Ascom visits St Stephen's Hospital

Last month Ascom joined a group of health professionals for an official site tour at Australia's first fully integrated digital hospital (St Stephens Hospital), located in Hervey Bay, Queensland. The event was organised by Health Informatics Society Australia (HISA). 

As part of the tour, Ascom's Sales & Marketing Director - Feargal O'Farrell was asked to present to the group as Ascom were responsible for the deployment of the Workstation on Wheels (WoW) solution, which provides a fully integrated, fully mobile nursing station. 

The Advantech AMiS-50 workstation on wheels solution features: 

• Integrated Medprox medication dispensing cabinets, to help enhance critical clinical systems such as bedside documentation and beside medication administration.
• Neat cable routing to avoid snagging and for easy cleaning and management
• Fanless operation for improved infection control
• Larger wheels for easy movement on all floor types
• Industrial grade battery for longer computer run time & to last throughout a shift 

Ascom would like to thank HISA & St Stephens hospital for having us, the event was very successful. 

If you wish to find out more about Ascom and our solutions please call 02-9698-9000 or email au-marketing@ascom.com

Annual Sales Meeting

The Ascom sales team gathered in Melbourne last week for our Annual Sales Conference. 

A lot was achieved over the two days, the major topics discussed:

• The successful launch of Ascom's latest innovation, a smartphone designed around clinicians, the Ascom Myco.
• Ascom's complete product portfolio 
• The Unite offering, Unite Connect, Core and Axess
• Nurse Call Market Update

As well as business reviews and planning for the year, participants enjoyed guest speakers Joakim Heino from Ekahau and Dan Ehrhardt from Ascom US presenting on our Unite application suite.

We also recognised our outstanding achievers for 2014, with Ian McLachlan winning Sales Executive of the Year and runners up Andrew Weiss.

Thank you for all who participated and we look forward to a great year ahead!

Ascom's Recap of 2014

Welcome back from your holidays and we hope you had a great well deserved break. Ascom would like to thank everyone for making our 2014 such a success!

Some of our highlights from 2014 include:

• The launch of a new smartphone designed for Nurses, the Ascom Myco. Ascom Myco was officially launched in October and followed on with 3 exciting product launch events in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. We have already received great feedback on the device, click here to see article recapping the event
• The completion of a wireless communications platform for Port Macquarie Base Hospital (NSW), as part of their recent building expansion project. 
• The successful deployment of an all-in-one integration of mission critical communications at Wyndham Private Clinic in Melbourne
• Roll out of Workstations on Wheels (WoW) to provide an integrated innovative hospital at St Stephens Hospital in Brisbane

If you want to learn more about Ascom please contact us on au-marketing@ascom.com to join our Solution set Webinar on 10th of the February

Thanks again for your support in 2014 and we look forward to the year ahead!

Ascom launches its latest innovation - Myco

• MYCO Launch Event - Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney
• Guest speakers from GE Health Care & Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) 
• Purpose Built Smartphone for Clinician and Nurses • Help to deal with the threat of “alarm fatigue” 
• Key features: Touch screen, 3G and Wi-Fi, Top display, long-lasting swappable battery and a robust design

Ascom Australia launched its latest innovation, Myco - a purpose built smartphone designed around clinician and nurses. The launch event was hosted in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney on 10th-12th of November.

Feargal O’Farrell, Sales and Marketing Director of Ascom, unveiled the key features of Myco and outlined the importance of the dedicated Nurse User Interface. “Our User Experience team have spent a lot of time workshopping with nurses and caregivers to understand what is required to build a user interface that helps nurse’s process alarms and information better”. “Through a single sideways swipe can exit the Nurse User Interface and access the standard Android screen and the other installed applications, and with another swipe can revert back to the Nurse User Interface. The Nurse User Interface addresses the core issues of building a safer environment of patients with better alarm handling.”

An overview of some of Myco key features:

• Top Display for "At a Glance" notifications 
• Barcode scanner
• Carrying clip 
• Durability
• Long-lasting swappable battery 
• Prioritised mission-critical Apps. 
• Patient-centric user experience.
• Fully centralised management.
• Compact, lightweight, and highly ergonomical design

The session programme comprised of not only discussions from Ascom, but also presentations from Paul Merrett - GE Healthcare, describing Simplified Patient Alarm Management and Greg Moran from Health Informatics society Australia (HISA) presenting on HISA, strategic priorities and on e-health -observations of current market trends.

Ascom are proud to finally release Myco to the world of healthcare, and welcomed active discussions around the device - overall positive feedback was received.

For more information on Myco visit www.ascommyco.com or further articles from the launch event from Australian Ageing Agenda & IT Pulse. 

Ascom Myco Update

On October the 1^st, Ascom announced the release of our new Smartphone the Ascom Myco – “My companion”.

We’re really excited about Myco, it’s a smartphone designed for nurses & clinicians. Myco has all the standard features of a smartphone, such as a touch screen, 3G and Wi-Fi, but in addition it has a robust design for withstanding knocks and drops, and also moisture and dust for maintaining hygiene.

Additional features include, a top display that can show scrolling messages and a coloured LED to show the priority of the message. A Barcode reader enables patient and medicine identification for improved safety using current and coming technologies.

We focused on three important areas: to reduce alarm fatigue, mobilise the information to the point of care and improve clinical workflows. 

The official launch event of the Ascom Myco will be held at the below states: 

• Melbourne November 10th
• Brisbane November 11th
• Sydney November 12th

There will be live demonstrations, exciting guest speakers and a great chance to meet the team and find more on what we have installed for MYCO.

Enquire now to see if there are still spots available to attend

Ascom Launches a New Solution for Integrated Workflow Intelligence in Healthcare – the Ascom Myco Smartphone

On the 1st of October, Ascom released a new purpose-built smartphone for healthcare. The Ascom Myco, specifically designed for nurses and clinicians.

Together with Ascom Unite middle-ware, nurse call systems and 3rd party apps, Ascom Myco is an important influence when solving the equation of managing with limited resources and high demands on quality of care.

See full press release for further information or visit www.ascommyco.com

Ascom Solution Set Webinar

Last month Ascom conducted a Solution Set Webinar, focusing on some of our key products and solutions.  People joined in all across Australia, from a range of various companies all with an involvement in healthcare (please note Ascom also provides to several different industries including Aged Care, Corrective & Prisons, and Industrial industries, Retail, Education, Rail and Hotel).

Feargal O’Farrell our Sales & Marketing Director, presented a detailed overview of some of Ascom’s most significant solutions. These included:

• Mobile Duress
• Critical Messaging
• Call Systems
• Patient & Asset Tracking
• Clinical Computing

Starting off with a brief background into Ascom and the benefits involved, we then moved on to the importance of alarms, the different types of alarms and also critical messaging through Duress systems, Nursecall systems, and Patient Monitoring.

The different types of patient and asset tracking devices were discussed, along with RTLS. Clinical computing concluded the presentation discussing the Amis-50 cart and our smartphone app Unite Axess.

There was a great response to the webinar, those who attended left with a strong understanding of Ascom’s range of solutions and were only eager to find out more.

For this reason we will be holding another webinar on the 30^th of October, that will include further information related to our new product release the Ascom Myco smartphone.Please email au-marketing@ascom.com if you are interested in attending.