Dalcon Receives Unified Communications Magazine’s 2008 Product of the Year Award

DCM-Healthcare Edition Recognized for Outstanding Innovation

NASHVILLE, TN - Dalcon Communication Systems, Inc., announced today that Unified Communications magazine has named the Dalcon Communications Manager-Health Care Edition as a recipient of its 2008 Product of the Year Award.

“‘Dalcon has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. Unified Communications is pleased to grant a 2008 Product of the Year Award to their DCM-Healthcare Edition,’ said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of Unified Communications magazine. ‘We’re proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Dalcon in the future.’” Product of the Year winners will be published in the March/April, 2009 issue of Unified Communications magazine, www.uc-mag.com.

“We’re pleased to be honored by this leading publication in the communications industry. We have recognized the need for fully-integrated communications within hospitals and our DCM-Healthcare Edition represents the state-of-the-art in this regard,” said David Condra, Dalcon’s CEO.

Following on the success of its award-winning product, DCM 2.0, Dalcon has now specially tailored the product for the needs of hospitals, and has integrated it with other communication products commonly found in healthcare. Now hospitals can take full advantage of VoIP through the use of a fully-integrated, open-standards-based, communications system.

Utilizing software running on standard PC servers, and standard IP and analog phones, the powerful DCM 2.0 system not only supports functions such as Direct Inward Dial Numbers, Interactive Voice Response, and find-me/follow me to cell phones, it also supports powerful, integrated functions including:

• Electronic Faxing-eliminate the phone lines, paper, and toner of fax machines while automatically producing electronic documents for electronic medical records systems.
• Nurse WiFi-these critically important staff members and others can now be reached as easily as if they were sitting at their personal extension phone.
• Patient Nurse Call Integration-Existing nurse call systems can now be integrated with hospital fixed and wireless phone systems to better respond to patient calls.
• Staff Physician communications-Doctors can now communicate.simply by being a part of the hospital system so that, whether they are in their offices or doing rounds, they can reach key nurses and staff, and be reached immediately if needed.

The DCM Healthcare edition was first installed in Trinity Hospital in Erin, Tennessee. “This is a whole new mindset, like changing from an old IBM mainframe to laptops,” says Trinity Hospital’s CEO, Yvette Gillespie. “You don’t realize what you haven’t had until you finally get it! Now that we’re using Dalcon, I wish we could have done this years ago.”

About Unified Communications magazine

Launched in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications (UC) solutions.  Every issue of Unified Communications magazine features a comprehensive news section; case studies of successful deployments and lessons learned; interviews with leading hardware and software companies; and an “industry” section, featuring analysis of important mergers and acquisition, partnerships and a Wall Street perspective on the unified communications market. Unified Communications has a readership of 100,000.  For more information, please visit www.uc-mag.com.

About Dalcon Communication Systems, Inc.

Founded in 1979, Dalcon Communication Systems, Inc. has developed software and IT solutions for businesses nationwide. Dalcon, based in Nashville, Tennessee, bridges the latest in voice technology and data functionality into one flexible and integrated system. Dalcon’s premiere offering is a digital communications manager specially designed for small to medium-sized businesses to benefit from the advantages offered by open source and industry-standard VoIP products. Its DCM 2.0 has won numerous industry awards, including the prestigious Internet Telephony Product of the year award for 2007 and 2008. Dalcon simplifies business communications needs. For more information, please visit www.dalcon.com or call (615) 843-9000.

Media Inquiries
John Menees
615.577.9017
jmenees@dalcon.com

2009 AACCN National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition in New Orleans

Dalcon was present at this year’s American Association of Critical-Care Nurses NTI expo.  The 2009 expo was held in New Orleans May 16-21.  With around 6000 nurses and more than 400 exhibitors attending, the 2009 NTI expo was a great opportunity for both critical care nurses-and healthcare centered companies.

The Dalcon healthcare team networked with nurses and created relationships with many hospitals from all over the country.  According to John Menees, Director of Business Development, “It was exciting to see the high level of interest that critical care units of all sizes found in Dalcon’s integrated solutions.  We are especially excited to be returning [to NTI] in 2010.”