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Healthcare Goes High-Speed With Cingular Medical Professionals Now Have Access to Patient and Clinical Information, ePrescription Capabilities via Fastest National Wireless Data Network in U.S. DALLAS, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition -- Healthcare professionals for the first time now have high-speed, nationwide access to critical information with today's introduction of a broad suite of solutions powered by Cingular Wireless' EDGE service, the fastest national wireless data network in the U.S. Cingular, palmOne Inc., and leading mobile healthcare solution providers Epocrates(R) Inc., HealthRamp, Inc. and PatientKeeper(R) will unveil the solutions at the HIMSS show in Dallas. Cingular will demonstrate the solutions at HIMSS in SBC Communications Inc. booth #6040. "In today's 24 X 7 world, medical professionals need fast access to critical patient and clinical information as well as the ability to write prescriptions using full-featured, easy-to-use devices even when they are beyond the four walls of the hospital or office," said Abhi Ingle, executive director, business solutions, for Cingular Wireless. "Cingular's alliances with the healthcare industry's leading mobile solutions providers give clinicians those capabilities through a powerful set of high-speed wireless tools designed to save them time and further enhance patient care." Cingular is forming a comprehensive framework of wireless solutions certified on the GPRS/EDGE network allowing healthcare providers to efficiently and cost-effectively deploy a mobile electronic medical record. Healthcare solutions certified on the Cingular Wireless EDGE network include: - PatientKeeper: the PatientKeeper Platform(TM) supports a broad portfolio of applications providing wireless access to patient and clinical information, including PatientKeeper Clinical Results(TM), PatientKeeper Charge Capture(TM), PatientKeeper Mobile Dictation(TM), PatientKeeper ePrescription(TM) (powered by DrFirst), and PatientKeeper Reference Library(TM). - Epocrates: the Epocrates(R) Essentials mobile clinical reference suite, which works seamlessly with PatientKeeper, allows clinicians to receive regular updates of vital drug, disease and diagnostics information on their wireless handhelds. Cingular Wireless is the first national wireless provider to certify Epocrates Essentials for wireless wide area network use. - HealthRamp: CarePoint provides HIPAA-compliant eprescribing from a physician's wireless handheld, including prescription drug interaction information, drug reference guide, patient medication history, and formulary referencing. CarePoint is integrated with most popular practice management systems. All three solution platforms can be accessed via the recently introduced palmOne Treo(TM) 650. The Treo 650 combines a compact, full-featured mobile phone with email, messaging, and web access capabilities, as well as a Palm OS(R) organizer and digital camera, letting users organize and simplify their business and personal lives all in one device. The newest member of the Treo family builds on the award-winning design of the popular Treo 600 -- a favorite of the healthcare industry -- with new and improved features, including the ability to access data at faster speeds using EDGE; a high- resolution screen; expanded multimedia capabilities, such as an MP3 player and video capture and playback; removable battery; non-volatile memory; and Bluetooth(R) wireless technology. Equipped with EDGE technology, the Treo 650 can access accelerated data speeds averaging up to 135 kilobits per second (kbps), which is nearly three times the speed of a conventional wired dial-up connection. Cingular's EDGE network is available in more than 8,500 cities and towns and along 30,000 miles of highways. Cingular is also building a powerful certified portfolio of healthcare solutions for EDGE-enabled Pocket PC handhelds to be released later this year. Cingular Wireless serves 95 of the Fortune 100 companies, and counts more than 80% of the Fortune 500 and over 1,200 federal, state and local government agencies as customers. Cingular serves the wireless data needs of healthcare providers and payers, academic medical centers and ambulance service providers nationwide. Further information about Cingular Wireless-powered healthcare solutions can be found at http://www.cingular.com/healthcare . About Cingular Wireless Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving more than 49 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture between SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS), has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation -- the ALLOVER(sm) network -- and the largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(sm), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are available at < http://www.cingular.com/ > . Get Cingular Wireless press releases e-mailed to you automatically. Sign up at < http://www.cingular.com/newsroom >. palmOne and Treo are among the trademarks or registered trademarks owned by or licensed to palmOne, Inc. or its subsidiaries. DATASOURCE: Cingular Wireless CONTACT: John Kampfe of Cingular Wireless, office, +1-908-696-4536, or wireless, +1-908-432-3473 Web site: http://www.cingular.com/ http://www.cingular.com/healthcare http://www.cingular.com/newsroom

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