Aceso™ and ComQi™ Partner to Provide an End-to-End Video Network Solution for the Healthcare Sector

NEW YORK and BOSTON, July 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ComQi™, the global multi-channel message management company, and Aceso™, a healthcare management and communications solutions provider, announced their partnership in serving the healthcare sector with turn-key digital media solutions.

Aceso has integrated ComQi's Engage Content Management platform into its enterprise level UpTech™ platform offering a cloud based digital media solution for a full range of creative options to hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout the country. The content network will be for staff, patients and visitor viewing; including patient testimonials, stories of strength and local messaging with entertaining video features, news and weather as well as informative facility information. Hospital waiting rooms, cafeterias, lobbies and lounges in a facility will be populated with interactive media solutions.

In addition, ComQi and Aceso will also offer healthcare facilities interactive wayfinding solutions for touch screen kiosks and other interactive viewing mediums.

"We are thrilled about this partnership and the benefits it will deliver to the healthcare community wanting to adopt digital signage and a broader multi-channel communication strategy," stated Stuart Armstrong President Americas for ComQi. "Aceso is leveraging technology that we typically deploy in retail environments to deliver an engaging branded experience within healthcare; they are truly innovating the space." 

Aceso's President and Co-Founder, Geoff Fiedler, commented: "Aceso is proud of this high-value relationship with ComQi; bringing cloud based media distribution and content management to our UpTech™ platform. Together, ComQi and Aceso are introducing the healthcare industry to cutting edge media technology. Our clients now have the ability to generate new revenue and reduce cost, two important benefits in a time of uncertain reimbursement. Our recent deployment at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, one of the top post-acute organizations in the country, has transformed the inpatient experience through digital media.

About ComQi

ComQi is a global leader providing a powerful multi-channel message management platform that controls a network's content and infrastructure, closing the loop between digital signage, mobile, web and social media within a venue. ComQi has won numerous awards including the Digi Award and Shopper Innovation Award for the Best Digital Signage Product in 2013. It has been voted as the number one global digital signage provider for three years in a row by DailyDOOH and a Tier One player by Frost & Sullivan for the second year in a row.

ComQi's mission is to deliver an end-to-end solution that is tailored to engage consumers by optimizing communications and marketing strategies that provide the best ROI. By putting the consumer at the center of the experience, ComQi enables Connected Experiences through a single platform that offers media distribution, network and content management, interactive experiences and impact measurement. ComQi offers all these solutions directly or by partnering with systems' integrators, distributors and marketing agencies.

ComQi's hundreds of customers include leading brands around the world, such as Care Media, Six Flags (in the US), McDonald's and The Premier League (in the UK), CinemaxX (in Germany), Toys 'R' Us (in China) and Carrefour and Credit Lyonnais (in France). 

With over 12 years of expertise and an installed base of more than 400,000 displays worldwide, ComQi is a global company headquartered in New York with offices in Jerusalem, Toronto, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

See our website at www.comqi.com.

About Aceso

Aceso, (Uh-kesso) provides the nation's premier interactive patient care and digital media solutions. UpCare™ delivers patient-specific educational content, top entertainment and bedside assistance to enhance recovery, ease staff workload, improve outcomes and better coordinate education and patient care. Hospital Television Network, ("HTV"), Aceso's digital network of screens, enables patients and visitors to experience personally relevant and timely content in common, waiting and treatment areas. Aceso's engaging and efficient digital display solutions communicate a caring experience across the entire hospital enterprise to bring patients, visitors and staff closer together. Our approach to care connects the public with the provider and creates awareness while building confidence in the provider's expertise and specialties.

Established in 2009 and headquartered in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Aceso advances patient care for some of the nation's leading hospital networks, from the bedside up. Please visit www.aceso.com for more information and follow Aceso on Twitter - @Aceso UpCare.

For further information about Aceso please contact:

Brian Stone                                                               
Vice President of Media Services
Email 
www.aceso.com
40 Warren Street
Charlestown, MA  02129
Phone: +1 617-947-7022

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SOURCE Aceso; ComQi