Eatontown, NJ -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/18/2020 -- Yorktel, a leading provider of collaboration and managed service solutions for enterprise, public sector, education and healthcare customers worldwide — announced today that it will be acquiring the business assets of Video Corporation of America (VCA), a New Jersey-based provider of audio video integration, digital signage, and unified communications solutions and services.

"With very little overlap in our respective customer portfolios, the team at VCA brings extensive experience in audio and video systems integration that will enhance Yorktel's existing capabilities, including engineering, fabrication, field resources, digital signage, and help desk support," said Ken Scaturro, President and COO, Yorktel. "In turn, the VCA customers will now be able to receive a broader suite of services, including managed conferencing services to include monitoring and alarming, media services and a full suite of staff augmentation skill sets. They can also benefit from Yorktel's robust Microsoft and Cisco practices," Scaturro added.

Founded in 1972, VCA has had a long and successful history providing Audio Visual, Post-Production and Broadcast, Digital Signage, and Unified Communications solutions and support services for some of the most prestigious organizations in the world. The company has a 25,000 square foot fabrication facility in the greater New York City area that Yorktel will now be able to leverage for its expanding customer demand.

"I am delighted to have the opportunity to bring the team at VCA over to Yorktel," commented Dave Berlin, President, VCA. "Both our companies share the same values, long history, and commitment to customer success. I am proud to be able to bring VCA's legacy of technical innovation, deep domain expertise and strong customer relationships to Yorktel."

About Yorktel
For over 35 years, Yorktel (www.yorktel.com) has been a leader in helping enterprise, healthcare, education and public sector customers plan, navigate and successfully execute their digital workplace transformation initiatives. Our global team works with yours to ensure all aspects of these initiatives, including systems evaluations, network preparedness, technology assessments, change management planning, device and network management and monitoring have been addressed. We then design, integrate and manage the communication and collaboration solutions that enable your connected workforce. Follow Yorktel on Twitter: @yorktelcorp.

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The new Gateway and Teams Voice Services will be demonstrated at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Nov. 4-8

Eatontown, NJ -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/31/2019 -- Yorktel, a leading provider of IT services and solutions — including managed services for enterprise, federal government, and public sector customers worldwide — will unveil two new services at Microsoft Ignite 2019 that dramatically enhance the use of Microsoft Teams. Both services will be added to Yorktel's portfolio of Univago Cloud Service offerings. The Microsoft Teams Gateway Service, built on the Microsoft certified Pexip platform, enables companies deploying Microsoft Teams to achieve a fully modern and integrated workplace environment by supporting collaboration between any standards-based equipment such as Cisco, Polycom or via a web browser and Skype for Business clients.

The Univago Teams Voice Service allows organizations to quickly enable Microsoft Teams cloud voice calling with the option to use their existing carrier SIP trunk lines. This dramatically simplifies voice infrastructures, allowing organizations to expand on the benefits of Microsoft Intelligent Communications to better connect employees, boost productivity and create efficiencies.

These two services are part of the evolution of Yorktel's Univago Cloud Services portfolio. Yorktel has engineered the Microsoft Teams Voice service to meet the needs of large and mid-size, enterprise and government organizations who are looking to move to or add Microsoft Teams cloud voice calling to their communication strategy, eliminating the need to invest in the purchase of additional hardware and software.

"Yorktel's Microsoft Solutions Practice is able to provide a 100% Microsoft Azure-based voice solution that doesn't require any on-premise equipment, hosting fees or costly third-party hardware," said Ken Scaturro, President and COO at Yorktel. "We can quickly and economically enable Microsoft Teams Direct Routing utilizing our clients' existing SIP trunks, eliminating the hassle of transferring phone numbers or provisioning new lines. Our distributed architecture is implemented worldwide within Microsoft Azure datacenters where it connects directly to Microsoft Teams servers."

Many companies that are expanding globally or have completed mergers and acquisitions find themselves in the situation where a wide variety of disparate technologies are being used in conference rooms across the organization. One company may have rooms outfitted with a Cisco WebEx system, but they need to dial into a Microsoft Teams call to communicate with another division that may still be on Skype for Business or Poly. The Univago Teams Gateway service allows clients with these disparate technologies to connect to a Teams meeting quickly and seamlessly.

"These two new services are another step in our commitment to providing solutions the market is demanding today," said Ken Scaturro. "As organizations all over the world continue their digital workplace transformations using the Microsoft ecosystem, we will continue to offer new consulting, integration, and Managed Services that address the changing digital workplace needs of our customers."

About Microsoft Ignite
Connecting over 25,000 individuals in software development, security, architecture and IT, the conference will take place in the Orange County Convention Center November 4-8 and will feature 1,500-plus sessions, in addition to over 200 hands-on experiences, in which attendees can learn about the latest cloud-based technologies, like Yorktel's Microsoft Teams services, and discover new ways to enhance the communication and collaboration infrastructure within their organizations. Learn more about all of Yorktel's Univago cloud-based services and Microsoft capabilities at the Yorktel booth (#1307) from 8 am - 5 pm, Monday, November 4, through Friday, November 8.

About Yorktel
For over 35 years, Yorktel (www.yorktel.com) has been a leader in helping enterprise, healthcare, and federal government customers plan, navigate and successfully execute their digital workplace transformation initiatives. Our global team works with yours to ensure all aspects of these initiatives, including systems evaluations, network preparedness, technology assessments, change management planning, device and network management and monitoring have been addressed. We then design, integrate and manage the communication and collaboration solutions that keep you connected and moving forward. Follow Yorktel on Twitter: @yorktelcorp.

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Caregility to enable virtual care solutions for healthcare industry, as Yorktel retains focus on building and supporting next generation IT services and solutions.

Eatontown, NJ -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/19/2019 -- Yorktel, a leading provider of IT services and solutions to include managed services for enterprise, healthcare, and public sector customers worldwide, announced the spin-off of its extremely successful healthcare practice to form a new company, Caregility. The new company will be comprised of Yorktel's entire healthcare practice team and focus on enabling end-to-end virtual care and communication solutions to the healthcare industry. Both Caregility and Yorktel will be separate subsidiaries of YTC Holdings.

Poised for growth in a rapidly expanding market, Caregility has developed a platform with a suite of software and related services which is offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) business model to better serve its healthcare customer base. The new business structure has Caregility leveraging and extending Yorktel's incumbent healthcare expertise, while enabling Yorktel to focus on growing its closely-knit set of AV, IT and collaboration solutions.

Ron Gaboury, who is CEO of Yorktel, will remain CEO of the entire organization, working with each subsidiaries' leadership team to direct company strategy and business objectives while monitoring overall corporate performance. "We are proud of what Yorktel has accomplished in the development of UHE, our telehealth platform, and its associated applications and solutions," said Yorktel CEO Ron Gaboury. "Our initial investments enabled us to establish a robust product road map, and we are excited to see where we can take the line of business. With that in mind, management decided this was the perfect time to move the healthcare practice into a separate organization and seek additional investment. This new investment will allow us to expand our development team, enhance our support infrastructure and pursue healthcare focused sales and marketing efforts."

Michael Brandofino, formerly COO of Yorktel, has been named President and COO of Caregility, while Ken Scaturro, currently CRO of Yorktel, has been named President and COO of Yorktel. "For the past several years, we've had the privilege of working with healthcare organizations who are pioneers in the telehealth industry," Brandofino said. "As a result, we've developed a robust technology road map containing solutions that have never been offered in the marketplace. As demand for seamless video communication continues to become a core requirement in all manner of patient care, these solutions will continue to resonate and bring meaningful value to healthcare organizations. This is a very exciting time to be in this industry and I'm looking forward to leading the Caregility team towards helping healthcare providers with their mission of providing quality care and enhanced patient outcomes."

According to a recent Market Insights report from the American Hospital Association Center for Health Innovation, telehealth has become critical to health care transformation as a strategy to improve access and value and cost reductions. Telehealth is becoming the patient's "point of access for urgent care, triage for emergent conditions, specialty consults, post-discharge management, medication education, behavioral health counseling, chronic care management and more." Caregility's mission aligns with its focus on moving the access point of care closer to the patient across the care continuum, using its universal communications platform and a vast network of access point of care systems.

"Over the years, Yorktel has made strategic investments in its healthcare practice, enabling it to offer customers innovative technology and differentiated business models in a highly competitive marketplace," explains Ira M. Weinstein, founder and managing partner of analyst firm Recon Research. "Spinning off its highly successful healthcare division is a wise move that will allow Yorktel, and the newly formed Caregility, to focus on their core areas of expertise."

"As enterprises continue to transform their workplaces and embrace innovative collaboration techniques that enhance productivity, Yorktel is ideally positioned to drive change management and influence user adoption," said Scaturro. "Our success in the healthcare industry is another demonstration of Yorktel's commitment to innovation, and we will continue to deliver creative and timely solutions and services to our customers."

To learn more about Caregility, visit http://www.caregility.com
To learn more about Yorktel, visit http://www.yorktel.com

About Yorktel
For over 35 years, Yorktel (http://www.yorktel.com) has been a leader in helping enterprise, healthcare, and federal government customers plan, navigate and successfully execute their digital workplace transformation initiatives. Our global team works with yours to ensure all aspects of these initiatives, including systems evaluations, network preparedness, technology assessments, change management planning, device and network management and monitoring have been addressed. We then design, integrate and manage the communication and collaboration solutions that keep you connected and moving forward. For more information, visit Yorktel online at http://www.yorktel.com or email learnmore@yorktel.com. Follow Yorktel on Twitter: @yorktelcorp.

About Caregility
Caregility (http://www.caregility.com) is a clinical collaboration and communications company moving the access point of care closer to the patient. Leveraging its eight years of experience in clinical environments, Caregility's core offering, the UHE Platform, is a purpose-built ecosystem for the entire healthcare continuum. The UHE Platform provides secure, reliable two-way audio and video communication designed for any device and clinical workflow, in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Today, Caregility supports 6,500 access points of care systems across the US. From ambulatory/acute/ICU/post-acute care settings to virtual care operation centers to patients in the home, Caregility is helping transform patient care delivery. For more information, visit www.caregility.com. Follow Caregility on Twitter: @caregility.

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The Acute Unit allows for expansion from the ICU into other areas for virtual care programs

Eatontown, NJ -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/11/2019 -- Yorktel today announced a new addition to its Univago HE™ healthcare communications solution suite – the Acute patient solution. With the same intuitive clinician interface as the Univago HE ICU, Acute has been purpose built to give hospitals a flexible solution for greater expansion into patient environments outside of the ICU such as medical-surgical units, step-down units, and emergency departments, providing remote clinical and monitoring workflows to the greater patient population.

Acute can also be used for inpatient telehealth programs such as on demand remote specialty consults, clinical assessment and intervention, patient education, and hospitalist/wound/proactive/sepsis/discharge planning rounding. Acute offers the same features and functionality users have come to rely on from Univago HE solutions, including night vision, advanced remote camera and audio controls, ad hoc expansion to multiple participants with a text or e-mail link, and a patient on hold feature for private sidebar discussions with remote participants.

Acute is fully interoperable with iObserver™, the company's patient observation application. iObserver was developed to protect the safety of patients who are a fall risk, raise behavioral health concerns or those who are at-risk but do not require being placed in an ICU room. The Acute unit's unique footprint creates a balance between space and enhanced visualization capabilities, both for the patient, the family and/or the remote healthcare provider, without sacrificing features or functionality.

"With the addition of Acute into our Univago HE platform, we are now able to support a greater range of clinical workflows within a healthcare environment," said John Vitale SVP of Product Management for Yorktel. "Offering a single versatile platform for multiple workflows provides better patient care and outcomes, delivers ease of use and interoperability, saving time, money and frustration."

Univago HE was created to help healthcare providers streamline and simplify collaboration and improve patient outcomes by enabling clinicians to focus on the delivery of quality care without having to worry about the complexity or reliability of telemedicine technology. With a flexible, standards-based design, the versatility of the Univago HE platform gives healthcare systems the ability to consolidate their various telehealth programs onto a single video platform, improving clinician efficiency and potential care response time and providing a strong positive return on investment.

Yorktel will be exhibiting the Acute unit at the upcoming HIMSS conference February 11-15 in Orlando, FL at booth #1973. Learn more about Univago HE, iObserver, Acute and Yorktel's suite of virtual care solutions, visit www.yorktel.com/HIMSS19.

For more information about Yorktel's Acute Wall Unit or Yorktel's Univago HE Platform, please visit http://www.yorktel.com/healthcare

About Yorktel
Yorktel (www.yorktel.com) is a leading global provider of cloud and managed services for healthcare, large enterprise, and federal government customers. Founded in 1985 and with offices throughout the US and EMEA, Yorktel enables customers to successfully integrate secure and reliable communications into their operations – from telemedicine and organizational collaboration to consulting and managed services. Yorktel designs, integrates and manages system-wide communications solutions. For more information, visit Yorktel online at http://www.yorktel.com or email learnmore@yorktel.com. Follow Yorktel on Twitter: @yorktelcorp.

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“Enhanced solution offers real-time two-way audio and video communication at the bedside.”

Eatontown, NJ -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/07/2019 -- At Cone Health, a tele-ICU is more than a way to remotely manage patients. Cone Health's tele-ICU, called eLink, reduces mortality, shortens time in the ICU and even lowers progression to septic shock. The newest version of eLink lets Cone Health customize new and existing workflows. It now uses Yorktel's Univago HE as its video platform.

Yorktel, a leading global provider of health care communications and managed service solutions, announced completion of the integration of two-way audio and video communications launched directly from Epic. The solution has been integrated into Cone Health's virtual care service and is now operational. Cone Health, headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, is one of the region's largest and most comprehensive health networks. It has more than 100 locations, including six hospitals, three ambulatory care centers, three outpatient surgery centers, three urgent care centers, a retirement community, more than 100 physician practice sites and multiple centers of excellence. Cone Health's virtual care service, eLink, has been serving patients for 12 years. It was the first tele-ICU in North Carolina.

"The collaboration with Yorktel Univago HE and Cone Health to deliver comprehensive virtual care is a great example of our commitment to excellence and delivering exceptional care to our patients," commented Teri Wyatt, RN, MBA, NE-BC, nursing director of eLink. "An example of that is the ability to invite doctors or even family into a live video call simply by sending a text message."

"This is just the beginning of our health care innovation strategy for Univago HE, and we're very honored to have been chosen to partner with Cone Health to deliver the next level of virtual care," commented Ron Gaboury, CEO, Yorktel. "Our mission at Yorktel is to bring people together by making the virtual communication and collaboration experience simple and seamless. We look forward to working with Cone Health to virtually connect patients with their health care providers, clinicians and families through the powerful eLink platform."

eLink supports over 1,000 calls per week providing expanded care for critically ill patients in five different locations in the Cone Health network. Some of the benefits of the new integration with Univago HE include:

- Seamless video communications launched from within Epic for optimized clinician workflow.
- High-quality video/audio, including night vision.
- Simple and intuitive clinician controls of camera and audio to enhance virtual interaction.
- High availability and reliability of the video platform and in-room equipment.
- Flexibility to add other clinicians, care team members and/or family members to video sessions on an ad hoc basis.

February 12 to 14, Yorktel will be exhibiting at HIMSS in Orlando, Florida. Representatives from Cone Health will present each morning at 10:30 in Yorktel's booth (#1973) and discuss the integration and deployment of eLink with Univago HE and Epic. The Cone Health team will be available to answer questions about their solution. To learn more about the presentation and to register for a personal briefing, click here.

About Yorktel
Yorktel (http://www.yorktel.com) is a leading global provider of cloud and managed services for health care, large enterprise, and federal government customers. Founded in 1985 and with offices throughout the US and EMEA, Yorktel enables customers to successfully integrate secure and reliable video into their health care operations – from telemedicine and organizational collaboration to consulting and managed services. Yorktel designs, integrates and manages health care system-wide video communications solutions. For more information, visit Yorktel online at http://www.yorktel.com or email learnmore@yorktel.com. Follow Yorktel on Twitter: @yorktelcorp.

About Cone Health
Cone Health is committed to being a national leader in quality, service and cost. The integrated health care network consists of Alamance Regional Medical Center, Annie Penn Hospital, Cone Health Behavioral Health Hospital, The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Wesley Long Hospital, Women's Hospital, Cone Health Medical Group, MedCenter High Point, MedCenter Kernersville, MedCenter Mebane, Triad HealthCare Network and various outpatient clinics and programs. More than 12,000 exceptional people provide exceptional care to the people of Guilford, Alamance, Rockingham, Forsyth, Caswell and Randolph counties.

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