Next Intelligence Health Integrates RTLS Technology from CenTrak, Inc.

WILMINGTON, Del. and NEWTOWN, Pa., June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Next Intelligence Corporation (NiQ Health), the leader in message-based nurse call systems, today announced a partnership with CenTrak, Inc., makers of the CenTrak™ Real Time Location System (RTLS). The partnership enables NiQ's distributors worldwide to have access to a fully supported and qualified RTLS add-on to NiQ Health's CarePlus™ care management information system.

"CenTrak is a trusted provider of the most accurate and highest performance real-time location system technology," said Chris Clabaugh, Vice President of Business Development, NiQ Health. "Following our strategy of 'Innovation at the Edges', this combination of CarePlus™ advanced message and workflow nurse call systems with CenTrak's market leading RTLS technology should prove extremely attractive to our global distributors serving acute care and aged care facilities of all sizes."

CenTrak is the leading provider of accurate, scalable, and cost-effective tracking solutions for healthcare facilities. The patented CenTrak™ Real Time Location System (RTLS) infrastructure uniquely combines Gen2IR and active RFID technologies to deliver certainty-based or error free data, a requirement for workflow and other key healthcare tracking applications. As the only predominantly battery-powered RTLS network, CenTrak™ offers an ease of installation and cost effectiveness previously unattainable.

"We're very pleased about our new partnership with NiQ," said Mark Nowakowski, Vice President of Sales, CenTrak. "The NiQ/CenTrak combination will deliver new levels of efficiency and value to NiQ customers."

CarePlus™ is "middleware-in-a-box" for the nurse call market, integrating RTLS, paging, wireless and VoIP telephony, information displays, email devices, tablets, patient entertainment terminals, duress systems, legacy patient call buttons, and building management systems. CarePlus combines disparate systems into a "Ward Status" interface available on any secure hospital web browser.

About NiQ Health: NiQ is a US-based corporation with offices in the USA, UK and Australia. CarePlus™ has been successfully installed in over 200 implementations, and is actively recruiting distributors and reselling partners globally. More information can be found at partners.niq-health.com

About CenTrak, Inc.

CenTrak is the leading provider of accurate, scalable, and cost-effective tracking solutions for healthcare facilities. The company has patented an Active-RFID/Gen2IR hybrid technology used to track people and assets in real-time with 100% room/bed-level accuracy. The CenTrak RTLS is currently operating in hundreds of world-class healthcare sites spanning over three continents.

Contacts:

Chris Clabaugh, Vice President Business Development, NIQ Health
(302) 295-4845
[email protected]

Mark Nowakowski, Vice President Sales, CenTrak
[email protected]

SOURCE Next Intelligence Corporation