* Chokepoint detection
* Condition monitoring - both temperature and humidity
* Indoor and outdoor tracking
* Passive RFID applications
* Integration to mobile equipment
* Integration to a wide variety of hospital information systems

"We`re honored to be selected by Premier to serve the needs of its hospital
members," continued Daniely. "Our partnership with Premier promotes the benefits
of our offering and demonstrates why AeroScout leads the market. Our solutions
enable healthcare organizations to reduce capital and operational expenses while
continuing to improve quality of care."

About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient

The Premier healthcare alliance is more than 2,200 U.S. hospitals and
63,000-plus other healthcare sites working together to improve healthcare
quality and affordability. Premier maintains the nation's most comprehensive
repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and operates a
leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader in helping deliver
measurable improvements in care, Premier works with the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services and the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West to
improve hospital performance. Premier has offices in San Diego, Charlotte, N.C.,
Philadelphia and Washington. Follow Premier on Twitter.

About AeroScout

AeroScout is the market leader in Unified Asset Visibility solutions. Customers
improve operational efficiency using AeroScout products that leverage standard
Wi-Fi networks to track and manage the location, condition and status of mobile
assets and people. AeroScout`s global customer base consists of leading
hospital, manufacturing and logistics organizations, including many of the
Fortune 500. The company invented the first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tag, and
today is widely recognized as leading the market in number of deployments and
tags shipped. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, AeroScout has offices
in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Latin America. For more
information, please visit www.aeroscout.com.

AeroScout is a registered trademark of AeroScout, Inc. Wi-Fi is a trademark of
the Wi-Fi Alliance. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners. Information is subject to change without notice.

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Media Contact:
Kate Sowell, 408-573-3664
AeroScout@LEWISPR.com

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