EXTENSION, INC. Wins Cisco Collaboration Excellence Partner of the Year for U.S. and Canada at 2010 Cisco Partner Summit
FORT WAYNE, IN – May 10, 2010 - EXTENSION, INC. announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit regional award for Cisco Collaboration Excellence Partner of the Year for U.S. and Canada. Cisco unveiled the winners April 28 at its annual channel partner conference in San Francisco.
“It is an honor to present EXTENSION, INC. as a Cisco Partner Summit regional award winner,” said Wendy Bahr, senior vice president, U.S. and Canada channels at Cisco. “The Cisco Collaboration Excellence Partner of the Year for US/Canada recognizes EXTENSION, INC.’s performance and achievements as a Cisco developer partner in the U.S. in 2009.”
Todd Plesko, CEO of EXTENSION, INC. said, “Earning this award is very exciting because we have worked for years developing solutions that add clinical relevance to Cisco’s UC platform. With our context-aware, interactive workflow solutions, large and small hospitals and ambulatory practices can improve communication, workflows and user satisfaction. Our Digital Physicians Office solution with Cisco and Allscripts, for example, provides hospital-grade, integrated workflow solutions to various types of physician’s groups and complements our enterprise solutions for Contact Center, RTLS/RFID, and in-patient alerting. Mr. Plesko added, “We add considerable value to the Cisco channel and their core offering of Cisco UC. Our Channel Account Executives are experienced healthcare account professionals who help joint resellers introduce innovative EMR, Cisco UC and EXTENSION workflow solutions into our healthcare community.”
Cisco Partner Summit awards are presented at three levels: regional, theater and global. Cisco Partner Summit U.S. and Canada regional awards reflect a partner’s performance in a given geographic region of the United States or Canada.
About EXTENSION, INC.
EXTENSION, INC. is based in Fort Wayne, IN and is the developer of the EXTENSION® Solution Suite (ESS). The EXTENSION Solution Suite of software includes HealthID™ and expands Cisco Unified Communications into a clinical workflow tool automating notifications using text messages, phone calls, and emails, as well as turning Cisco’s award-winning IP Phones into user interfaces for clinical, administrative, and revenue cycle data. The result of employing Cisco Unified Communications and EXTENSION includes increased physician, management, and patient satisfaction, reduced cost and errors, immediate ROI, and increased revenues. EXTENSION tightly integrates any HL7-based or web services-based medical application with Cisco Advanced Unified Communications, using standards-based protocols. The EXTENSION HealthID smart card solution for healthcare provides encryption and identity management, integration to personal health records, and workflow improvements for patients, hospitals, and clinics. For more on EXTENSION visit www.opentheredbox.com.
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