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Launch of two new Microsoft solutions boosts SYMX healthcare offering

MIAMI, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- SYMX Technologies, an international provider of equipment life cycle management services for healthcare facilities, is announcing a new real-time business process solution to help hospitals leverage RFID data. This development makes SYMX one of the first U.S. healthcare companies to build on top of Microsoft Corp.'s newly launched BizTalk Server 2006 R2.

SYMX employs Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 to develop an automated and adaptive inventory visibility and managed workflow solution designed to dramatically improve patient safety. Hospitals can utilize the SYMX ATLAS (Asset Tracking Location Accountability System) to enable RFID data access, management and integration. The SYMX ATLAS uses active RFID to deliver real-time location and process automation for healthcare organizations and its patients, clinicians, staff and equipment. In employing Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, ATLAS delivers the "Connected Enterprise", so customers can connect real-time business processes and command intelligent RFID data, giving hospitals a competitive business advantage in terms of asset tracking, equipment management, patient safety and increasingly effective staff performance.

"Incorporating the Microsoft solution into our SYMX ATLAS will introduce the next generation in RFID," says Tim Callahan, president of SYMX. "It will provide our healthcare customers the required flexibility and management tools to support efforts in the automation of manual processes, productivity and clinician satisfaction as well as supporting efforts to enhance patient safety."

"SYMX has developed a comprehensive solution to support the diverse demands of the healthcare industry," said Anush Kumar, senior product manager, Microsoft BizTalk RFID. "With SYMX ATLAS on top of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, customers will have the latest in technology for rules management
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