Northwestern Memorial Hospital Wins 2006 Mobile Impact™ Award

Vienna, Va.—November 7, 2006—MobileAccess Networks, an enterprise wireless innovator, today announced that Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago is the recipient of the 2006 Mobile Impact™ Award in the Mobile Office category. The Mobile Impact Awards are presented by the Mobile Enterprise Alliance (MEA), a global advocacy group promoting the business benefits of workforce mobility to enterprise end users and decision makers. The prestigious awards honor leading enterprises for successful and innovative deployments of mobile enterprise solutions that successfully balance technology investments with business objectives. The six winners were announced at the Yankee Group Mobilizing the Enterprise Summit in Boston.

As one of the country's premier academic medical centers, Northwestern Memorial is constantly looking to embrace technology that will help them deliver high-value care for their patients. Part of this effort involves the adoption of new wireless technologies, which are becoming an increasingly fundamental part of facilitating healthcare decision making, quality care and patient safety. Critical to this adoption was the proper infrastructure to carry and manage a broad array of wireless services, applications and devices.

After a thorough evaluation, Northwestern Memorial deployed the MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network to provide comprehensive wireless connectivity throughout its Chicago campus and meet the challenges of supporting the mobility of their caregivers. With MobileAccess' award-winning solution, Northwestern Memorial is able to provide a common network that extends across multiple campus buildings and supports all wireless service requirements––including computerized physician order entry (CPOE), public cellular services, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and nurse-call systems.

Leveraging the MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network, caregivers are able to quickly and securely get the information they need from multiple points throughout the campus and the hospital is able to ensure that next-generation services can be added without disruptions or costly upgrades. The result for Northwestern Memorial is improved healthcare decision making, quality care and patient safety, and the confidence of knowing that their network can handle a diverse array or current and emerging wireless applications and devices within the complex medical environment.

"Northwestern Memorial Hospital demonstrates ‘state of the art' for enterprise mobility in 2006 with an innovative mobile deployment that balances technology investments with business objectives," stated Daniel Taylor, managing director, MEA.

"By bringing the power of seamless mobile computing to every corner of the hospital and everyone in it, Northwestern Memorial has dramatically improved communication, connectivity and productivity while delivering financial and operational cost savings," said Tim Zoph, vice president of information systems and chief information officer for Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "The result is a direct, positive impact on patient care that ensures Northwestern Memorial will continue to be on the leading edge of healthcare innovation."

"We are excited to be helping Northwestern Memorial pave the way for next-generation wireless healthcare," said Cathy Zatloukal, president and CEO of MobileAccess. "Northwestern Memorial is defining a new, innovative business model for healthcare organizations by ensuring reliable communications across the entire hospital campus. The result is a positive and direct affect on the day-to-day experience of patients, caregivers and administrators."

About the Awards

Mobile Impact Award nominations were submitted from around the world as case studies in seven categories. The entries were evaluated by an independent group of judges including leading editors and analysts Kara Gattine, managing editor of TechTarget's SearchNetworking and SearchMobileComputing, Eugene Signorini of Yankee Group, Kitty Weldon of Current Analysis and Cliff Raskind of Strategy Analytics.

Awards were also made in the following categories: Field Service and Support, Sales Force Enablement, Mobile Office Solution, Extended Enterprise Computing and Connectivity, Mobile Security and Mobile Management.

More information about the Mobile Impact Awards program and the wining case studies may be found at www.mobileenterprise.org/awards.

About the Mobile Enterprise Alliance (MEA)

The Mobile Enterprise Alliance (MEA) is a nonprofit U.S. 501(c)(6) membership organization whose mission is to facilitate and encourage enterprise adoption of mobile workforce technologies, services and solutions. Filling the role of marketplace educator, the MEA publishes case studies, white papers, a monthly eNewsletter, the Mobile Enterprise Weblog, and the Mobility Water Cooler. In its third year, the MEA Mobile Impact™ Awards program collects, recognizes and publishes case studies of leading corporate mobility deployments. The MEA currently represents more than 1,500 members in 37 countries and is funded exclusively through dues from participating vendors, service providers and systems integrators. More information can be obtained at www.mobileenterprise.org.

About Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Northwestern Memorial Hospital is one of the country's premier academic medical centers and is the primary teaching hospital of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern Memorial and its Prentice Women's Hospital and Stone Institute of Psychiatry have 744 beds and more than 1,400 affiliated physicians and 5,000 employees. Providing state-of-the-art care, Northwestern Memorial is recognized for its outstanding clinical and surgical advancements in such areas as cardiothoracic and vascular care, gastroenterology, neurology and neurosurgery, oncology, organ and bone marrow transplantation and women's health.

Northwestern Memorial was the sole recipient of the prestigious 2005 National Quality Health Care Award and eight of its medical specialties are listed in this year's U.S. News & World Report's issue of "America's Best Hospitals." The hospital also has been cited as one of the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" by Working Mother magazine six consecutive years and has been chosen by Chicago-area consumers for more than a decade as their "most preferred hospital" in National Research Corporation's annual survey.

About MobileAccess Networks

MobileAccess Networks is an enterprise wireless innovator that provides a universal platform for connecting the people and applications that drive business. The MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network is the key to widespread wireless connectivity in hospitals, office buildings, public venues and other large-scale facilities. The company's intelligent, in-building infrastructure delivers business-quality performance, scalability, security and signal reliability to more than 1000 customers, including Fortune 1000 companies such as Lehman Brothers and Hearst Corporation, leading healthcare facilities such as Northwestern Memorial and Clarian Health, as well as many public sector customers such as Aladdin Resort and Casino, ALLTEL Stadium, American University, and the Oakland International Airport. For more information, visit www.mobileaccess.com.