Contact Information: Contact: Jane Bryant Spire Communications (703) 406-8626
Lyster Health Clinic to Deploy AtHoc's Network-Centric Mass Notification Supporting Clinic's Emergency Preparedness Plan for H1N1 Pandemic and Other Threats
AtHoc IWSAlerts to Enhance Force Protection and Provide Unified Emergency Notification Capability to Clinic Personnel
| Source: AtHoc
SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - November 13, 2009) - AtHoc, Inc., the pioneer and leader in
network-centric emergency notification systems,
today announced the Lyster Army Health Clinic will deploy the AtHoc
IWSAlerts™ third-generation mass emergency alerting system to help
protect staff and patients. Lyster Army Health Clinic is located at Fort
Rucker in Alabama. The clinic provides primary care and ancillary services
to a military population that consists of active duty service members,
their families, a large retiree population and their family members.
Lyster will rely on AtHoc IWSAlerts to notify personnel about threats faced
by most domestic military installations -- threats posed by weather or
man-made sources. However, as a medical organization, Lyster will leverage
network technology for the rapid delivery of alerts for clinic-related
operational communications. These can range from biological or chemical
contaminations; communication of epidemic or pandemic information; or a
staff recall with a large influx of patients due to a mass casualty
incident. In addition to outward bound notifications, Lyster will be able
to connect to external sources of alerts, such as the Centers for Disease
Control, to automate the dissemination of local or national CDC information
such as recent Swine Flu (H1N1) updates.
Maintaining the privacy of personnel information is a requirement of all
health care organizations. Using AtHoc IWSAlerts, Lyster clinic personal
information will be deployed behind the firewall and kept highly secure.
The deployment of AtHoc's IWSAlerts at Lyster represents another step in
the Department of Defense medical community's adaption of third-generation
mass
notification technology. Third-generation systems leverage existing IP
networks to (a) communicate rapidly to all IP connected devices; (b)
integrate and unify disparate existing mass notification capabilities; (c)
provide bi-directional communication allowing collection of feedback from
all personnel; and (d) achieve enterprise-level scalability and processes.
The result is the most effective enterprise-wide mass notification
capability with the best cost to benefit ratio.
"We look forward to deploying our award-winning mass alerting solution at
the Lyster Army Health Clinic. Along with Irwin Army Hospital at Fort
Riley, the deployment of AtHoc's IWSAlerts at Lyster Army Health Clinic
demonstrates the ability of our network-based mass notification system to
meet the unique requirements of large DoD health care organizations," said
Andy Anderson, Vice President of Defense Operations for AtHoc. "AtHoc
continues to be adopted by more and more DoD medical community
organizations, including the Navy's BUMED and Army and Air Force clinics
and hospitals."
About AtHoc
AtHoc is the pioneer and recognized leader in providing enterprise-class,
network-centric emergency notification systems to military, government and
commercial organizations. AtHoc's products are used for physical security,
force protection, personnel accountability, recall and regulatory
compliance. Millions of end users worldwide, in organizations such as the
U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
NASA, Microsoft, Boeing and PricewaterhouseCoopers rely on AtHoc's unified
management systems for their emergency alerting and critical communication
needs. AtHoc has partnered with market leaders including Microsoft, Cisco,
Dell, Harris, Siemens, MIR3, Avaya, Lockheed Martin and others to bring
these notification solutions to the public and commercial markets.
For more information on AtHoc, please visit http://www.athoc.com.