MIDAS+ BedReady(TM) Joins Suite of Hospital IT Services TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. has entered an exclusive agreement with New Age Systems, Inc. to offer hospitals and medical facilities the BedReady system, a web-based application to improve bed turnover, revenue, and patient satisfaction. Under the terms of the agreement, MIDAS+, a business unit of ACS, will be responsible for product management, marketing, sales, implementation, and support of the MIDAS+ BedReady system. "We look forward to providing our clients with this exciting new tool to address patient care and processing," says Jim DeWeese, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the ACS MIDAS+ business unit. "Integrating the BedReady solution with the MIDAS+ Care Management system will not only leverage an existing interface, it will provide significant efficiencies and effectiveness for more than 750 of our hospital clients." MIDAS+ BedReady adds real-time capacity management and patient processing functionality to the company's suite of healthcare solutions. By streamlining communications and automating workflow, BedReady improves patient movement throughout the healthcare facility. Intelligent productivity tools integrate bed management, environmental services, and transport modules to enhance collaboration and accountability among key healthcare personnel. Additionally, its comprehensive reporting capabilities facilitate continuous assessment and improve patient flow and management, which is vital to the sustainable success of the healthcare facility. Avery Cloud, Chief Information Officer of New Hanover Health Network in Wilmington, North Carolina, advocates the benefits of the MIDAS+ BedReady solution, especially when integrating BedReady with MIDAS+ Care Management. "MIDAS+ BedReady provides a complete suite of capacity management tools that result in better service to patients and physicians," Cloud said. "The integration of MIDAS+ BedReady and MIDAS+ Care Management gives us an end-to-end patient throughput solution that increases patient satisfaction and the financial performance of the organization." ACS, a global FORTUNE 500 company with 62,000 people supporting client operations reaching more than 100 countries, provides business process outsourcing and information technology solutions to world-class commercial and government clients. The company's Class A common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ACS." ACS makes technology work. Visit ACS on the Internet at http://www.acs-inc.com/. About New Age Systems, Inc. New Age is a privately held corporation, based in Evansville, Indiana. New Age has been serving healthcare clients in the United States and Canada since 1986, and is focused on developing software solutions that access, integrate and leverage information to help hospitals improve communication, patient safety and healthcare processes. Solutions include BedReady, Clinical Window, PDA, Physician Charge Capture, Patient Safety Window, Business Process Window, Uptime Window, Systems Access Manager, and KineXions interface engine. For more information, visit the New Age Systems website, http://www.newagesystemsinc.com/, or call 812-867-2584. DATASOURCE: Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. CONTACT: Cindy Beach, Manager, Corporate Communications of Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., +1-517-381-3494, Web site: http://www.acs-inc.com/ http://www.newagesystemsinc.com/

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