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Bring Your Laptop: Innovative Hospitals Offer Amenities Enabling Patients and Visitors to Stay Connected to Their Regular Daily Lives.


SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay.  -- Many cutting-edge hospital rooms are equipped with interactive patient communication and entertainment technology, greatly transforming the typical hospital experience. Patient satisfaction and an environment that encourages healing have become essential elements in most hospital administrators' core vision. Scores of patient rooms are equipped with in-room media centers providing key hospital information, health education videos, satisfaction surveys, room service dining menus, and digital entertainment and communication options designed to enhance the patient experience. In keeping with their updated vision, hospitals are also encouraging visitors to stay longer and furnishing patient rooms for family members' comfort. And now, innovative hospitals are adding to the list of visitor amenities by providing high-speed Internet See broadband.  connection ports.

San Diego-based Skylight skylight

Roof opening covered with translucent or transparent glass or plastic designed to admit daylight. Skylights have found wide application admitting steady, even light in industrial, commercial, and residential buildings, especially those with a northern orientation.
(SM) Healthcare Systems, a leader in in-room communication technology, offers hospitals the Skylight ACCESS(SM) Interactive Patient System (formerly called GetWellTV), transforming patient rooms with multi-media centers, personalizing the hospital stay and making patients more comfortable. Now, through Skylight(SM) Healthcare's relationship with IP3 Networks, hospitals can also choose to provide an additional, separate Family Port for Internet connection of lap-top computers in patient rooms.

By leveraging Skylight(SM) Healthcare's installation process, hospitals can take advantage of affordable, independent high-speed Internet ports in patient rooms and other waiting or common areas. Such amenities enable patients and visitors to stay connected to their regular daily lives, decreasing the feeling of isolation and lack of control frequently experienced during a typical hospital stay. And the application allows for a custom hospital-created Welcome Page, furthering reinforcement of their brand and commitment to patient satisfaction. The option to provide complimentary access or pay-per-use billing is at the hospital's discretion.

"These vibrant applications by Skylight(SM) Healthcare Systems and IP3 Networks provide an enhanced experience for all patients and visitors," said Dave Schofield, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Skylight(SM) Healthcare Systems. "Many hospitals believe this will ultimately lead to better medical outcomes, new levels of customer satisfaction and maximize bottom-line profits."

The Family Port is deployed using IP3 Networks' NetAccess(TM) broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband.  gateway that provides user-friendly, web-based authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC.

(2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network.
 for secure access. With Skylight Healthcare and IP3 Networks, hospital patients and visitors are provided easy, fast, secure and reliable access to the Internet, email and corporate virtual private networks (VPNs) with zero end-user configuration. Backed by a high-speed, broadband connection See broadband and wireless broadband.  to the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises  system handles multiple simultaneous users, and most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent"
above all, most especially
, remains completely independent of the hospital's network.

"Partnering with a leader such as Skylight(SM) Healthcare Systems perfectly complements our strategic mission as we continue to create reliable, secure and easy-to-support products," said Steve Rizzone, CEO, IP3 Networks. "Our products work seamlessly with Skylight's ACCESS(SM) system and we are confident that our on-demand broadband access will become an industry standard."

About Skylight(SM) Healthcare Systems, Inc.

Skylight Healthcare Systems is the fastest growing interactive patient system provider in the nation. The company focuses on products and services that create operational efficiencies and improve patient satisfaction and productivity. Skylight's ACCESS(SM) Interactive Patient System (formerly called GetWellTV) is an interactive patient room communication, education and entertainment network designed to provide an efficient platform for communication hospital information, automating guest service requests, and recreating the comforts of home with hotel-like amenities. The ACCESS(SM) system's administrative hospital services include health education on demand; real-time patient survey applications; interactive, two-way communications; dietary menu services and more. State-of-the-art digital entertainment and communication services include feature film rentals, premium cable TV, music, high-speed Internet, e-mail access and interactive games. For more information about Skylight Healthcare Systems, please visit: www.skylight.com.

About IP3 Networks, Inc.

IP3 Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of full-featured subscriber management products for wireless and wireline networks. IP3's NetAccess(TM) family of access control and billing gateways provides highly customizable provisioning, authentication and network security services Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. NSS provides a complete open-source implementation of crypto libraries supporting SSL and S/MIME.  that enable hospitality properties, public venues, service providers and enterprises to manage and control both public and private broadband services. Based in San Diego, with sales and technical support offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe and Asia Pacific, IP3 is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market
close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation
, with venture funding from Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme.  and Garage Technology Ventures. For more information, visit www.ip3.com.

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