AccuNurse Delivers Real-Time Care Plan Functionality and New Dashboard to Monitor Clinical Trends, Performance and Compliance

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Vocollect Healthcare Systems (www.accunurse.com and www.blog.accunurse.com), a business unit of Intermec, Inc. (NYSE: IN) announces an expansion of its AccuNurse product to now include full, interdisciplinary clinical care plans, and the release of CliniConsole, a clinical dashboard that monitors resident and patient health trends at enterprise, regional and individual facility levels.

The AccuNurse clinical care plan is the industry's first and only interactive solution that provides real-time documentation via voice to trigger care plan suggestions using real and dynamic data. The new care plan also allows users to trigger point-of-care tasks to team members as care plans change. The assessment module provides the ability to quickly create voice-driven assessments to expand the value of voice beyond the CNA and to other key members of the interdisciplinary care team as appropriate. Updates also include voice support at the point of care for the Interact II Stop and Watch Assessment, and iPad support.

CliniConsole is AccuNurse's dashboard tool that provides corporate and facility leadership with the ability to self-monitor AccuNurse, both with key clinical outcomes such as ADL trending, and user performance and compliance.  CliniConsole provides key visibility into the data that drives the value of AccuNurse beyond the capability of site-level  reports, and helps organizations to easily determine strengths and weaknesses so that they can address gaps needed to remain competitive.

"With so much attention focused on healthcare reform and compliance, it's more crucial than ever for provider organizations to use the most progressive, cutting-edge technology to monitor and measure health trends and clinical performance," said Amy Harvey, Vice President of Product Development at Vocollect Healthcare Systems.  "Our new care plan functionality enables the interdisciplinary team to have a real-time view into the evolving care plans for each resident and patient, enabling better care and more interventions when problems arise. The CliniConsole dashboard pulls it altogether in a productive way to provide snapshots of trending data for patients and residents on multiple reporting levels of the enterprise, making this not only a useful tool for the clinical team but also for the operations teams. Both of these tools help organizations position themselves to deliver the best care possible and at the lowest possible cost."

CliniConsole will be commercially available on December 31, 2011 and the interdisciplinary clinical care plans will be commercially available in Q1 of 2012.

About AccuNurse

AccuNurse (www.accunurse.com and www.blog.accunurse.com) provides sound business guidance and data-driven clinical outcomes to long-term care's leading facilities. Through its CliniFusion model, which couples the depth and knowledge of senior clinical advisors with the power of voice technology, the company has taken a leadership role in preparing long-term care for 2014 reform, streamlining the work of the caregiver, and making substantial and lasting improvements to the performance of their facilities. This 'fused' approach to achieving clinical outcomes is what empowers AccuNurse to address problems no one else can. AccuNurse is part of Vocollect, a business unit of Intermec, Inc., (NYSE: IN) and the global leader in delivering voice technology to mobile workers on six continents.

About Vocollect

Vocollect, a business unit of Intermec, Inc. (NYSE: IN), is the leader in creating and providing voice-centric solutions for mobile workers in distribution and warehouse environments worldwide.  The speech recognition software and extreme recognition accuracy of in-vocabulary speech helps customers achieve a higher level of business performance through voice.  Every day over 300,000 workers worldwide use Vocollect's comprehensive voice solutions to distribute more than $3 billion in goods from distribution centers and warehouses to customer locations. A global team of over 2,000 supply chain reseller and channel partner experts supports Vocollect Voice offerings. Vocollect VoiceWorld Suite integrates with all major WMS and ERP systems, including solutions from SAP AG, and supports the industry's leading mobile computing devices. For more information, visit www.vocollect.com. 

About Intermec

Intermec Inc. (NYSE: IN) develops and integrates products, services and technologies that identify, track and manage supply chain assets and information. Core technologies include rugged mobile computing and data collection systems, bar code printers, label media, and RFID. The company's products and services are used by customers in many industries worldwide to improve the productivity, quality and responsiveness of business operations. For more information about Intermec, visit www.intermec.com or call 800-347-2636.

Vocollect®, Vocollect Voice® and Vocollect VoiceWorld Suite™ are trademarks of Vocollect, Inc. AccuNurse® is a registered trademark of Vocollect Healthcare Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

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