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EXTENSION, INC. and AeroScout announced recently that the two companies have collaborated to develop integrated solutions that combine EXTENSION's VoIP alerting with AeroScout's Healthcare RTLS (Real-Time Location System). AeroScout's core healthcare offerings provide real-time location, status and condition information about assets, patients and staff. EXTENSION, INC. provides an appliance-based software application that aggregates HL7 and web-services data from all HIS and EMR systems, delivers relevant information to mobile devices such as Cisco IP Phones and cell phones and allows recipients to send automated responses via their device. Together, the two companies can provide a more enriched, clinically-relevant tracking and alerting solution integrated with the Cisco Unified Communications platform so that healthcare organizations can improve clinical and operational workflows.

Both AeroScout and EXTENSION provide solutions that leverage healthcare organizations' existing Wi-Fi infrastructure. EXTENSION offers a comprehensive solution suite, including EXTENSION HealthLocate for AeroScout and Cisco that utilizes the entire Cisco Unified Communications platform including Cisco Unified Presence Server for location services. Todd Plesko, CEO of EXTENSION, INC. noted, "EXTENSION can offer an extensive number of interfaces through a single, enterprise appliance. When healthcare institutions implement our solutions they can expect immediate improvements in communications among disparate systems, departments and across their entire organization. We are thrilled to have joined forces with AeroScout as this allows us to provide a solution in the fast-growing healthcare RTLS space with the recognized market leader."

EXTENSION and AeroScout can now offer the following features and functionality to healthcare customers:

• HL7-enabled AeroScout alerts,
• advanced AeroScout alerting via Text-to-Speech phone calls,
• alert management capabilities such as acceptance and escalation, and
• location-enabled EXTENSION alerts.

AeroScout's Director of Product Architecture, Scott Phillips, said, "Adding EXTENSION enhanced messaging to our alerts delivers even more value to customers from our Temperature Monitoring, Asset Tracking and Patient Flow solutions. We can now offer Text-to-Speech, priority alerts and queuing to our healthcare customers. Working with EXTENSION, we are able to help doctors, nurses and other hospital staff increase efficiencies and minimize the time wasted on coordination."

EXTENSION and AeroScout will be exhibiting at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society) conference March 1-3, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia and will offer live demonstrations of their integrated solutions in EXTENSION's booth #5955 and AeroScout's booth #8055.

About EXTENSION, INC.
EXTENSION, INC. is based in Fort Wayne, IN and is the developer of the EXTENSION Solution Suite (ESS). The EXTENSION Solution Suite of software includes HealthID™ and expands Cisco Unified Communications into a clinical workflow tool automating notifications using text messages, phone calls, and emails, as well as turning Cisco's award-winning IP Phones into user interfaces for clinical, administrative, and revenue cycle data. The result of employing Cisco Unified Communications and EXTENSION includes increased physician, management, and patient satisfaction, reduced cost and errors, immediate ROI, and increased revenues. EXTENSION tightly integrates any HL7-based or web services-based medical application with Cisco Advanced Unified Communications, using standards-based protocols. The EXTENSION HealthID smart card solution for healthcare provides encryption and identity management, integration to personal health records, and workflow improvements for patients, hospitals, and clinics. For more information,visit www.opentheredbox.com.

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, visit www.aeroscout.com.

SOURCE: EXTENSION, INC.