New EMS Solution Under Development

March 5, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The North Carolina Pre-Hospital Medical Information system (PreMIS), a
project in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a documentation, data storage and quality
management solution for the North Carolina EMS community. Currently,
PreMISoffers EMS professionals a method of capturing, submitting and reporting
incident information. Data is submitted to a central database by faxed
form, on-line data entry or import. UNC has signed a contract with Ascot
Technologies, Inc., a Cary based company specializing in wireless
applications, to develop PreMIS Mobile, an advanced means of data capture
and submission via handheld device.

Dr. Greg Mears, the EMS Medical Director for North Carolina describes
PreMIS Mobile as a much anticipated means of capturing information about the EMS
incident, printing of completed documentation of the call for medical
record purposes, and securely transmitting that captured information to the
PreMIS database. PreMIS Mobile encourages electronic data collection in the
field and is designed to be a more complete and accurate alternative to
hand-written documentation of incident data.

Ascot Technologies' CEO Mary Ellen Randall spoke about this project. "We
are very pleased to be assisting UNC's PreMIS project in the development of
their EMS solution. This important project will provide increased
flexibility in the way our emergency personnel respond to calls across all
of North Carolina."

Ascot Technologies provides custom, semi-custom and standardized solutions
including inventory management, customer relationship management, order
management, medical and real estate applications.


About PreMIS: The North Carolina Pre-Hospital Medical Information system
(PreMIS), a project in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a documentation, data
storage and quality management solution for the North Carolina EMS
community. Currently, PreMIS offers EMS professionals a method of
capturing, submitting and reporting incident information. Data is
submitted to a central database by faxed form, on-line data entry or import.

About Ascot Technologies, Inc. is a Cary-based software and system
integration company specializing in wireless applications, Ascot
Technologies provides custom, semi-custom and standardized solutions
including medical, real estate, inventory management, customer
relationship management, and order management applications.


Charlotte Weaver
Project Director: Administration
PreMIS, UNC Emergency Medicine
10002 Main Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919.843.0201
919.843.0195 (fax)
mcweaver@med.unc.edu
www.emspic.org/applications/premis

Annette Cook
Office Manager
Ascot Technologies, Inc.
919 388 1776
919 388 1799(fax)
acook@ascottechnologies.com
www.ascottechnologies.com