Polycom Customers Honoured by the Computerworld Honours Programme Including a 21st Century Award Winner in the Healthcare Category

Global Information Technology Awards Foundation pays tribute to individuals and organisations that use information technology to benefit society

LONDON/SLOUGH, UK, - 09 Jun 2010 : Polycom, Inc. [Nasdaq: PLCM], the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communications solutions, is delighted to announce that five of its customers have been recognised as Laureates by the Computerworld Honours Programme. Three of these five Laureates were named as Finalists in their division, with one of these three finalists, the ‘Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing’ in Warsaw, Poland named 21st Century Winner in the Healthcare Category. This year's Honourees were commemorated during the 22nd Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony & Gala Awards Evening, which took place June 7, 2010 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. For more than two decades, Computerworld Honours has acknowledged those individuals and organisations that have used information technology to benefit society.

"We extend our heartfelt congratulations to each of the eight Polycom Laureates that selected by the highly prestigious Computerworld Honours Programme," said Andy Miller, Polycom president and CEO. "Polycom is delighted to play such an integral role in the success of our customers' collaborative communications programmes, which are being used to improve the lives of people around the world."

"Each Laureate selected for this honour understands the importance of using one's resources and technical prowess to benefit one's fellow man,"said Bob Carrigan, chairman of the Computerworld Honours Programme Chairmen's Committee and CEO of IDG Communications Worldwide.

Each of the honourees is using Polycom to break through geographical barriers to educate, care for, and enrich the lives of others. The list of honourees includes:

• The Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Warsaw, Poland (21st Century Award Winner, healthcare) – The Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Warsaw is a leading scientific research and development unit in Poland providing complex care for people with hearing, voice, speech and balance disorders. Today, using high definition (HD) voice and video solutions from Polycom, experienced specialists from the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing are able to perform necessary treatments of measurement and cochlear implant system fittings for the 2,500 patients that have cochlear implants. "We're very honoured by this recognition and by the opportunity to make the difference that we are in the lives of others,"said Henryk Skarzynski, professor and a director of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology Hearing. "The Polycom video conferencing solutions were the only equipment that provided the quality required for the application."
• Center for Connected Medicine (Finalist) – The integration of technology with medical care is so central to the UPMC mission that the organisation has become not only a founding partner, but also the driving force behind the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM), a high-tech experience centre that allows leading healthcare providers to learn about the collaborative, integrated approaches to medicine being practiced at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). The CCM is the first such collaborative effort in the world where leaders in HIT have come together with a leading healthcare system to break down barriers and look to improve patient care through technology. "Receiving this prestigious award in our first year of operation is remarkable,"said Andrew Watson, M.D., MLitt and medical director of the Center for Connected Medicine. "We're honoured, and we truly believe that good business and good healthcare go together. The CCM aims at educating healthcare organisations around the globe on achieving maximum results through integrated communications, and we're optimistic we'll achieve our goal."
• South Carolina Department of Mental Health (Finalist) – The South Carolina Department of Mental Health (DMH) delivers timely, high-quality mental health care to underserved emergency departments (EDs) statewide using a video communications network powered by Polycom. The DMH's video network funded by The Duke Endowment allows patients to have immediate access to the state's psychiatric network and, at the same time, significantly enhances DMH's ability to provide effective services to local hospital EDs. "This recognition is truly an honour,"said Ed Spencer, director of the DMH Telepsychiatry Programme. "The use of telemedicine has revolutionised how we're delivering care to patients around the state of South Carolina, improving access and improving outcomes. The results have been phenomenal."
• Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) (Laureate) – Michigan is saving hundreds of thousands of dollars, improving worker productivity and bolstering public safety with high definition (HD) telepresence solutions from Polycom. With more than 85 video conferencing locations, MDOC keeps costs in check by providing a range of services including telemedicine, parole hearings, judicial hearings and administrative hearings. "We're delighted to receive this recognition for our work,"said Lynette J. Holloway, video conferencing coordinator, Bureau of Fiscal Management, Michigan Department of Corrections. "We're able to deliver care to more patients in less time, and the savings we're seeing - both in money and in time - would be impossible to achieve without video conferencing."
• The Telemedicine Coordination Nucleus of the Medical Sciences School of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FCM-UERJ) (Laureate) – The Telemedicine Coordination Nucleus of the Medical Sciences School of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FCM-UERJ) have improved the free access for medical assistance and available health information for the Brazilian population, with the use of interactive technology. Since its inception, many patients have benefited from the use of the video telemedicine system.

"We are grateful for this prestigious recognition,"said Evelyn Eisenstein, M.D. and associate professor at FCM-UERJ. "The use of video conferencing has helped us help vulnerable populations and train other health professionals throughout Brazil, and we've seen remarkable results. We're honoured to help with such a worthy cause."

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