Stratford, CT -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/13/2007 -- As part of the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center (ARMC) City Campus, the George F. Lynn Harmony Pavilion in Atlantic City, New Jersey recently opened its Emergency Center (EC), the first floor of a seven-story, $128 million construction project. The remainder of the City Campus expansion will be finished by mid-2008.

The AtlantiCare facility will feature the latest advances in medical technology and equipment throughout the patient tower, which in addition to the new Emergency Center will include a Radiology Department, Intensive Care Unit and four, new medical surgical floors.

With the kick-off of the new facility, AtlantiCare wanted to explore new options for communications. Taking the lead on researching wireless solutions for the new tower, Emergency Center Medical Director, Thomas Brabson, DO, visited similar hospitals to investigate options for clinical technology and staff communications. ARMC selected the Vocera (www.vocera.com) wireless platform, which enables voice-activated communications throughout a hospital building or campus.

Using light-weight, wearable, hands-free badges, ARMC physicians and staff use Vocera to initiate instant voice conversations among team members, across groups and throughout the hospital. Because the new tower's EC is spread out over a greater physical area than the previous Emergency Department and includes all private rooms, a large trauma bay and an emergency CT scan facility, a mobile communication solution was needed to ease workflow and improve patient and staff safety.

TPC Healthcare is committed to using proven delivery methods and providing support for Vocera installations. The wireless communication platform was late to make it on ARMC's capital budget list, creating a short window to deliver. TPC's ability to mobilize a deployment team quickly to meet project deadlines cemented the relationship.

When TPC was brought on board, the timeline to delivery was aggressive – less than three weeks to have the system up and running by the go-live date. TPC received tremendous cooperation from the hospital's IT and clinical teams to accomplish a great deal in a very short amount of time.

Because the new building was still in the final construction phase and had an independent wireless network being deployed, TPC set up a temporary system in the old Emergency Department to begin training and database development. For the week leading up to go-live, TPC provided extensive training around the clock with physicians and staff who would be using the new Vocera system. After this work was accomplished, the database was transferred to the production system the weekend prior to the hospital's launch date.

At 6 am on Monday, October 15, ARMC's new Emergency Center was ready to admit patients with the Vocera solution in place. Although initially being installed in the EC, ARMC is considering using the Vocera system throughout the George F. Lynn Harmony Pavilion.

"We knew clinical users were going to rely on Vocera from opening day on. We were impressed with how TPC's staff met our needs to deliver on time," says Charles Carr, chief technologist for AtlantiCare. Carr also points out that the Vocera platform paves the way for future technology innovation.

"In the old Emergency Department, you could see from one end to the other," says Bill McKenna, vice president of TPC Healthcare. "The new facility is more than double the size of the original and features private rooms. The staff needed a simple, fast, efficient way to communicate to remote areas of the hospital and this is where a Vocera solution is a great fit."

Early results of the Vocera installation have been extremely positive. "We previously used zone phones that had to be unholstered and dialed by hand," said Brabson. Using hands-free communication helps us work more efficiently, which contributes to quality care."

ABOUT TPC HEALTHCARE
Headquartered in Stratford, Connecticut, TPC Healthcare is a full-service technology and communications solutions provider delivering wireless voice, workflow/middleware messaging applications and managed support services to healthcare organizations. TPC Healthcare focuses on offering customers technology expertise, exceptional levels of service and years of experience developing healthcare communications solutions. For more information, visit http://www.tpchealthcare.com.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Stratford, CT -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/13/2007 -- As part of the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center (ARMC) City Campus, the George F. Lynn Harmony Pavilion in Atlantic City, New Jersey recently opened its Emergency Center (EC), the first floor of a seven-story, $128 million construction project. The remainder of the City Campus expansion will be finished by mid-2008.

The AtlantiCare facility will feature the latest advances in medical technology and equipment throughout the patient tower, which in addition to the new Emergency Center will include a Radiology Department, Intensive Care Unit and four, new medical surgical floors.

With the kick-off of the new facility, AtlantiCare wanted to explore new options for communications. Taking the lead on researching wireless solutions for the new tower, Emergency Center Medical Director, Thomas Brabson, DO, visited similar hospitals to investigate options for clinical technology and staff communications. ARMC selected the Vocera (www.vocera.com) wireless platform, which enables voice-activated communications throughout a hospital building or campus.

Using light-weight, wearable, hands-free badges, ARMC physicians and staff use Vocera to initiate instant voice conversations among team members, across groups and throughout the hospital. Because the new tower's EC is spread out over a greater physical area than the previous Emergency Department and includes all private rooms, a large trauma bay and an emergency CT scan facility, a mobile communication solution was needed to ease workflow and improve patient and staff safety.

TPC Healthcare is committed to using proven delivery methods and providing support for Vocera installations. The wireless communication platform was late to make it on ARMC's capital budget list, creating a short window to deliver. TPC's ability to mobilize a deployment team quickly to meet project deadlines cemented the relationship.

When TPC was brought on board, the timeline to delivery was aggressive – less than three weeks to have the system up and running by the go-live date. TPC received tremendous cooperation from the hospital's IT and clinical teams to accomplish a great deal in a very short amount of time.

Because the new building was still in the final construction phase and had an independent wireless network being deployed, TPC set up a temporary system in the old Emergency Department to begin training and database development. For the week leading up to go-live, TPC provided extensive training around the clock with physicians and staff who would be using the new Vocera system. After this work was accomplished, the database was transferred to the production system the weekend prior to the hospital's launch date.

At 6 am on Monday, October 15, ARMC's new Emergency Center was ready to admit patients with the Vocera solution in place. Although initially being installed in the EC, ARMC is considering using the Vocera system throughout the George F. Lynn Harmony Pavilion.

"We knew clinical users were going to rely on Vocera from opening day on. We were impressed with how TPC's staff met our needs to deliver on time," says Charles Carr, chief technologist for AtlantiCare. Carr also points out that the Vocera platform paves the way for future technology innovation.

"In the old Emergency Department, you could see from one end to the other," says Bill McKenna, vice president of TPC Healthcare. "The new facility is more than double the size of the original and features private rooms. The staff needed a simple, fast, efficient way to communicate to remote areas of the hospital and this is where a Vocera solution is a great fit."

Early results of the Vocera installation have been extremely positive. "We previously used zone phones that had to be unholstered and dialed by hand," said Brabson. Using hands-free communication helps us work more efficiently, which contributes to quality care."

ABOUT TPC HEALTHCARE

Headquartered in Stratford, Connecticut, TPC Healthcare is a full-service technology and communications solutions provider delivering wireless voice, workflow/middleware messaging applications and managed support services to healthcare organizations. TPC Healthcare focuses on offering customers technology expertise, exceptional levels of service and years of experience developing healthcare communications solutions. For more information, visit http://www.tpchealthcare.com.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Stratford, CT -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/13/2007 -- As part of the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center (ARMC) City Campus, the George F. Lynn Harmony Pavilion in Atlantic City, New Jersey recently opened its Emergency Center (EC), the first floor of a seven-story, $128 million construction project. The remainder of the City Campus expansion will be finished by mid-2008.

The AtlantiCare facility will feature the latest advances in medical technology and equipment throughout the patient tower, which in addition to the new Emergency Center will include a Radiology Department, Intensive Care Unit and four, new medical surgical floors.

With the kick-off of the new facility, AtlantiCare wanted to explore new options for communications. Taking the lead on researching wireless solutions for the new tower, Emergency Center Medical Director, Thomas Brabson, DO, visited similar hospitals to investigate options for clinical technology and staff communications. ARMC selected the Vocera (www.vocera.com) wireless platform, which enables voice-activated communications throughout a hospital building or campus.

Using light-weight, wearable, hands-free badges, ARMC physicians and staff use Vocera to initiate instant voice conversations among team members, across groups and throughout the hospital. Because the new tower's EC is spread out over a greater physical area than the previous Emergency Department and includes all private rooms, a large trauma bay and an emergency CT scan facility, a mobile communication solution was needed to ease workflow and improve patient and staff safety.

TPC Healthcare is committed to using proven delivery methods and providing support for Vocera installations. The wireless communication platform was late to make it on ARMC's capital budget list, creating a short window to deliver. TPC's ability to mobilize a deployment team quickly to meet project deadlines cemented the relationship.

When TPC was brought on board, the timeline to delivery was aggressive – less than three weeks to have the system up and running by the go-live date. TPC received tremendous cooperation from the hospital's IT and clinical teams to accomplish a great deal in a very short amount of time.

Because the new building was still in the final construction phase and had an independent wireless network being deployed, TPC set up a temporary system in the old Emergency Department to begin training and database development. For the week leading up to go-live, TPC provided extensive training around the clock with physicians and staff who would be using the new Vocera system. After this work was accomplished, the database was transferred to the production system the weekend prior to the hospital's launch date.

At 6 am on Monday, October 15, ARMC's new Emergency Center was ready to admit patients with the Vocera solution in place. Although initially being installed in the EC, ARMC is considering using the Vocera system throughout the George F. Lynn Harmony Pavilion.

"We knew clinical users were going to rely on Vocera from opening day on. We were impressed with how TPC's staff met our needs to deliver on time," says Charles Carr, chief technologist for AtlantiCare. Carr also points out that the Vocera platform paves the way for future technology innovation.

"In the old Emergency Department, you could see from one end to the other," says Bill McKenna, vice president of TPC Healthcare. "The new facility is more than double the size of the original and features private rooms. The staff needed a simple, fast, efficient way to communicate to remote areas of the hospital and this is where a Vocera solution is a great fit."

Early results of the Vocera installation have been extremely positive. "We previously used zone phones that had to be unholstered and dialed by hand," said Brabson. Using hands-free communication helps us work more efficiently, which contributes to quality care."

ABOUT TPC HEALTHCARE

Headquartered in Stratford, Connecticut, TPC Healthcare is a full-service technology and communications solutions provider delivering wireless voice, workflow/middleware messaging applications and managed support services to healthcare organizations. TPC Healthcare focuses on offering customers technology expertise, exceptional levels of service and years of experience developing healthcare communications solutions. For more information, visit http://www.tpchealthcare.com.

Milford, CT -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/2/2006 -- Regional technology solutions provider TPC Systems (www.tpcsystems.com) is pleased to announce it is partnering with Atlanta-based enterprise healthcare solutions provider USBiogistics (www.usbiogistics.com). Under the agreement, TPC will sell USBiogistics' state-of-the-art, real-time enterprise resource management solution to hospitals that are interested in improving patient care and increasing productivity while decreasing costs and eliminating waste.

Combining lean process design, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and enterprise workflow application integration, USBiogistics' ConcourseTM enterprise solution was designed to dramatically improve patient care by improving hospitals' ability to track and manage important resources. To date, more than 30 major U.S. medical centers, including Tucson Medical Center, Vanderbilt Medical Center and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center are using USBiogistics to deliver world-class healthcare.

A regional solution provider with strong ties to the communities and institutions it serves, TPC offers communications and safety technologies to healthcare facilities, schools and other businesses in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Founded in 1935, TPC prides itself on being a "high-tech, high-touch" business. TPC's customer care team works closely with each customer, pre-sale through installation and training, on-site and off, to ensure complete satisfaction.

"Partnering with TPC made total sense," says Tim Tower, executive vice president for business development at USBiogistics. "USBiogistics prides itself on offering healthcare providers a solution that optimizes critical processes enterprise wide, from patient flow to plant services. We work closely with each institution, assessing its needs, to develop a customized, technology-supported solution that will reduce capital expenditures and risk while improving staff productivity and patient care. TPC's impressive track record, strong customer relationships and dedication to customer service made it the ideal partner to offer our solution."

"TPC provides hospitals with communications technology, professional services and training to improve patient care and reduce costs," says Kenny Schiff, TPC's chief technology officer. "USBiogistics' offering is a great addition to our existing healthcare solution suite. USBiogisitcs clearly understands the healthcare marketplace and provides a means for hospitals to better keep track of their valuable assets and improve system-wide processes. This solution has the potential to save our customers hundreds of thousands of dollars and people hours. What hospital wouldn't want that?"

About USBiogistics

USBiogistics is a provider of comprehensive healthcare enterprise service solutions that integrate best-of-breed technologies and services. USBiogistics brings together enterprise service workflow applications with Auto-ID (RFID and other) technology, lean process design and an outsourced business model to help healthcare providers improve patient flow, optimize asset management and increase staff productivity. For more information, go to www.usbiogistics.com.

About TPC Systems

Milford, Connecticut-based TPC Systems, Inc. is a full-service convergence technology and communication solutions provider, providing integrated systems and professional services to healthcare facilities, schools, and businesses. In continuous operation since 1935, TPC prides itself on being a high-tech, high-touch firm. Technology itself is only part of the solution. Exceptional customer care is what gives customers the greatest return on their investments.

For more information, please contact:

Kenny Schiff

Chief Technology Officer

Voice: 203.878.1321, x107

email: kschiff@tpcsystems.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Stratford, CT -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/13/2007 -- As part of the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center (ARMC) City Campus, the George F. Lynn Harmony Pavilion in Atlantic City, New Jersey recently opened its Emergency Center (EC), the first floor of a seven-story, $128 million construction project. The remainder of the City Campus expansion will be finished by mid-2008.

The AtlantiCare facility will feature the latest advances in medical technology and equipment throughout the patient tower, which in addition to the new Emergency Center will include a Radiology Department, Intensive Care Unit and four, new medical surgical floors.

With the kick-off of the new facility, AtlantiCare wanted to explore new options for communications. Taking the lead on researching wireless solutions for the new tower, Emergency Center Medical Director, Thomas Brabson, DO, visited similar hospitals to investigate options for clinical technology and staff communications. ARMC selected the Vocera (www.vocera.com) wireless platform, which enables voice-activated communications throughout a hospital building or campus.

Using light-weight, wearable, hands-free badges, ARMC physicians and staff use Vocera to initiate instant voice conversations among team members, across groups and throughout the hospital. Because the new tower's EC is spread out over a greater physical area than the previous Emergency Department and includes all private rooms, a large trauma bay and an emergency CT scan facility, a mobile communication solution was needed to ease workflow and improve patient and staff safety.

TPC Healthcare is committed to using proven delivery methods and providing support for Vocera installations. The wireless communication platform was late to make it on ARMC's capital budget list, creating a short window to deliver. TPC's ability to mobilize a deployment team quickly to meet project deadlines cemented the relationship.

When TPC was brought on board, the timeline to delivery was aggressive – less than three weeks to have the system up and running by the go-live date. TPC received tremendous cooperation from the hospital's IT and clinical teams to accomplish a great deal in a very short amount of time.

Because the new building was still in the final construction phase and had an independent wireless network being deployed, TPC set up a temporary system in the old Emergency Department to begin training and database development. For the week leading up to go-live, TPC provided extensive training around the clock with physicians and staff who would be using the new Vocera system. After this work was accomplished, the database was transferred to the production system the weekend prior to the hospital's launch date.

At 6 am on Monday, October 15, ARMC's new Emergency Center was ready to admit patients with the Vocera solution in place. Although initially being installed in the EC, ARMC is considering using the Vocera system throughout the George F. Lynn Harmony Pavilion.

"We knew clinical users were going to rely on Vocera from opening day on. We were impressed with how TPC's staff met our needs to deliver on time," says Charles Carr, chief technologist for AtlantiCare. Carr also points out that the Vocera platform paves the way for future technology innovation.

"In the old Emergency Department, you could see from one end to the other," says Bill McKenna, vice president of TPC Healthcare. "The new facility is more than double the size of the original and features private rooms. The staff needed a simple, fast, efficient way to communicate to remote areas of the hospital and this is where a Vocera solution is a great fit."

Early results of the Vocera installation have been extremely positive. "We previously used zone phones that had to be unholstered and dialed by hand," said Brabson. Using hands-free communication helps us work more efficiently, which contributes to quality care."

ABOUT TPC HEALTHCARE

Headquartered in Stratford, Connecticut, TPC Healthcare is a full-service technology and communications solutions provider delivering wireless voice, workflow/middleware messaging applications and managed support services to healthcare organizations. TPC Healthcare focuses on offering customers technology expertise, exceptional levels of service and years of experience developing healthcare communications solutions. For more information, visit http://www.tpchealthcare.com.

Milford, CT -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/2/2006 -- Regional technology solutions provider TPC Systems (www.tpcsystems.com) is pleased to announce it is partnering with Atlanta-based enterprise healthcare solutions provider USBiogistics (www.usbiogistics.com). Under the agreement, TPC will sell USBiogistics' state-of-the-art, real-time enterprise resource management solution to hospitals that are interested in improving patient care and increasing productivity while decreasing costs and eliminating waste.

Combining lean process design, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and enterprise workflow application integration, USBiogistics' ConcourseTM enterprise solution was designed to dramatically improve patient care by improving hospitals' ability to track and manage important resources. To date, more than 30 major U.S. medical centers, including Tucson Medical Center, Vanderbilt Medical Center and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center are using USBiogistics to deliver world-class healthcare.

A regional solution provider with strong ties to the communities and institutions it serves, TPC offers communications and safety technologies to healthcare facilities, schools and other businesses in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Founded in 1935, TPC prides itself on being a "high-tech, high-touch" business. TPC's customer care team works closely with each customer, pre-sale through installation and training, on-site and off, to ensure complete satisfaction.

"Partnering with TPC made total sense," says Tim Tower, executive vice president for business development at USBiogistics. "USBiogistics prides itself on offering healthcare providers a solution that optimizes critical processes enterprise wide, from patient flow to plant services. We work closely with each institution, assessing its needs, to develop a customized, technology-supported solution that will reduce capital expenditures and risk while improving staff productivity and patient care. TPC's impressive track record, strong customer relationships and dedication to customer service made it the ideal partner to offer our solution."

"TPC provides hospitals with communications technology, professional services and training to improve patient care and reduce costs," says Kenny Schiff, TPC's chief technology officer. "USBiogistics' offering is a great addition to our existing healthcare solution suite. USBiogisitcs clearly understands the healthcare marketplace and provides a means for hospitals to better keep track of their valuable assets and improve system-wide processes. This solution has the potential to save our customers hundreds of thousands of dollars and people hours. What hospital wouldn't want that?"

About USBiogistics

USBiogistics is a provider of comprehensive healthcare enterprise service solutions that integrate best-of-breed technologies and services. USBiogistics brings together enterprise service workflow applications with Auto-ID (RFID and other) technology, lean process design and an outsourced business model to help healthcare providers improve patient flow, optimize asset management and increase staff productivity. For more information, go to www.usbiogistics.com.

About TPC Systems

Milford, Connecticut-based TPC Systems, Inc. is a full-service convergence technology and communication solutions provider, providing integrated systems and professional services to healthcare facilities, schools, and businesses. In continuous operation since 1935, TPC prides itself on being a high-tech, high-touch firm. Technology itself is only part of the solution. Exceptional customer care is what gives customers the greatest return on their investments.

For more information, please contact:

Kenny Schiff

Chief Technology Officer

Voice: 203.878.1321, x107

email: kschiff@tpcsystems.com

"Norwalk Hospital has been providing Norwalk and the surrounding area with high-quality service for over a hundred years," says Bernadette Rose, project leader, Telecommunications/IT. "We chose TPC as our wireless communication system provider, because, like Norwalk Hospital, it has deep roots in Fairfield County and is dedicated to providing high-quality professional services and customer care. The Vocera Wireless Communications System TPC is installing is going to provide great benefits to our patients and staff. The clinicians will have hands-free devices that will allow them to connect directly with other healthcare providers, eliminating the wait time involved in paging one another. These mobile devices will also be connected to the hospital telephone system so that incoming calls may be directly transferred to the mobile unit—another big time savings."

Norwalk follows closely on the heels of neighboring Stamford Hospital, where TPC recently completed a large-scale deployment of Vocera.

A regional solution provider with strong ties to the communities and institutions it serves, TPC began life in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1935. Since then TPC grown to be one of the leading providers of communications and safety technologies to healthcare facilities, schools and other businesses in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Unlike many national providers, TPC offers customers a level of service and support that is more reminiscent of 1936 than 2006, when you had a personal relationship with the people you did business with. Indeed, TPC prides itself on being a "high-tech, high-touch" business, with a team of customer care specialists who work pre-sale through installation and training to ensure that customers have the right solutions for their problems and that their people have the training and comfort level they need use to properly use and benefit from the technology.

"Healthcare customers are often at a disadvantage when they buy technology," explains Kenny Schiff, TPC's chief technology officer. "They know that technology can help save lives, but finding the money and the time, in the form of training, to support these new technologies can be daunting. Too many vendors just drop ship the technology, get it up and running and then leave. Not TPC. We understand hospitals and we take the time from the very beginning to get to know them," says Schiff.

"We don't go away when the implementation is done. Because we are a locally based company, we're there for the long haul. We're there to help them change and grow and take advantage of the product. We're going to be there today, tomorrow, next week, six months from now, because we know that customers need not just the proper tools but the proper training, support and customer care to make their implementation successful."

Stamford Hospital, which is working with TPC to expand its Vocera system, is a perfect case in point.

"Stamford Hospital's existing Nortel Companion wireless voice infrastructure had become obsolete, and we needed to find a way to quickly and efficiently deploy a replacement technology that would work with our nurse call and telephony infrastructure," says Michael Deluca, Stamford Hospital's director of infrastructure services and security officer. "Because we are in the midst of several other key resource-intensive technology initiatives, there is no way that we could have properly deployed Vocera without TPC's hands-on help."

About TPC Systems

Milford, Connecticut-based TPC Systems, Inc. is a full-service convergence technology and communication solutions provider, providing integrated systems and professional services to healthcare facilities, schools and businesses. In continuous operation since 1935, TPC prides itself on being a high-tech, high-touch firm. Technology itself is only part of the solution. Exceptional customer care is what gives customers the greatest return on their investments.

For more information, please contact:

Kenny Schiff

Chief Technology Officer

Voice: 203.878.1321, x107

email: kschiff@tpcsystems.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm