Stanley Healthcare Solutions and GetWellNetwork Integrate Their Solutions to Keep Hospital Patients and Their Families Informed and Secure

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & BETHESDA, Md. --(Business Wire)--

Stanley Healthcare Solutions and GetWellNetwork, Inc.^® today announced that they have integrated Stanley Healthcare's Real-Time Location System (RTLS) with GetWellNetwork's Interactive Patient Care™ solution. The combined solution helps healthcare organizations keep patients and their families informed and secure by identifying caregivers that enter patient rooms and tracking when they visited. The integration has already been successfully deployed at Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel and is being deployed in other leading hospitals.

"Keeping patients and their families informed while in our hospital is absolutely vital to providing a positive patient experience and facilitating the best possible outcomes," said Brian Adams, Chief Executive Officer of Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel. "The information from the combined Stanley Healthcare and GetWellNetwork solution is much more accessible and timely for our customers than traditional paper or whiteboard methods, and it helps improve both patient satisfaction and security."

GetWellNetwork provides patient engagement solutions that help healthcare providers engage, educate and empower patients along the care continuum. Its patient-centered platform uses mobile devices, computers and televisions to enable providers to implement an Interactive Patient Care™ delivery model that improves performance and patient outcomes. Through its recent acquisition of AeroScout, Stanley Healthcare is a leader in Wi-Fi RTLS, providing solutions for tracking the real-time location, status and condition of healthcare staff, patients and assets, via standard Wi-Fi networks. Thanks to the integration of the two solutions, when a clinician that is bing tracked enters a patient room, the clinician's photo, name and role are displayed on a video monitor running the Interactive Patient Care solution.

"The integrated GetWellNetwork and Stanley Healthcare solution provides a new level of security, information and peace-of-mind to patients and their families," said Michael O'Neil Jr., Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GetWellNetwork, Inc. "The deployment at Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel is the first integration of RTLS with our patient engagement solution and illustrates the openness and collaboration required of technology providers to make healthcare better for patients."

How It Works

Clinicians wear Stanley Healthcare Wi-Fi RFID Tags that recognize who they are and signal when they enter and exit patient rooms. The specific caregiver's name and photo, along with information about his or her role, are then displayed on the patient's in-room video monitor. This makes it easy for the patient and family to know who is in the room and to verify the identity and function of the caregiver.

The information is also recorded so that the patient's family can look back to see when caregivers visited. For example, using the combined solution, a family member could check to see if the doctor has visited yet or see the last time a clinician checked in on their loved one. This reduces confusion and ambiguity with patients' families.

"Many healthcare organizations around the world use our solutions for staff and asset tracking, patient flow and environmental monitoring, and the implementation at Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel shows yet another example of the value of RTLS," said Scott McFarland, Vice President of Sales at Stanley Healthcare Solutions. "Together with GetWellNetwork, we are helping improve the patient experience and satisfaction at Wesley Chapel and other leading healthcare organizations."

About GetWellNetwork

GetWellNetwork, Inc.^® provides patient engagement solutions that help health care providers engage, educate and empower patients along the care continuum. Our patient-centered platform, delivered across multiple technology platforms including mobile devices, computers and televisions, enables providers to implement a revolutionary care delivery model called Interactive Patient Care™ to improve performance and patient outcomes. The company further extends the value of existing IT investments by integrating seamlessly with electronic medical record and patient portal applications.

GetWellNetwork is recognized by KLAS® as the leader in the Interactive Patient Systems category and exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association. Learn more at www.GetWellNetwork.com.

Stanley Healthcare Solutions

Stanley Healthcare Solutions provides over 5,000 acute care hospitals and 12,000 long-term care organizations with enterprise solutions that transform safety, security and operational efficiency. The Stanley Healthcare Solutions EcoSystem enables customers to achieve organizational excellence and superior care in five critical areas: Patient Safety, Security & Protection, Environmental Monitoring, Clinical Operations & Workflow and Supply Chain & Asset Management. These integrated solutions are complemented by consulting, training and Transformational Lean™ process reengineering. Stanley Healthcare Solutions is proud to be part of Stanley Black & Decker (News - Alert), Inc. For more information, visit www.StanleyHealthcare.com.

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