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Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children's Hospital Select Patient Care Technology Systems' Automatic Tracking Software for Surgical Services Department

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 09:01 CST

Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS) announced today that the 741-bed Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children's Hospital of Long Beach, California, part of the Memorial Health System, has selected the company's Amelior ORTracker® automatic tracking software to improve workflow within its surgical services departments. The software, used to locate, track and orchestrate the flow of patients, staff and mobile medical surgical services equipment, will streamline care and optimize department management.

The automatic tracking software acts as a real-time communication portal integrating patient, staff and medical equipment location information. Data is collected from wireless patient and asset badges and sensors using an active RFID network throughout the surgical services department. The software, designed to integrate communications from surgery scheduling and nurse call systems in addition to wireless telephony, provides busy surgery departments with information on the care status of their patients to avoid delays in patient flow caused by a lack of information. Information is organized in status view screens for each stage of the department from registration to recovery units. A customized map view of the department depicts the location and status of patients, mobile medical equipment and room availability to further enhance department management. Information is updated automatically through the use of RFID locating technology which automatically updates patient information, eliminating the need for manual data entry. Phone calls, overhead pages and other intrusive or less efficient methods of orchestrating care are significantly reduced. Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children's Hospital have been using automatic tracking software from PCTS in their emergency department for more than four years, resulting in streamlined patient length of stays and improved department management.

"We are looking forward to enhancing our patient flow utilizing the RFID technology offered by Amelior ORTracker software," said John Stewart, executive director of Information Services, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children's Hospital. "The improved workflow in our Emergency Department convinced us that RFID tracking would provide the same or greater benefit in Surgical Services."

"We are very pleased to expand the breadth of our support for Long Beach Memorial and Miller Children's high acuity patient flow needs," said Tony Marsico, CEO of PCTS. "Perioperative departments have a tremendous amount of information and resources to orchestrate in a timely manner in support of their patients' care. The Amelior ORTracker system represents a highly efficient solution to integrate all key patient care information in a manner that reduces the administrative demands on care givers and enhances a department's overall efficiency."

About Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children's Hospital

Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children's Hospital, a 741-bed facility and the second-largest private hospital campus on the West Coast, is part of the Memorial Health System. MemorialCare Medical Centers are not-for-profit, community-based hospitals located in both Los Angeles and Orange counties and include Anaheim Memorial, Long Beach Memorial, Miller Children's Hospital. Orange Coast Memorial and Saddleback Memorial medical centers (Laguna Hills and San Clemente).

About Patient Care Technology Systems

Patient Care Technology Systems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSLR), provides hospitals with intelligent workflow solutions to improve patient flow and to reduce the risk of medical errors. The company's Amelior™ software suite includes Amelior ED™, a comprehensive emergency department information system, and automatic patient and asset tracking software to meet emergency department, surgical and enterprise level needs of healthcare facilities. Amelior automatic tracking software is compatible with all leading locating hardware including infrared, RFID, ultra-wideband and Wi-Fi. 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.

Source: Business Wire

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