Mobile technology helps hospitals combat nursing shortage.

For Immediate Release:

Mobile technology helps hospitals combat nursing shortage.

Hospitals see dramatic reduction in on hand inventory costs and
achieve significant workflow efficiencies.

West Lebanon, NH, July 2nd, 2003 – The nationwide shortage of nurses
has affected most of the healthcare institutions. As healthcare
institutions scramble to address this situation, some hospitals are
using emerging technology to help ease the situation. Numbers Only,
Inc. a leading wireless applications company based in North Brunswick,
NJ is helping hospitals implement innovative Mobile applications to
combat this situation.

"Our nurses were devoting too much of their valuable time to tasks
outside of their core competency – tasking such as ordering supplies"
said Bill Grimes MMIS Manager at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a
396-bed hospital based in Lebanon, NH. In addition to being an
inefficient use of their skills, having nurses handle ordering led to
numerous inventory management problems, the common being over stocking
and panic orders. Charged with removing the burden of inventory
ordering and management from the nursing staff and reducing on-hand
inventory on the floors without making significant increase in
materials management staff, Bill Grimes turned to Numbers Only, Inc.

Real Results in Real Time
Dartmouth implemented the @Par Mobile Supply Chain Execution suite and
achieved significant reduction in on-hand inventories. "We cut on-hand
(costs) in some instances by over 50%…" said Bill Grimes. "The savings
we have realized has already offset our entire investment in the
solution — handheld devices and software included." With @Par the
department is able to take up responsibility for more inventory
locations with the same existing staff as a result of more than 400%
productivity improvement.

"In terms of the solution's impact on the organization as a whole, we
now receive a more accurate, real-time look at usage reports, which is
helping drive savings through contract compliance and product
standardization. And, most importantly, our nurses are able to devote
more time to patient care, secure in the knowledge that the supplies
they need will be in the right place at the right time."

Numbers Only also announced that two new hospitals have recently
signed an agreement to implement @Par Suite. Partners Healthcare
System and Scott & White Hospital are implementing @Par to streamline
processes, reduce material handling errors, reduce inventory costs,
improve workflow efficiencies and provide accurate real-time data
needed to make critical business decisions.

Scott & White Clinic and Hospital, combined with the Scott & White
Health Plan, form one of the largest multi-specialty group practices
in the United States of America. Partners HealthCare System, an
integrated health care delivery system, was formed in 1994 when
Massachusetts General Hospital joined with Brigham and Women's
Hospital.

About Numbers Only, Inc.
Numbers Only, Inc. is a leading Wireless Applications Company
headquartered in North Brunswick, NJ with operations in North America,
Asia, and Africa. Numbers Only offers @Par, a product that mobile
enables enterprise systems and helps businesses mobile enable their
staff.



CONTACT:
Jack Pedersen
Director, Business Development
Ph. 732-246-4644, Fx. 246-0062
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www.numbersonly.com