Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Selects Patient Care Technology Systems' Asset Tracking Solution for

Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:00am EDT
 
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  CHARLOTTE, NC and WINSTON-SALEM, NC, Jul 14 (MARKET
WIRE) -- 
Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS), a subsidiary of Consulier
Engineering, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSLR), today announced that Wake Forest
University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) has selected the company's
Amelior Tracker(R) system to automatically track and manage hospital
assets throughout their 4.1 million square foot campus. This represents
the largest known real-time location system (RTLS) implementation in a
healthcare facility worldwide. PCTS will integrate a hybrid RTLS
infrastructure from CenTrak. WFUBMC facility services provider ARAMARK
Healthcare will manage and support the installation ongoing.

    WFUBMC, one of the nation's preeminent academic medical centers, is an
integrated health care system that operates 1,056 acute care,
rehabilitation, long-term, and psychiatric care beds, outpatient services,
and community health and information centers. The Medical Center has 22
subsidiary or affiliate hospitals and operates more than 100 outreach
activities throughout the Winston-Salem region. In 2008, WFUBMC was
recognized as one of the nation's "Most Wired" hospitals.

    The first segment of the enterprise-wide asset management installation
will include monitoring the temperature of patient medications and
tracking IV pumps at North Carolina Baptist Hospital, WFUBMC's primary
clinical facility. Additionally, all stretchers and wheel chairs will be
tagged supporting the WFUBMC's patient transport process Six-Sigma team.
Future stages under consideration include real-time patient flow
management for emergency, surgery and radiology departments.

    The Amelior Tracker solution is part of the Amelior Enterprise Visibility
Suite(TM) which comprises department to facility-wide software solutions
and services designed to more efficiently and safely orchestrate patient
care through the real-time visualization of patient flow. Hospitals can
scale their implementations by the entities they wish to track (movable
medical equipment, patients, staff), purpose (asset management, patient
flow, infection control) and by the scope of hospital workflow (acute
care, inpatient floors, outpatient services, enterprise-wide).

    The web-based Amelior tracking software visualizes workflow by
automatically identifying the location of people and equipment and the
care progression of patients. Location information is generated by
integrating with a facility's choice of RTLS. The PCTS software is
compatible across all locating technologies and the company assists
clients in selecting the optimal RTLS for their workflow needs. Workflow
algorithms within the software interpret the meaning of location,
movement and interactions between patients, staff and equipment to alert
caregivers to patient care milestones as they occur. Additional
interfaces to hospital and department information systems and
communication devices create a centralized workflow communication and
management portal that eliminates the need for manual updates and delays
caused by a lack of information.

    At WFUBMC, PCTS will implement a hybrid RTLS network from business partner
CenTrak, with whom PCTS announced a strategic marketing agreement earlier
this year. CenTrak's InTouchCare(TM) differs from legacy technologies in
its combined use of a patented new generation of infrared (Gen2IR) and
RFID. CenTrak's battery powered monitors (over five years of battery life)
transmit a unique room number using Gen2IR, which is received by any tag
in that room. The tag communicates the room number and its own unique ID
via RF to the InTouchCare Location Server using a hospital's existing
wired or Wi-Fi network, where it can be accessed in real-time by hospital
personnel. Like light, Gen2IR will not pass through walls and it does not
suffer from traditional infrared line-of-sight limitations.

    "After a comprehensive, multi-year RTLS marketplace review, we chose
Patient Care Technology Systems because of their proven experience in
implementing scalable, workflow-intelligent solutions that can meet our
demanding current and future needs," said Tony Marra CHFM, director of
facility services at WFUBMC. "Their ability to integrate the right
locating technology with software that can be tailored to manage diverse
workflows at the significant scale that we plan to automate, made PCTS
with CenTrak the only choice for our health system."

    "We are extremely pleased to welcome Wake Forest University Baptist
Medical Center as the newest member of our growing family of health care
facilities," said Tony Marsico, president and CEO of PCTS. "Real-time
location enabled workflow automation offers tremendous cost savings and
revenue potential to hospitals seeking to improve resource utilization and
improve the efficiency of key service lines. WFUBMC's workflow automation
vision is one of the most significant examples to date of the healthcare
marketplace's recognition of the potential scope that is possible."

    About Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

    Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (www.wfubmc.edu) is an
academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital,
Brenner Children's Hospital, Wake Forest University Physicians, and Wake
Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university's School
of Medicine and Piedmont Triad Research Park. The system comprises 1,056
acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care beds and has been ranked as
one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report since 1993.
Wake Forest Baptist is ranked 32nd in the nation by America's Top Doctors
for the number of its doctors considered best by their peers. The
institution ranks in the top third in funding by the National Institutes
of Health and fourth in the Southeast in revenues from its licensed
intellectual property.

    About ARAMARK Healthcare

    ARAMARK Healthcare is a leader in providing best-in-class non-clinical
services that are essential to healthcare delivery. Understanding that
clinical excellence and the environment are interdependent, ARAMARK
Healthcare directly impacts the entire healthcare continuum -- patient,
employee, nurse and physician satisfaction, operational efficiency and
service excellence. Through its facilities, food and clinical technology
services, ARAMARK Healthcare helps more than 1,000 hospitals and senior
living facilities deliver the optimal experience for patients and
residents, their families, and the physicians, nurses and staff who care
for them. For more information visit www.aramarkhealthcare.com.

    About CenTrak

    CenTrak is a leading provider of precise, adaptable, and cost-effective
tracking infrastructure for healthcare facilities. The patented
InTouchCare(TM) RTLS infrastructure uniquely combines Gen2IR and active
RFID technologies to deliver certainty-based or error free data, a
requirement for workflow and other important applications. As the only
predominantly battery-powered RTLS technology, CenTrak offers a simple and
cost effective installation unattainable with legacy solutions.
InTouchCare(TM) is currently operating in millions of square feet at
dozens of world-class healthcare sites in the United States. For more
information about CenTrak, please visit www.centrak.com.

    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(TM) 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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Patient Care Technology Systems
Stephen Armstrong
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(949) 282-2571
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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Bonnie Davis
Public Relations
(336) 716-4977
Email Contact

Mark Wright
Public Relations
(336) 716-3382
Email Contact

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