EXTENSION, INC. Launches New Interactive Communications Solution ...

Device Messaging connects clinicians quickly, quietly and securely

FORT WAYNE, Ind.?(BUSINESS WIRE)?EXTENSION,
INC. announced that it has expanded its suite of solution offerings
to include Device Messaging as a standalone solution. ?We have
identified a need for marrying the corporate phone systems in healthcare
that nurses typically use, with the smartphone platforms utilized by
physicians for more efficient communication,? said Todd
Plesko, CEO of EXTENSION. ?Most of us use text messaging in our daily
lives ? EXTENSION enables clinicians to securely emulate this
functionality on their hospital?s communications network.?

?We have
identified a need for marrying the corporate phone systems in healthcare
that nurses typically use, with the smartphone platforms utilized by
physicians for more efficient communication?

EXTENSION
Device Messaging includes the following features and benefits:

• Non-SMS text-based messaging
• Individual or Group messaging/texting
• Pre-defined or Custom messaging/texting
• Interactive messaging ? instant, two-way communication
• Message/Text Forwarding
• Intuitive, easily manageable interface
• HIPAA-compliancy ? authentication, encryption and logging

Device Messaging addresses a number of common complaints among providers
of health services, primarily: the ability to quickly locate another
clinician treating the same patient, the ability to contact another
clinician via text without worrying that protected health information
(PHI) is being shared in violation of federal law, and the ability to
connect with another health care provider without disturbing the healing
environment of patients. EXTENSION Device Messaging uses native apps
on the iPhone and Android platforms to allow for secure, logged and
auditable messaging between clinicians.

Device Messaging is integral to the forward-looking medical facility
that is seeking to replace outdated pagers with feature-rich devices.
EXTENSION is also capable of delivering messages to ANY device including
iPhone, Vocera badges, Android, and Cisco and Ascom handsets, which
allows healthcare professionals to continue using the device that they
are already comfortable with. EXTENSION, INC. is planning to release
support for even more IP phone system devices and smartphones over the
coming months.

According to Plesko, ?What we take for granted in our personal lives ?
the ability to send a quick, text-based message to let someone know we
are running late to an engagement; to let our significant other know we
will pick up dinner; to let our children know what time we will pick
them up from practice ? should also be available to us in our
professional lives. Healthcare professionals in particular have a
pressing need to connect with each other quickly, but they must be able
to do so without compromising sensitive patient information. EXTENSION
enables them to do just that.?

Visit http://opentheredbox.com/messaging.php
to learn more about Device Messaging and other EXTENSION enhanced
communications solutions.

About EXTENSION, INC.

EXTENSION,
INC. is based in Fort Wayne, IN and is the developer of the
EXTENSION? Solution Suite (ESS). The EXTENSION Solution Suite of
software expands Cisco Unified Communications, Vocera badges, Ascom
handsets, Apple iPhones, or Android-based smart phones into clinical
workflow tools automating notifications using text messages, phone
calls, and emails, as well as turning the devices into user interfaces
for clinical, administrative, and revenue cycle data. The result of
combining the aforementioned endpoints and EXTENSION includes increased
physician, management, and patient satisfaction, reduced cost and
errors, immediate ROI, and increased revenues. EXTENSION tightly
integrates any HL7-based or web services-based medical application or
device with corporate telephony systems, smartphones and other common
healthcare communication devices using standards-based protocols.
EXTENSION earned the ?Cisco Collaboration Partner of the Year for the US
Canada? award at the 2010 Cisco Partner Summit.

Article source: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110525006589/en/EXTENSION-Launches-Interactive-Communications-Solution%C2%A0-%C2%A0

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