Ekahau and ICEGEIN Deliver Outpatient Tracking Application to Indian Hospital

By Ekahau, PRNE
Monday, May 31, 2010

Apollo Hospital Chennai Utilizes RTLS to Optimize Use of Hospital Resources and Minimize Patient Wait Times

RESTON, Verginia, June 1, 2010 - Ekahau Inc. (www.ekahau.com/), the worldwide high performance
leader of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (
www.ekahau.com/products/real-time-location-system/overview.html)
(RTLS), has teamed with India's Leading systems integrator ICEGEIN to deploy
Ekahau RTLS at Apollo Hospital Chennai. The hospital will use the Ekahau
solution to track patients who are having various tests done as part of
their annual check-up, in order to better utilize hospital resources and
shorten patient wait times.

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Each day Apollo Hospital Chennai offers annual comprehensive health
checks for 200 patients, which require them to visit a number of departments
- such as cardiology, imaging and the lab. Because these patients move from
one place to another frequently during the process, it is hard to monitor
which department is busy and which one has no wait, or whether a patient is
in the right place at the right time.

Using the Ekahau RTLS solution, Apollo Hospital Chennai will provide
each patient with an Ekahau T301B badge tag that will track their movement
within the hospital, as well as their current location and time there,
enabling administrators to identify in real-time where wait times are
excessive. ICEGEIN has automated the process using Ekahau tags, allowing
caregivers to press the buttons once a test is started and immediately
after it is completed. This process results in online reports about the
number of patients who have completed tests at any given time and helps
the hospital to track if all the patients have completed the tests they
have requested. The tags also will allow hospital staff to be alerted if
a patient leaves the facility before all of his or her procedures are
complete.

Ekahau RTLS is the only Wi-Fi-based location tracking solution that
can operate over any Wi-Fi network, regardless of brand or generation.
Apollo Hospital Chennai will run the Ekahau RTLS solution over its Cisco
network, which is used across the 30,000 square foot facility. With Ekahau
RTLS, Apollo Hospital Chennai will be able to achieve the best accuracy in
the industry, enabling it to pinpoint location of patients down to the
sub-room level.

"A patient's length of stay for these outpatient tests has a direct
bearing on our ability to manage capacity in our departments, and
ultimately impacts our costs and revenues," said Dr.Udhaya Balasubramanian,
HOD.Department of Preventive Medicine of Apollo Group, parent company of
Apollo Hospital Chennai. "Ekahau RTLS deployed by ICEGEIN shows great promise
in helping smooth our processes and enable efficient utilization of all
hospitals resources, while minimizing the time patients must wait."

Because it is standards-based, Ekahau RTLS can be quickly deployed in a
matter of days or weeks, eliminating the expense and time required by other
systems to install readers, cabling, choke points and exciters.

"Ekahau provided great support and service to help us quickly get the
Ekahau RTLS system operational at Apollo Hospital Chennai," said Anand
Surana
, CEO of ICEGEIN. "Ekahau offers top of the line location tracking
technology, which is not only easy to install and operate, but quickly
enables the end users to achieve a significant return on their investment."

"Ekahau RTLS gives hospitals more visibility and control over their
patient care processes," said Mika Kouhia, regional sales director at Ekahau.
"We look forward to expanding our relationship with Apollo Group, as they
realize the benefits of patient tracking for their outpatient services."

About ICEGEIN

ICEGEIN is a privately owned business with unique experience, expertise
and focus on developing unique, valuable and innovative enterprise-class
mobile, RFID re-traceability solutions targeting medical and healthcare
industries, banking and financial institutions, manufacturers, logistics and
also a wide range of organizations, enabling its users to utilize the full
capabilities of their resources. ICEGEIN has developed a track record of
client success, characterized by rock-solid accountability,
industrial-strength architecture and unprecedented time-to-value. ICEGEIN's
mission is simple to become the last best solution for the world of
re-traceability. For more information about ICEGEIN, visit
www.icegen.net.

About Ekahau Inc.

Ekahau Inc. is the industry leader in providing Wi-Fi-based RTLS
solutions. Ekahau's RTLS technology is routinely recognized for its superior
performance in customer benchmarking and competitive evaluations of
Wi-Fi-based location tracking 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 www.ekahau.com.

(c) Copyright 2010, Ekahau, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Media Contacts: Annina Pierson, Marketing Director, Ekahau, +358-20-743-5910, annina.pierson at ekahau.com ; Juliet Travis, Rocket Science PR, for Ekahau, +1-415-464-8110 x 215, juliet at rocketscience.com .

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