GE Healthcare and TeleHealth Services Partner to Bring Advanced Nurse Call Solution to Hospitals

GE Healthcare and TeleHealth Services Partner to Bring Advanced Nurse Call
Solution to Hospitals
Partnership brings together each organization's unique expertise into one
solution, helping facilities address patient care technology opportunities

RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- TeleHealth Services, the nation's
leading provider of on-demand patient education and communication solutions
has become a Strategic Partner reseller of GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions
nurse call and communication systems including Telligence(TM), a platform
designed for healthcare facilities to address patient communication
challenges. By leveraging each organization's industry-leading services and
collective capabilities, GE Healthcare and TeleHealth will deliver
comprehensive healthcare communication solutions.

Telligence incorporates groundbreaking capabilities from traditional nurse
call systems. Combining Voice-over-IP and Powered Ethernet infrastructure with
a robust SQL database, flexible software clients and system integrations,
Telligence delivers a nurse call and messaging solution built to maximize an
existing network infrastructure.

Telligence provides a level of scalability, flexibility and reliability above
and beyond other conventional patient-staff communication systems. Combined
with TeleHealth's robust suite of technology products and unmatched customer
service, the offering will not only enhance patient safety and increase
patient, staff and physician satisfaction, it will also improve overall
clinical workflows.

TeleHealth further enhances the offering by combining comprehensive
consultation, design and implementation services simplifying the installation
process, while engineering the proper solution. Additionally, TeleHealth's
multiple financing options allow facilities the ability to work within their
budgets.

"The combination of each company's industry-leading solutions creates an
extremely valuable offering that addresses some of today's most complex
healthcare issues for patient safety and quality of care," said Steve Sholtis,
TeleHealth Services' VP of Hospital Communications Systems. "Bringing together
visual controls, TeleHealth's process improvement methodologies and GE's
global expertise in change management will enable healthcare organizations to
achieve higher patient, physician and staff satisfaction, improve quality of
care and increase nurse efficiency. By virtue of this relationship with GE
Healthcare, we can bring these concepts to help hospitals create a more
efficient, higher quality and safer patient care environment."

About TeleHealth Services:
With more than 2,500 healthcare clients across the country, TeleHealth
Services is the nation's leading provider of integrated technology and
communications solutions for the healthcare market. With 50+ years of
healthcare expertise and partnerships with industry leading manufacturers
TeleHealth Services is uniquely positioned to offer a full suite of hospital
technology solutions that includes:

-- Interactive patient and staff education platforms
-- Healthcare grade televisions and accessories
-- Patient protection and security systems
-- Bedside patient entertainment solutions
-- The latest educational and entertainment content
-- Custom designed communication systems
-- Comprehensive design, implementation, and service packages

-- Flexible financing solutions

Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, TeleHealth Services is a division of
Telerent Leasing Corporation, which was founded in 1957. Telerent is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of ITOCHU International, Inc., a U.S. company based in
New York City and Global 500 Corporation. For more information on TeleHealth,
call 800-733-8610, or visit at http://www.telehealth.com/.

SOURCE TeleHealth Services

Matt Barker, Director of Marketing, TeleHealth Services, +1-919-772-8604,
matt.barker@telehealth.com