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Panasonic Wins AIIM Best Practices 'Standard of Excellence' Award

Scanner group honored for helping medical center cut costs and improve quality of care

SECAUCUS, NJ  April 9, 2009 —The Association for Information and Image Management International (AIIM) has selected Panasonic Communications Company of North America (PCCNA) to receive the 2009 Carl E. Nelson "Best Practices" Award for attaining and maintaining a "standard of excellence that ... can be quantified, adapted, and repeated." Panasonic was named the winner of the small-company solution category during the association’s recent April meeting in Philadelphia.

In awarding this honor AIIM cited a deployment of Panasonic KV-S3065C high-speed and KV-S2065 workgroup scanners that "enabled a major regional medical provider with more than 60 licensed internists, dozens of support personnel and lab technicians, and a case load of approximately 1,000 patients per day, to 'throw a switch' and seamlessly transition from a mid-20th century paper document-management system to a 21st century digital one."

"AIIM is by far the most respected and authoritative Enterprise Content Management (ECM) trade association in the world, which makes winning a Carl E. Nelson Award a special honor for Panasonic," said Bill Taylor, president of Panasonic Communications Company of North America. "The Award is especially meaningful because the winner is selected by AIIM's professional members, who are our peers, and in many cases, are also our competitors."

According to AIIM, Panasonic's deployment of a digital medical-record keeping, billing and workflow-optimization solution for West Virginia's Huntington Internal Medical Group "resulted in more than a 400 percent reduction in document-handling costs that resulted in a net bottom-line gain of approximately $500,000 per year."

"AIIM says that its award winners 'test the boundaries of our industry, look to the future, respect the past, take risks, serve their profession ... welcome diversity of thought...lead by example and hear the call to serve,' " Mr. Taylor  noted.  "By continuing to design, engineer and manufacture both electronic and mechanical components for our ECM hardware products in-house, we expect to be able to serve this industry well into the future.”

About Panasonic Communications Company of North America

Based in Secaucus, NJ, Panasonic Communications Company of North America (PCCNA), is a division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC) and the hub of U.S. branding, marketing, sales, service and R&D operations.  Panasonic is the global leader in corded PBX/IP telephony systems. Information about Panasonic and its products is available at www.panasonic.com. Additional company information for journalists is available at www.panasonic.com/pressroom.

About AIIM

For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association and later became the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM is also known as the enterprise content management (ECM) association. For more information on AIIM, visit its website, http://www.aiim.org/.

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