SAN DIEGO (October 17, 2008) - San Diego-based Awarepoint Corporation today
announced that UCSD Medical Center is significantly expanding its Awarepoint
Real-time Location System (RTLS) deployment. Following successful
implementation and a fully vetted return on investment at the system's
Thornton facility, the Awarepoint relationship has now been expanded to
include its Hillcrest campus, which is the primary hospital for the
University of California San Diego School of Medicine. The recently
renovated Hillcrest campus is a 386-bed hospital inclusive of nearly
1,000,000 square feet. The expansion to UCSD Medical Center - Hillcrest
more than doubles the coverage area and triples the number of equipment
assets the Medical Center is wirelessly tracking with Awarepoint's Active
RFID Real-time Location Solution.



"RFID asset tracking success at UCSD Medical Center's Thornton facility
prompted expansion to the larger Hillcrest facility, located nearly 14 miles
away. The expansion to Hillcrest also provides UCSD Medical Center the
ability to see real-time status and have complete oversight of shared assets
between both campuses, which are significant challenges for the Medical
Center today," said Kenny Woods, Senior Vice President of Sales for
Awarepoint. Thornton Hospital is UCSD's 119-bed, 238,792 square foot
general medical-surgical facility, and has been live with the Awarepoint
Real-time Awareness Solution for more than 18 months.



Tom Hamelin, Director of Perioperative Services is responsible for sourcing
UCSD Medical Center's Zigbee-based real-time location solution with a goal
to address several persistent problems relating to asset tracking
management, including:



. Lowering equipment rental costs

. Reducing staff time spent searching for equipment

. Minimizing equipment theft and loss

. Reducing equipment inventory requirements

. Improving equipment maintenance process

. Improving responsiveness to JCAHO and FDA requirements



"The significant challenge common to all of these is timely, reliable
locating of important equipment and assets," said Tom. Tom chose to
install the smaller UCSD Medical Center Thornton campus first to quickly
provide a quantifiable return on investment. "With the combination of
capital equipment expenditure savings and increased demand for asset
visibility among staff after the Thornton installation, it was not difficult
to get approval to expand into Hillcrest," continued Tom.



The Awarepoint Real-time Location System was selected because it offers
UCSD Medical Center room level location accuracy on an enterprise-wide basis
while providing a 100% wireless, non-disruptive installation. Awarepoint's
business model provided the hospital a low cost to start because there were
no construction costs and a fully managed service model that allows easy
scalability on a per asset per month basis.



About UCSD Medical Center

University of California San Diego (UCSD) operates San Diego's only academic
medical center system of hospitals, clinics and regional specialty centers.
The two-hospital system includes UCSD Medical Center-Hillcrest, licensed for
386 beds, and the 119-bed John M. and Sally B. Thornton Hospital, which
opened in the summer of 1993. UCSD Medical Center - Hillcrest is the primary
hospital for the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
The region's only academic medical center offers both primary care and
specialized services, including a full range: Surgery, Diagnosis and
Management of Genetic Diseases, Neurology, Orthopedics and Hyperbaric
Medicine Center. The recently renovated 386-bed hospital at UCSD Medical
Center - Hillcrest is also the primary site for such regional services as
Bone Marrow Transplantation, Regional Burn Center, Infant Special Care
Center (NICU), UCSD's Birth Center, the County's Only Level I Trauma Center
and the National Institutes of Health-Designated Clinical Research Center



About Awarepoint

Awarepoint's Active RFID technologies and real time location systems (RTLSs)
include its real time awareness platform, firmware, RFID tags, sensors, and
bridges. Awarepoint's technologies collect raw sensor data and transform
that data into high-value positioning information that can be used to add
location awareness to a variety of healthcare, manufacturing, security and
other applications. Requiring no hard wiring, Awarepoint's "plug and track"
network is a fully managed service, including hardware, software, remote
monitoring and maintenance. The company is headquartered

in San Diego, California and serves hospitals across the United States
through a national sales and operations workforce. Track us down at
RFID Asset Tracking | Hospital Asset Tracking | Patient Flow