Real Time Location System Enables Government-Run Hospital to Leverage
Wi-Fi Network for Reducing Cost and Time Spent Managing Mobile Equipment
Reston, VA --- November 19, 2008 --- Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of
Wi-Fi based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), today announced that it is
working with GTSI Corp.(R) (NASDAQ: GTSI), an IT enterprise infrastructure
solutions and services provider to government, to deploy the Ekahau Real
Time Location System (RTLS) in the Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at
Fort Campbell, Ky., home of the 101st Airborne. Ekahau RTLS will be used to
wirelessly track and manage medical assets at the 241-bed facility, one of
the busiest military medical facilities in the world. Ekahau RTLS is being
installed under GTSI's Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2H (ITES)
contract. Under the contract, GTSI's project management team will oversee
the project.
Ekahau RTLS provides accurate, real-time and historical location information
about the location and status of mobile assets and people. Using Ekahau
RTLS, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital staff will be able to continually
monitor the location of mobile medical equipment, such as IV pumps, hospital
beds, wheelchairs and other clinical assets.
"GTSI is proud to be a part of this mission-critical and cost-effective
solution to healthcare management," said Bill Weber, GTSI senior vice
president of programs and services. "We all want to help our military
hospitals provide the best care to those who have served our nation. In
today's healthcare environment, there is little down time. Ekahau's RTLS
solution works with the current wireless infrastructure, eliminating the
need for another infrastructure layer, and is transparent to the patient.
The live implementation can start locating crucial equipment immediately,
thereby saving lives.
"Through our important partnership with Ekahau, GTSI is developing this
mission-critical solution so that it can be reproduced for every military
hospital that has a wireless network or a need."
Initially, GTSI will install 200 Ekahau Wi-Fi tags to track critical patient
care equipment throughout the entire campus.
"We are honored to be able to support Blanchfield Army Medical Center and
help them drive new efficiencies in their operations at such a demanding
time," said Tuomo Rutanen, vice president of business development at Ekahau.
"Our partnership with GTSI, who has deep roots in serving military
hospitals, provides military healthcare systems an easy way to procure,
deploy and integrate RTLS into their daily operations."
The Ekahau RTLS solution tracks assets by using one of many types of Ekahau
tags attached to an object or person, or via internal Wi-Fi radios, such as
those already installed in a wide variety of computing devices. Because
Ekahau RTLS operates by using the facility's existing Wi-Fi network, it can
be deployed in a few weeks and does not require a lengthy, expensive build
out of proprietary tracking infrastructure.
Ekahau technology is deployed in more than 150 hospitals around the world,
including D.D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center (Ft. Gordon, GA) and more than
a dozen other military facilities.
About Ekahau Inc.
Ekahau Inc. is the industry leader in providing Wi-Fi-based RTLS solutions.
Ekahau's customers, including several Fortune 500 companies worldwide, are
realizing the benefits of Wi-Fi based location services and innovative Wi-Fi
network planning and optimization tools. Ekahau's solutions are being used
in more than 150 hospitals around the world, as well as by manufacturers,
mining/oil/gas companies, government agencies and the military. Ekahau
partners include wireless software developers, leading system integrators
and international OEM partners, who develop and market wireless enterprise
applications. Ekahau is a U.S. based corporation, with offices in Saratoga,
Calif.; Reston, Va.; Helsinki, Finland; and Hong Kong, China. For more
information about Ekahau, please visit at
Ekahau - Home.
About GTSI Corp.
GTSI Corp. provides information technology solutions by offering a
Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM) approach to IT infrastructure
solutions delivered through industry-leading professional and financial
services. GTSI employs a proactive, strategic methodology that streamlines
technology lifecycle management, from initial assessment to acquisition,
implementation, refresh, and disposal. TLM allows government agencies to
implement solutions of national and local significance quickly and cost
effectively. GTSI's certified engineers and project managers leverage
strategic partnerships with technology innovators. These experts use proven,
repeatable processes to design, deploy, manage, and support simple to
complex solutions, to meet governments' current and future requirements and
business objectives. GTSI is headquartered in Northern Virginia, outside of
Washington, D.C. Further information about the Company is available at
GTSI - Solving government IT challenges with leading technology and dedicated teams of experts.
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