Wyse and Flo Healthcare Team to Deliver Mobile Thin Solutions to Healthcare Organizations

Thin-Client Based Mobile Healthcare Solutions Provide Value, Reliability, and Accessibility to Healthcare Clinicians and IT Staff

San Jose, CA – 2004/10/04 - Wyse Technology, the domain experts in server-centric computing (SCC) and Flo Healthcare, the leading provider of integrated mobile clinical workstations for healthcare, announced today they have formed a partnership to offer an advanced thin-client based mobile workstation to healthcare organizations. The two companies' joint solution will enable nurses, doctors and clinical informatics professionals to wirelessly access real-time patient data in a convenient, secure, and cost-effective mobile cart utilizing Wyse thin client technology.

Flo™ mobile carts powered by Wyse® Winterm™ thin clients empower healthcare professionals to access electronic medical records (EMR) from any wireless-enabled location within the healthcare facility. The integrated solution offers improved security, lower cost to own and operate, improved reliability, and simpler maintenance and upgrades. Other key benefits are a reduction in power consumption through an increased battery run time, and enhanced availability for improved connections at the point of care.

"Our partnership with Wyse Technology is truly a win-win not only for our companies, but more importantly for healthcare providers," added Tom Denmark, President & CEO of Flo Healthcare. "With our integrated solution, medical facilities will improve the delivery and quality of patient care while realizing tremendous gains in cost savings, productivity and patient satisfaction."

The Flo mobile workstation with integrated Wyse thin clients can add value in nearly all locations within healthcare facilities and hospitals, from patient rooms to the emergency room. Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH), a leading healthcare organization based in Evanston, Illinois, has implemented mobile workstations to facilitate information access at its three hospitals. ENH ranks as one of the most wired hospital systems in the nation, with 100 percent of its physicians entering orders electronically. "We have found the thin-client based mobile carts to be more secure, cost effective, and manageable than PC-based options we have explored," said Tom Smith, CIO at ENH. "The bottom line is better patient information and decision making capabilities at the bedside."

The inherent risks that locally stored data creates in a typical PC environment reinforce the need for secure, server-centric thin client technology. In addition, hundreds of unreliable, un-secure PCs typically located throughout healthcare centers create a management nightmare for the often limited IT staffs that healthcare organizations employ. The Flo mobile workstation with an integrated Wyse Winterm thin client delivers the value of server-centric computing in the healthcare environment to eliminate the security and management shortcomings of a mobile PC environment.

In addition, the integrated mobile workstation offers one of the most streamlined and ergonomically appealing designs in the industry, making it easy for clinicians to use and maintain. Since the Flo mobile workstation was designed for use in hospitals, it has features and options that clinical users need to stay connected today and in the future.

The Flo mobile workstation with integrated Wyse technology is available immediately through Wyse Technology and its distributors.

关于Wyse Technology

WYSE创建于美国硅谷，是全球最知名的智能网络计算解决方案供应商之一。连续8年蝉联全球智能网络应用终端市场占有率第一，占全球市场份额的38％。WYSE提供的硬件、软件和服务为用户提供了可中央控制的系统来协调运算资源、应用软件资源、储存资源以提高性能，在确保系统安全、可靠、灵活的同时，降低了总体拥有成本，并且将IT部门从不必要的支持和维护工作中解放出来，大大提高了生产力。多年来，WYSE深受全球众多知名商业及公共机构的信赖，主要应用智能网络应用终端的产业包括金融、电信、广播传媒、零售、运输、政府、医疗、国防、旅游、能源、教育等行业，WYSE的客户主要是行业领先的全球化公司，财富全球排名前100名中有超过四成已经成为WYSE的客户。

从2005年初起，WYSE开始大规模发展针对新一代网络计算终端的软件和系统开发。并在中国和印度大力投资技术研究与开发中心，加速新产品开发和推出结合本地客户要求的客户化解决方案。

WYSE的全球总部位于美国硅谷，分支机构遍布世界各地。亚太区总部设在中国北京海淀区融科资讯中心大厦，下辖六个分公司，分别位于中国台湾、日本东京、韩国首尔、印度班加罗尔、澳大利亚悉尼和新加坡。