U.S. Food and Drug Administration Clears Alcatel-Lucent Remote Patient Monitoring Solution for Sale in the United States

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Clears Alcatel-Lucent Remote Patient
Monitoring Solution for Sale in the United States

PARIS, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
today announced that the Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager, a secure and
reliable remote patient monitoring solution, has been cleared by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing in the United States.

The Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager supports remote patient monitoring with
an easily deployable solution for standard mobile phones from leading vendors.
It allows patients to provide health data using devices they're already
familiar with (e.g., mobile phones and medical devices such as blood glucose
meters) in a secure manner, without the expense, time and potential exposure
to other diseases that unnecessary clinical visits might entail. In addition
to monitoring, TeleHealth Manager provides reminders, alerts and online
reports to help patients and their healthcare professionals better understand
and manage their conditions.

Faced with challenges such as an aging population and rising healthcare costs,
hospitals and physicians are increasingly turning to innovative communications
technologies such as remote patient monitoring to supplement face-to-face
care. Especially for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and
hypertension, remote patient monitoring offers an efficient and accurate way
for care providers to regularly gather potentially lifesaving data. While cost
effective for health care systems and home care agencies, remote monitoring
also offers convenience, cost savings and empowerment to patients -- and
enables more informed treatment decisions that can result in improved
outcomes.

"The Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager supports our focus to enable
patient-centric healthcare through technology," said Tom Burns, head of
Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise and verticals business. "With the FDA clearance to
market this cutting-edge solution in the United States, clinicians and
patients will be able to better work together to monitor and manage certain
chronic diseases."

With the TeleHealth Manager solution, Alcatel-Lucent has taken advantage of
its strong relationships with telecom service providers and healthcare
organizations, and its global expertise in fixed and mobile telephony. The
Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager requires minimal capital investment to
deploy and can be hosted by a telecom service provider, a healthcare
organization or offered as a managed service by Alcatel-Lucent.

Additional information about Alcatel-Lucent healthcare solutions is available
online.

About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted partner of
service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions
to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A leader
in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies,
applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical
and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation
powerhouses in the communications industry. With operations in more than 130
countries and the most experienced global services organization in the
industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with a global reach.
Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 16.98 billion in 2008 and is
incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more
information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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