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To: JakeStraw who wrote (75776)	12/1/1999 8:36:00 AM
From: kfdkfd	Respond to of 90042

CS news One of Japan's 'Top Three' Hospitals Improves Patient Treatment Time With Cabletron Gigabit Solution ROCHESTER, N.H. and KUMAMOTO CITY, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 1999-- Cabletron Solution Enables Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital to Reliably And Rapidly Transmit Critical Patient Information Hospital-Wide Cabletron Systems (NYSE:CS - news) today announced that Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, which is located in Kumamoto City and is rated one of Japan's ``top three hospitals' by local IT business magazine, Nikkei, has selected a Cabletron Gigabit Ethernet solution to dramatically reduce the average patient treatment time from 20 days to approximately 14 days. Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital cares for patients in a Japanese region with a population of 13 million people and deploys Cabletron's leading communications solution for rapid distribution of time-critical patient information. The solution uses Cabletron's leading SmartSwitch Router (SSR) technology, which manages and transmits high-volume data files such as x-rays, scans, images and patient records. Utilizing their new network infrastructure, Saiseikai automates each component of their operation, including the hospital's treatment accounting system, pre-op and medical examination systems, through to rehabilitation, reservation and patient check in and out coordination. ``In order for us to better serve the needs of our patients, it was critical to integrate our medical systems and streamline our business processes. Cabletron's solution has been so powerful it has allowed us to reduce our average patient treatment days from over 20 days to just 14 days,' explained Yoshihiro Masaki, secretary general, Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital. ``A vital component of this, Cabletron's SSR, when compared to its competition, proved faster, superior and more cost-effective.' Due to the mission-critical nature of a hospital environment, the solution had to provide a high-level of resiliency - a feature inherent within the SSR and one that allows Saiseikai to support critical patients and emergency-care. These features will become even more significant once the hospital adopts more telemedicine procedures. Additionally, Cabletron's SSR Layer -3/4 capabilities enables the hospital to improve the Quality of Service (QoS) functionality in its network. This enables the hospital to more effectively and smoothly manage information traveling through the network. By incorporating state-of-the-art communications technologies in its network, Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital is ready for digital convergence of data, voice and video. ``Thanks to our new state-of-art Gigabit network, we now have the ability to deploy telemedicine activities in the future. These will include voice and videoconferencing, remote patient monitoring and remote access to specialist staff - the opportunities are endless and will further enable us to improve the overall patient experience.' concluded Masaki. Ray Wright, Cabletron's director of convergence marketing stated, ``Fast, reliable and secure communications will allow patients to access medical amenities and skilled professionals hundreds or thousands of miles away, and will further enable medical professionals to provide their skills to a much wider public. Cabletron has been providing high performance communications solutions to medical treatment, training and educational establishments for several years. Now customers are adding new-age converged applications such as telemedicine, using our inherent QoS capabilities for support of real-time traffic such as voice and video.'