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Paris, November 4, 2009 — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and
NYSE: ALU) today announced that the Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager, a secure
and reliable remote patient monitoring solution, has been cleared by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing in the United States.
The Alcatel-Lucent
TeleHealth Manager supports remote patient monitoring with an easily
deployable solution for standard mobile phones from leading vendors. It allows
patients to provide health data using devices they’re already familiar with
(e.g., mobile phones and medical devices such as blood glucose meters) in a
secure manner, without the expense, time and potential exposure to other
diseases that unnecessary clinical visits might entail. In addition to
monitoring, TeleHealth Manager provides reminders, alerts and online reports to
help patients and their healthcare professionals better understand and manage
their conditions.
Faced with challenges such as an aging population and rising healthcare
costs, hospitals and physicians are increasingly turning to innovative
communications technologies such as remote patient monitoring to supplement
face-to-face care. Especially for patients with chronic diseases such as
diabetes and hypertension, remote patient monitoring offers an efficient and
accurate way for care providers to regularly gather potentially lifesaving
data. While cost effective for health care systems and home care agencies,
remote monitoring also offers convenience, cost savings and empowerment to
patients -- and enables more informed treatment decisions that can result in
improved outcomes.
“The Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager supports our focus to enable
patient-centric healthcare through technology,” said Tom Burns, head of
Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise and verticals business. “With the FDA clearance to
market this cutting-edge solution in the United States, clinicians and patients
will be able to better work together to monitor and manage certain chronic
diseases.”
With the TeleHealth Manager solution, Alcatel-Lucent has taken advantage of
its strong relationships with telecom service providers and healthcare
organizations, and its global expertise in fixed and mobile telephony.The
Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager requires minimal capital investment to deploy
and can be hosted by a telecom service provider, a healthcare organization or
offered as a managed service by Alcatel-Lucent.
Additional information about Alcatel-Lucent
healthcare solutions is available online.
About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted partner of
service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions
to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A leader
in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies,
applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical
and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation
powerhouses in the communications industry. With operations in more than 130
countries and the most experienced global services organization in the
industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent
achieved revenues of Euro 16.98 billion in 2008 and is incorporated in France,
with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit
Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com
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