Awarepoint RTLS to be Featured in Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
 Interoperability Demonstration at AAMI 2013

Awarepoint will also demonstrate the company’s advanced RTLS asset management strategies, predictive workflow optimization and other market-leading innovations in booth #630

SAN DIEGO– May 21, 2013 – Awarepoint, the largest real-time location system (RTLS) corporation dedicated exclusively to healthcare, today announced that its integrated RTLS platform will be featured in an industry-wide interoperability demonstration led by the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise^® (IHE) Patient Care Device (PCD) Domain at the AAMI (Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation) 2013 Conference & Expo, June 1-3 in Long Beach, Calif.

Awarepoint, the only RTLS vendor member of the IHE Patient Care Device (PCD) Medical Equipment Management Working Group to date, will join other workgroup members – including Hospira, B Braun, Cerner, Philips, Amcom and EQ2 – in demonstrating how their enterprise applications and medical devices integrate to improve patient care and safety while reducing operating expenses. In particular, Awarepoint will demonstrate the use of Infusion Pump Event Communications using PCD-10 standard messages which, combined with location, provide greater insight into asset utilization. By identifying IV Pumps that are sitting idle in patient rooms, organizations can expedite the return of pumps to circulation and potentially reduce equipment purchases.

IHE is an initiative to create a standards-based framework for passing vital health information seamlessly within and across multiple healthcare enterprises — from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting.  Systems that support IHE Integration Profiles work together better, are easier to implement, and help care providers use information more effectively. The demonstration will take place throughout the AAMI conference in booth #837. The demonstration is sponsored by AAMI, the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

“Awarepoint’s hard work and devotion to the use of interoperability specifications based on industry standards has been a welcome addition to IHE-PCD,” said Steve Merritt, Co-chair of the IHE PCD Domain Committee. “Medical device-RTLS integration has the potential to transform the management of devices and potentially improve patient care while also reducing cost.  I’m very pleased with Awarepoint’s enthusiasm in driving additional use cases, including the development of industry standards for location services messaging, which is a new PCD Profile that we intend to develop soon.”

“We’re proud to be the first RTLS company to engage with IHE’s medical device interoperability initiative and believe very strongly in the organization’s mission,” said Jay Deady, president and CEO of Awarepoint. “For hospitals struggling to cope with the technology demands of a fast-evolving healthcare system, few initiatives are more important than interoperability, especially when it maximizes the value of their investments in EHRs, CMMSs and other major HIT systems by automatically populating them with real-time RTLS data for greater efficiency and better outcomes.”

In addition to the IHE demonstration, Awarepoint will also be featured at AAMI in booth #630 and at the Product Showcase on Sunday, June 2nd at 5 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall.  The company will demonstrate advanced RTLS use cases for par level equipment management, proximity-based utilization, infection control and preventive maintenance. In addition, participants will learn about the value of web-enabled asset management software and its ability to improve workflow and staff satisfaction for clinical engineering.

Awarepoint is also sponsoring the ACCE’s Annual members Meeting/Awards Reception on Sunday, June 2^nd at 7:00 pm at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Beacon Ballroom. During this event, Carlene Anteau, MS, RN, Awarepoint VP of Product Marketing, will provide an overview of current and future plans for IHE PCD-standard integration, furthering the value of RTLS in supporting patient safety, quality of care and asset management.

About Awarepoint
Awarepoint delivers the healthcare industry’s only cloud-based, Real-time Location System (RTLS) on a single platform of integrated software, technology, and managed services. By enabling predictive workflows to better manage assets, patients, and personnel across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite allows administrators and care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience, and economics of care. Dedicated exclusively to healthcare, Awarepoint’s experience and reliable, proven solutions power the largest healthcare RTLS deployments in the world. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com.

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Jodi Amendola – 480.664.8412 jamendola@ACmarketingPR.com

North America Award

Award recognizes top private companies and cutting-edge technologies poised for explosive growth

SAN DIEGO−May 8, 2013— Awarepoint Corporation, the largest real-time location system (RTLS) corporation dedicated exclusively to healthcare, today announced it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 North America Award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the North American business region.

Red Herring has been selecting the most exciting and promising start-ups and “scale ups” since 1995. Finalists are evaluated individually from a large pool of hundreds of candidates based across North America. Twenty major criteria underlie the scoring and process including, among others: technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition and financial health. The list of finalists often includes the best performing and prominent companies of the year.

2013 will be remembered as a special vintage. “The finalists list confirms the excellent choices made by entrepreneurs and VCs and the start-ups’ solid roots in corporate America, embracing their innovations. By all metrics, it emphasizes the United States’ entrepreneurial excellence,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring.

“We are honored to be a Red Herring Top 100 Finalist because it underscores our commitment to innovation in healthcare efficiency. Every healthcare provider leader I speak with is trying to cut 20% out of the cost of care delivery as they brace themselves for the full impact of health reform. The only way to reduce costs this significantly is to hone operations in order to ensure consistent delivery of the highest quality care, flawless communication, optimal patient flow, efficient caregiver processes, and fully-informed and satisfied patients,” said Jay Deady, President and CEO of Awarepoint. “Our clients have documented significant improvements in all of these areas, while also realizing a return on investment of 300 to 700 percent, which has positioned Awarepoint as one of the fastest growing companies in healthcare.”

Awarepoint’s patented aware360°Suite tracks and documents the location and interaction of patients, caregivers and equipment throughout the hospital enterprise – including complex, fast-paced environments like surgery and emergency departments. Its analytics and reporting capabilities deliver actionable data that enable hospitals to increase safety, eliminate equipment bottlenecks, lower bed turnover times, improve patient throughput, reduce capital purchases and optimize patient and staff satisfaction.

The aware360°Suite is the industry’s only RTLS solution that integrates software, technology and managed services on a single, cloud-based platform. This turnkey approach minimizes the need for hospitals to tap busy IT staff and support resources. Other Awarepoint market differentiators include:

• Exclusive focus on the healthcare industry
• 45-60 day deployments, the fastest in the industry
• Standards-based technology that is very low maintenance and doesn’t interfere with mission critical WiFi networks
• The only company that will contractually guarantee accuracy
• Rapid, documented return on investment
• Extensible platform that delivers early value while supporting the incremental expansion of RTLS solutions over time
• Business intelligence that provides insight for process improvement initiatives
• 25 patents – three times the number held by the nearest competitor
• Single point of contact for hardware, software, service and maintenance needs

These competitive advantages – combined with industry leadership and a blue-chip client list that includes Kaiser Permanente, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Providence Health and Services and Yale-New Haven – have helped Awarepoint attract investments from the country’s leading venture capital firms. Those investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund (HHIF), Cardinal Partners, Venrock, Jafco Ventures, Avalon Ventures, New Leaf Venture Partners and Top Tier Capital Partners.

Awarepoint will present their winning strategies at the Red Herring North America Forum in Monterey, Calif., May 21 to 23, 2013. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony the evening of May 23 at the event.

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About Awarepoint
Awarepoint delivers the healthcare industry’s only cloud-based RTLS on a single platform of integrated software, technology, and managed services. By enabling predictive workflows to better manage assets, patients, and personnel across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite allows administrators and care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience, and economics of care. Dedicated exclusively to healthcare, Awarepoint’s experience and reliable, proven solutions power the largest healthcare RTLS deployments in the world. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com.

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Amendola Communications for Awarepoint

Jodi Amendola – 480.664.8412                                                

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Healthcare RTLS leader reports significant client activations, sales expansion and technology offerings

SAN DIEGO−April 18, 2013— Awarepoint Corporation, the largest real-time location system (RTLS) corporation dedicated exclusively to healthcare, announced strong sales momentum and new technology innovations in the first quarter of 2013. Organizations continue to partner with Awarepoint to optimize clinical workflow and reduce operating costs, while improving patient flow, safety and satisfaction.

Awarepoint optimizes healthcare workflow by offering the industry’s only cloud-based, RTLS solution including software, technology, and managed services. The company delivers non-intrusive, rapid-time-to-impact implementations that go-live in 30-60 days, with room- and bay-level accuracy and guaranteed interaction detection. Awarepoint provides the most elegant solution for addressing both the economic and technical requirements associated with delivering RTLS applications for use in dynamic, technologically and operationally challenging environments like hospitals.

New Clients and Installations

Awarepoint installed 4.1 million net new square feet of coverage across ten clinical sites and more than 14,500 newly deployed RTLS tags including:

• Care New England / Women & Infants Hospital (Providence, RI)
• Kaiser Permanente (seven sites)
• Monongahela Valley Hospital (Monongahela, PA)
• Nemours Children’s Hospital (Orlando, FL)

In addition, the following clients renewed their commitment to Awarepoint with new contracts and the installation of new RTLS technology:

• Aurora St. Luke’s Hospital (Milwaukee, WI)
• MedSTAR Georgetown University Hospital (Washington, DC)
• ProMedica Health System (two sites) (Toledo, OH)
• San Joaquin General Hospital (French Camp, CA)
• University of Toledo Medical Center (Toledo, OH)

Finally, recent new client contracts and renewals include:

• Baystate Health (Springfield, MA)
• Christiana Care Health System (Wilmington, DE)
• Emerson Hospital (Concord, MA)
• Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles (CA)
• Kaiser Permanente (multiple sites)
• Keesler Air Force Base Medical Center (Biloxi, MS)
• Long Beach Memorial Hospital (CA)
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA)
• Spectrum Health (Grand Rapids, MI)
• Tri-City Medical Center (Oceanside, CA)
• UHS Texoma Medical Center (Denison, TX)

“Awarepoint’s ability to implement our integrated technology and software platform in only 45 to 60 days, combined with our workflow capabilities and deployment methodology is allowing our clients to achieve a return on investment of 300 to 700 percent,” said Jay Deady, CEO of Awarepoint. “In the current climate of healthcare reform, we are proud to deliver solutions that help providers address the escalated cost reduction and capacity management pressures they face.” 

Technology Innovation

Awarepoint is also announcing the general availability of its new Bed and Bay Sensor. The device uses technology pioneered by Awarepoint to precisely track mobile equipment and patient and caregiver interactions in locations with tight-bed spacing, such as the emergency department, and pre- and post-anesthesia care. The new sensor detects discrete interactions between caregivers, patients and equipment – such precision is important in interpreting activities and anticipating roadblocks in the patient’s care plan, while supporting proactive communication to drive action.

About Awarepoint
Awarepoint delivers the healthcare industry’s only cloud-based, Real-time Location System (RTLS) on a single platform of integrated software, technology, and managed services. By enabling predictive workflows to better manage assets, patients, and personnel across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite allows administrators and care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience, and economics of care. Dedicated exclusively to healthcare, Awarepoint’s experience and reliable, proven solutions power the largest healthcare RTLS deployments in the world. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com.

Media Contact

Amendola Communications for Awarepoint

Jodi Amendola – 480.664.8412                                                

jamendola@ACmarketingPR.com

SAN DIEGO – March 1, 2013 — Awarepoint Corporation, the largest real-time location system (RTLS) corporation dedicated exclusively to healthcare, announced today that Baystate Health, ranked as one of the country’s top 15 health systems by Thomson Reuters, has signed an agreement to install Awarepoint’s RTLS at the first of its health system’s three hospitals. Initially, the RTLS implementation will occur at Baystate Medical Center, which includes Baystate Children’s Hospital, in Springfield, Mass. The deployment will focus on tracking and managing assets to: improve workflow, productivity and efficiency; enhance patient safety and the quality and timeliness of care; and reduce equipment costs.

Baystate Health’s initial deployment will cover 1.3 million square feet, and track 3,000 assets. Implementation at Baystate Mary Lane Hospital in Ware, Mass., and Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, Mass. will follow.

“We strive to deliver the highest quality, lowest cost care to our patients, and our partnership with Awarepoint will help us reduce our cost of operations, save clinicians time, and increase staff productivity while improving the quality of care,” said Joel Vengco, VP and CIO of Baystate Health. “We are very excited about the rapid time-to-value that Awarepoint delivers, and appreciate the fact that we can implement RTLS without interfering with our mission-critical WiFi network.”

Vengco continued, “The Awarepoint solution will help us manage assets across our entire healthcare system more efficiently. Their aware360°Platform will provide the foundation upon which we can expand our RTLS capabilities to address other tough challenges in the future, including automated temperature monitoring, patient flow – particularly in our high-volume departments − and enterprise-wide capacity management.”

Baystate Health will implement awareAssets, part of the aware360°Suite of RTLS-enabled solutions that automatically translates real-time data into actionable intelligence by monitoring the location of patients, staff and assets. The awareAssets application identifies the location and status of mobile medical equipment with room-level accuracy using plug-and-play technology that allows enterprise-wide deployment in about 60 days, the fastest time-to-value in the industry. The software can also track device utilization and whether equipment such as infusion pumps has been properly cleaned, sterilized and maintained.

Other benefits that drove Baystate Health’s decision to partner with Awarepoint include:

• Demonstrable return on investment (ROI) with $3-$7 returned for every $1 invested
• Uses ZigBee technology that enables quick, non-disruptive installation, even in sterile areas
• Offers the only cloud-based, turnkey RTLS with an integrated software, technology, and managed services solution on a single platform, which minimizes internal IT involvement
• Drives equipment workflow, and not just basic tracking
• Allows for extensible platform growth with additional technology and software expansion as required to support future use cases and health system needs

The average U.S. hospital owns or rents at least twice as many mobile medical devices (pumps, ventilators, wheelchairs, etc.) as they need because required equipment can’t be located efficiently. This results in unnecessary annual rental and purchasing costs for healthcare systems in the $500,000 to $2 million dollar range. Nurses and other staff members each spend an average of 30 minutes per shift tracking down lost equipment—time that could be spent on direct patient care. Missing equipment also contributes to operating rooms functioning at less than 68 percent of their capacity and causes delays in transferring patients out of the emergency department.

“Hospitals and health systems are being asked to do more with less, so we constantly strive to help our client organizations deliver the most efficient, safe, high-quality care,” said Awarepoint CEO Jay Deady. “It is gratifying to partner with another top-tier health system like Baystate Health, which has been widely recognized as a premier healthcare organization known for providing outstanding clinical care to a diverse patient population that other healthcare facilities try to emulate. I also am pleased to see our client base continue to expand in the Northeastern U.S.”

Deady added, “Awarepoint’s RTLS platform provides a versatile, scalable, affordable and user-friendly option for addressing many of the financial and quality challenges hospitals face as the nation’s health system transitions from volume-based, fee-for-service reimbursement to a value-based approach.”

About Baystate Health
Baystate Health, located in Springfield MA, is the largest private employer in western Massachusetts, with more than 10,000 employees, and is one of the largest integrated healthcare systems in New England. This not-for-profit health system serves the healthcare needs of residents of western MA at its four hospitals, health centers, 60 medical practices, home care and hospice services, and many ancillary health care services throughout the region. For more information, visit www.baystatehealth.org.

About Awarepoint
Awarepoint delivers the healthcare industry’s only cloud-based, Real-time Location System (RTLS) on a single platform of integrated software, technology, and managed services. By enabling predictive workflows to better manage assets, patients, and personnel across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite allows administrators and care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience, and economics of care. Dedicated exclusively to healthcare, Awarepoint’s experience and reliable, proven solutions power the largest healthcare RTLS deployments in the world. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com.

Media Contact
Amendola Communications for Awarepoint
Jodi Amendola – 480.664.8412 jamendola@ACmarketingPR.com

Awarepoint currently provides the industry’s only cloud-based RTLS for asset management with an integrated software, technology, and managed services solution on a single platform, which is deployed in more than 100 organizations. By moving its industry-leading patient and staff tracking solution to the cloud, Awarepoint now can deliver its entire aware360°Suite of workflow automation solutions via the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, greatly expanding its ability to deliver high-value features such as fault tolerance, durability, high availability, redundancy and scalability, at a low cost.

“Awarepoint has a long history of RTLS-based workflow automation in highly complex environments such as surgery and emergency departments. We’re excited to be able to move these HIPAA-compliant applications from locally-hosted environments to the cloud,” said Matt Perkins, Chief Technology Officer of Awarepoint. “The strength of Awarepoint’s advanced business rules and sophisticated analytics help us automatically draw conclusions about the patient’s progress in accordance with their ordered plan of care. Enterprise-wide patient and staff tracking from the cloud expedite an already rapid return on investment and speed the deployment of new functionality to clients.”

With Awarepoint’s SaaS model, users access the aware360°Suite of software through a web browser, while the infrastructure and platform is managed on servers at a remote location. Strict regulatory compliance policies and technology protect patient data, the infrastructure and Awarepoint’s clients. The solution is powered by Amazon Web Services.

Awarepoint’s aware360°Suite reduces delays in care delivery caused by a lack of information by providing a visual display of a patient’s care progression. Immediate access to this dynamic data ensures that the appropriate staff and resources are available when and where they are needed. This eliminates roadblocks that often have an exponential “ripple effect”, causing widespread delays in patient throughput.

Jay Deady, President and Chief Executive Officer adds, “Awarepoint has an industry-leading track record for low-touch deployment of asset management and temperature monitoring RTLS technology and software in 45-60 days, eliminating the burden on hospital staff. By adding cloud-based deployments for enterprise-wide patient and staff tracking, we can further reduce infrastructure and maintenance requirements, while delivering powerful solutions that help clinical leaders reduce variability, drive Lean processes, automate decisions and simplify workflow to streamline care delivery. The need to achieve efficient patient flow is quickly becoming a business imperative and Awarepoint’s proven solution intelligently orchestrates care delivery in the most complex patient care environments.”

About Awarepoint
Awarepoint delivers the healthcare industry’s only cloud-based, Real-time Location System (RTLS) on a single platform of integrated software, technology, and managed services. By enabling predictive workflows to better manage assets, patients, and personnel across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite allows administrators and care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience, and economics of care. Dedicated exclusively to healthcare, Awarepoint’s experience and reliable, proven solutions power the largest healthcare RTLS deployments in the world. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com.

Media Contact

Amendola Communications for Awarepoint
Jodi Amendola – 480.664.8412 jamendola@ACmarketingPR.com

SAN DIEGO−Feb. 26, 2013— Awarepoint Corporation, the largest real-time location system (RTLS) corporation dedicated exclusively to healthcare, today announced that its integrated RTLS platform will be featured at the RFID in Healthcare Consortium (RHCC) Intelligent Hospital™ (IH) Pavilion at HIMSS13 (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibition), March 4th-6th, in New Orleans. Visitors to the IH Pavilion will interact with RTLS and RFID applications that can improve patient care and safety while reducing operating expenses. Participants will explore Awarepoint’s approach to improving asset management, patient flow, and care team efficiency in the interactive Emergency Room and Surgical Suite, as well as Awarepoint’s IH Pavilion kiosk.

Awarepoint offers the only complete RTLS solution for optimizing healthcare workflow. “We look forward to demonstrating how our hospital clients are leveraging RTLS to gain a competitive advantage,” stated Jay Deady, president and CEO of Awarepoint. “We will demonstrate our ability to capture real-time data that automatically populates the EHR and other HIT systems and produces immediate, actionable information that helps maximize the value of these major investments.”

Awarepoint is also sponsoring the American College of Clinical Engineering’s (ACCE) Clinical Engineering & IT/ACCE Awards Reception on Monday, March 4^th at 6:30 pm at the Marriott Convention Center, River Bend Room. During this event, Deady will describe how innovative hospitals are forging new frontiers in RTLS by creating novel patient safety guardrails and fostering patient flow, thereby improving overall quality and satisfaction.

“Awarepoint is proud to sponsor ACCE and their mission of enhancing the profession of clinical engineering through advocacy, patient safety initiatives and professional development,” Deady said. “We share their commitment and look forward to increasing awareness about how ACCE and HIMSS members can integrate and leverage RTLS solutions with medical devices and clinical systems to transform clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.”

“We are very grateful for Awarepoint’s support of our organizational initiatives, as well as our HIMSS and AAMI programs,” said Mario Castaneda, Past President of ACCE. “As the pressure of health reform continues to bear down on hospitals, our members appreciate Awarepoint’s genuine collaboration and dedication to making patient care safer, more efficient and of higher quality.”

HIMSS attendees can also see a demonstration of Awarepoint’s new Bed and Bay Sensor at Booth #6918. This new sensor uses non-disruptive, plug-and-play technology pioneered by Awarepoint to provide a higher degree of location accuracy than previously available. Mobile equipment and patient and caregiver interactions can now be precisely tracked in locations with tight-bed spacing or that are separated only by curtains, such as the emergency department (ED), including triage areas, and pre- and post-anesthesia care. The device was successfully tested at Delaware-based Christiana Care Health System and will be generally available on March 31, 2013.  Booth visitors will also learn about Awarepoint’s comprehensive, interoperable RTLS offerings and how they are enabling hospitals to improve patient care, streamline workflow and boost productivity.

Awarepoint’s aware360°Suite automates and streamlines asset management, ED and OR care, capacity management, patient flow, caregiver coordination, quality and regulatory compliance, and patient and staff satisfaction. The suite spans the entire hospital enterprise, leveraging tag location and movement to track report on, and proactively improve asset, staff, and patient workflows.

About Awarepoint
Awarepoint delivers the healthcare industry’s only cloud-based, Real-time Location System (RTLS) on a single platform of integrated software, technology, and managed services. By enabling predictive workflows to better manage assets, patients, and personnel across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite allows administrators and care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience, and economics of care. Dedicated exclusively to healthcare, Awarepoint’s experience and reliable, proven solutions power the largest healthcare RTLS deployments in the world. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com.

Media Contact

Amendola Communications for Awarepoint
Jodi Amendola – 480.664.8412

jamendola@ACmarketingPR.com

SAN DIEGO−Feb. 5, 2013— Awarepoint Corporation, the largest real-time location system (RTLS) corporation dedicated exclusively to healthcare, announces the launch of its new Bed and Bay Sensor that enables precise tracking of mobile equipment and patient and caregiver interactions in locations with tight-bed spacing, such as the emergency department (ED) and pre- and post-anesthesia care.

Awarepoint is currently accepting orders for the device, which will become generally available on March 31^st, 2013. Awarepoint will demonstrate the new sensor’s ease-of-use and functionality at the HIMSS®13 Annual Conference and Exhibition Booth #6918 in New Orleans, March 3-7, 2013.

Following highly successful beta testing, implementation of Bed and Bay Sensors is currently underway at Delaware-based Christiana Care Health System, which oversees emergency departments at Christiana Hospital, Wilmington Hospital, and the soon-to-open freestanding Middletown Emergency Department.

“Working in one of the busiest emergency departments on the East Coast, I am very pleased with what the Bed and Bay Sensor offers us,” stated Linda Laskowski Jones, RN, MS, Vice President of Emergency & Trauma Services at Christiana Care Health System. “The Bed and Bay Sensors are extremely accurate and allow us to capture interactions that are traditionally difficult to distinguish, such as those in triage areas that are separated only by curtains. Having access to this information enables us to make more meaningful and informed decisions about where and how we can make improvements.”

“We really appreciate our relationship with Christiana Care,” said Jay Deady, President and CEO of Awarepoint. “Christiana Care has been a client of Awarepoint’s since 2003, and is a collaborative partner in optimizing our solution to drive operational and clinical improvements. I cannot thank them enough for their efforts in testing the Bed and Bay Sensor, and bringing this great product to market.”

According to Matt Perkins, CTO of Awarepoint, “We’re very excited about this latest addition to our RTLS platform. The Bed and Bay Sensor represents excellence and innovation in research and development, and will help our clients detect discrete interactions between caregivers, patients and equipment – such precision is important in interpreting activities and anticipating roadblocks in the patient’s care plan, while supporting proactive communication to drive action. Clinical leaders are looking for solutions that help reduce variability, drive Lean processes, automate decisions and simplify workflow to streamline care delivery, and we’re proud to be a part of that solution.”

The Bed and Bay Sensor uses Awarepoint’s ZigBee®-based infrastructure to route data from RTLS tags on patients, personnel and assets to the aware360°Platform. The sensor is part of a family of products that provides the greatest level of accuracy for patient and caregiver interactions, creating an interaction region around a bed or bay. The ZigBee®-based 802.15.4 standard delivers the fastest, least disruptive RTLS in the industry – a 100% wireless, self-healing mesh network that assures consistent location accuracy. The physical layer radio technology and protocols are designed for very low power consumption at data rates that do not interfere with or burden WiFi signals.

The ability of the Bed and Bay Sensor to precisely and accurately track assets, patients and clinicians in small spaces is critical because it enables facilities to:

• Capture hard data for calculating critical care time by physicians for billing
• Document actual respiratory therapy treatment times for charge capture
• Leverage real-time, location based data to support clinical quality measures and value-based purchasing metrics in ED and OR environments
• Record caregiver time at the bedside for acuity calculation and productivity
• Drive workflow based on clinician/patient interactions and care plans to expedite patient flow
• Detect equipment in the patient’s care area
• Verify clinician interactions with patients for quality initiatives

Awarepoint’s aware360°Suite intelligently automates and streamlines asset management, ED and OR care, capacity management, patient flow, caregiver coordination, quality and regulatory compliance, and patient and staff satisfaction. The suite spans the entire hospital enterprise, leveraging tag location and movement to track, report on, and proactively improve asset, staff, and patient workflows.

About Christiana Care Health System

Christiana Care Health System, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, is one of the country’s largest health care providers, ranking 21st in the nation for hospital admissions. A not-for-profit, non-sectarian health system, Christiana Care includes two hospitals with more than 1,100 patient beds, a home health care service, preventive medicine, rehabilitation services, a network of primary care physicians and an extensive range of outpatient services. Christiana Care is recognized as a regional center for excellence in cardiology, cancer and women’s health services. The system is home to Delaware’s only Level I trauma center, the only center of its kind between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Christiana Care also features a Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit, the only delivering hospital in the state to offer this level of care for newborns.

About Awarepoint

Awarepoint delivers the healthcare industry’s only cloud-based, Real-time Location System (RTLS) on a single platform of integrated software, technology, and managed services. By enabling predictive workflows to better manage assets, patients, and personnel across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite allows administrators and care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience, and economics of care. Dedicated exclusively to healthcare, Awarepoint’s experience and reliable, proven solutions power the largest healthcare RTLS deployments in the world. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com/.

Media Contact

Amendola Communications for Awarepoint

Jodi Amendola – 480.664.8412

jamendola@ACmarketingPR.com

“It’s been gratifying to see how Awarepoint’s momentum and market penetration has grown steadily over the past 10 years, making it the market leader in healthcare RTLS,” says Jay Deady, CEO of Awarepoint.  “We are proud of the results we’ve enabled our clients to achieve, and excited about the future as we continue to innovate and help them thrive in an environment that will reward health systems that deliver safe, efficient, high-quality care. It’s an honor to lead a company that is poised for such dynamic growth and a privilege to work with such a knowledgeable, creative and inventive team who are dedicated to providing our clients with the most advanced, intuitive, and fast time to value solutions.”

Deady adds, “We are also grateful for our loyal clients’ trust and willingness to collaborate with us to ensure that our solutions improve patient and staff satisfaction and optimize patient throughput. We remain committed to offering affordable solutions that leverage current IT investments to improve communication, enhance care coordination, streamline workflow, and reduce capital investments and operating costs.”

Keys to market-leading success include:

An Extensible RTLS Platform
Awarepoint expanded the product portfolio in 2011 with the acquisition of Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS) in order to drive operational and clinical efficiency in complex environments such as the emergency department (ED) and operating room (OR). Integration of these solutions on a single software and hardware technology platform simplifies the addition of applications to address new workflow challenges with limited effort by the client.

24 Industry Patents Issued
Awarepoint has been awarded a record number of RTLS-related patents — three times the number of patents that have been awarded to the closest competitor. The commitment to innovation has delivered significant value to clients, including unequaled algorithm accuracy that drives clinical workflow, patient milestone management and throughput. Additionally, diligence in obtaining patents for this intellectual property protects clients’ investments and ensures long term value.

Impressive Group of Investors
The support of a world-class investor group is a tremendous vote of confidence in Awarepoint’s mission and ability to execute. Investors include: Cardinal Partners, Venrock, Jafco Ventures, Avalon Ventures, New Leaf Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.  Most recently, Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund led the last round of investment; Heritage is backed by many of the nation’s top hospitals, health systems and healthcare services firms, including: Amedisys, Cardinal Health, Community Health Systems Inc., Health Care Service Corporation, Intermountain Healthcare, Iowa Health System, LifePoint Hospitals, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Trinity Health (Novi, MI) and Vanguard Health Systems.

Outstanding Leadership on the Board of Directors and Management Team
Awarepoint is led by Jay Deady, president and CEO, who joined the company in 2010 and other notable visionaries including Dennis O’Leary, M.D., CMIO, who previously served as The Joint Commission’s CEO for 21 years.

Other major company milestones and achievements include:

• The largest single-campus RTLS deployment (>4 million square feet)
• The largest integrated delivery network (IDN) deployment (34 hospitals and 298 MOBs across 4 regions, with 27+ million square feet of coverage and 120,000 tags deployed to date)
• 40% growth in revenue and tag sales year over year, for the past three years

• 60 day deployments, the fastest in the industry
• Demonstrable ROI with $3-$7 returned for every dollar invested
• Only cloud-based RTLS solution
• Recognition/awards that include being named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare for three consecutive years

Deady concludes, “As we embark on the next 10 years, we reaffirm our commitment to being at the forefront of RTLS innovation through easy-to-use, patented technology that facilitates patient throughput and efficiency, and allows hospital staff to focus on what really matters – patient care. We look forward to another record-breaking decade ahead.”

About Awarepoint
Awarepoint delivers the healthcare industry’s only cloud-based, Real-time Location System (RTLS) on a single platform of integrated software, technology, and managed services. By enabling predictive workflows to better manage assets, patients, and personnel across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite allows administrators and care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience, and economics of care. Dedicated exclusively to healthcare, Awarepoint’s experience and reliable, proven solutions power the largest healthcare RTLS deployments in the world. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com.

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“With over three decades of experience and success in healthcare, Keith is a proven strategic and operational leader and we are honored to have him join our board,” says Jay Deady, CEO of Awarepoint. “His deep industry expertise and outstanding strategic management skills in influencing and growing organizations in challenging healthcare environments will help guide Awarepoint to the next level.”

Before joining Vanguard Health Systems, which operates 28 acute care and specialty hospitals and complementary facilities and services in metropolitan Chicago, Illinois, metropolitan Detroit, Michigan; metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona; San Antonio, Texas; Harlingen and Brownsville, Texas: and Worcester and metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts, Pitts served as Chairman and CEO of Mariner Post-Acute Network and its predecessor, Paragon Health Network, a home nursing management company.   Prior to that he was an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of OrNda Healthcorp, a hospital operator that Tenet Healthcare acquired in 1997 for $3.22 billion.

“As the industry’s recognized healthcare RTLS leader, Awarepoint is playing a major role in enabling hospitals and health systems to address intense pressures to improve quality, to improve safety and efficiency of care and to manage costs,” Pitts said. “Awarepoint is well positioned to grow rapidly, particularly as providers become increasingly aware of RTLS’s ability to solve their problems and drive revenue. I look forward to helping Awarepoint execute its growth strategy and further extend its market leadership.”

Heritage Group operates the Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund (HHIF), a $167 million strategic venture fund backed by many of the nation’s top hospitals, health systems and healthcare services firms. HHIF selected Awarepoint as its first investment in April. HHIF’s limited partners include: Amedisys, Cardinal Health, Community Health Systems Inc., Health Care Service Corporation, Intermountain Healthcare, Iowa Health System, LifePoint Hospitals, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Trinity Health (Novi, MI) and Vanguard Health Systems.

About Awarepoint
Awarepoint delivers the healthcare industry’s only cloud-based, Real-time Location System (RTLS) on a single platform of integrated software, technology, and managed services. By enabling predictive workflows to better manage assets, patients, and personnel across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite allows administrators and care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience, and economics of care. Dedicated exclusively to healthcare, Awarepoint’s experience and reliable, proven solutions power the largest healthcare RTLS deployments in the world. For more information, visit http://www.awarepoint.com.

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Amendola Communications for Awarepoint

Jodi Amendola – 480.664.8412

jamendola@ACmarketingPR.com

Awarepoint has added more than 20 million square feet of coverage across 32 sites and more than 82,000 newly deployed RTLS tags representing a 226% deployment growth year over year.

Recent Client Activations completed include:

• Kaiser Permanente (multiple sites)
• Yale New Haven Health System (New Haven, Conn.)
• Monongahela Valley Hospital (Monongahela, Pa.)
• Vidant Medical Center (Greenville, N.C.)

Recently Executed Client Contracts include:

• Kaiser Permanente (multiple sites)
• Aurora Healthcare (Milwaukee, Wi)
• Nemours Children’s Hospital (Orlando)
• New York – Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center (NYC)
• Promedica Health System (Toledo, Ohio)
• University of Toledo Medical Center (Toledo, Ohio)
• University Medical Center (New Orleans)
• Care New England / Women & Infants Hospital (Providence, R.I.)
• San Joaquin General (CA)
• Monongahela Valley Hospital (Monongahela, Pa.)

“It is exciting to help drive growing hospital adoption of RTLS by providing rapid time-to-value, reduced equipment and other supply chain costs; streamlined workflows, and quality and safety improvements enterprise wide,” explained Jay Deady, CEO of Awarepoint.  “It is really gratifying to see how client deployment growth and client achieved outcomes are now driving sales in the healthcare RTLS industry versus just the promise of such outcomes that existed only a few years ago.”

Cerner Health Conference

As part of its workflow improvement initiatives, Awarepoint began integrating its awareED solution with Rauland Responder’s new Staff Assignment interface to streamline processes for nurses in the emergency department (ED) as well as improve overall productivity and patient care. Awarepoint’s seamless integration of its RTLS technology with Cerner’s CareAware Tracking™ application is another example of how Awarepoint improves productivity and financial and clinical outcomes. The integrated solution combining RTLS technology, software and professional services will be demonstrated at the 27^th Annual Cerner Health Conference (CHC), Oct. 7-9, at Booth # 1511.

Thought Leadership

During the third quarter, Deady was featured in a comprehensive RTLS Q&A article in Intelligent Hospital Today, where he publishes a monthly column. Another article by Deady, “Drop ‘Where’s Waldo?’ searches,” ran in HealthcareIT News. Dennis O’Leary, M.D., Awarepoint’s chief medical officer and president emeritus of The Joint Commission, published “The RTLS Patient Safety Improvement Opportunity” in Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. Awarepoint customers told the RTLS story from their perspectives in a HIStalk article, “RTLS: A No Brainer to Enhance Top-Line Revenue and Drive Clinical and Financial Improvements” by Deborah Tuke Bahlman, R.N., a system manager of surgery information systems at Providence Health & Services in Renton, Wash. Brian Leader, vice president of Lehigh Valley Health Network’s orthopedic and perioperative services was quoted in “RTLS yields new data for managing patient logistics,” which appeared in OR Manager.

About Awarepoint
Awarepoint delivers the healthcare industry’s only cloud-based, Real-time Location System (RTLS) on a single platform of integrated software, technology, and managed services. By enabling predictive workflows to better manage assets, patients, and personnel across the enterprise, the aware360°Suite  allows administrators and care providers to advance the quality, efficiency, experience, and economics of care.  Dedicated exclusively to healthcare, Awarepoint’s experience and reliable, proven solutions power the largest healthcare RTLS deployments in the world. For more information, visit www.awarepoint.com.

Media Contact

Amendola Communications for Awarepoint

Jodi Amendola – 480.664.8412

jamendola@ACmarketingPR.com