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.

Ascom releases major software upgrade for DURAsuite

Ascom has released a major upgrade of its DURAsuite application that is specifically designed to manage critical messages and alarms. 

The release of DURAsuite 5 further safeguards the security and wellbeing of staff and patients for a complete High Availability (HA) architecture with automatic IP failover and complete data replication. These enhancements provide a complete redundant solution with minimal downtime and near zero data loss.

Click here to read the full Press Release 

Aged and Community Services Australia Conference 2014

Ascom recently attended the 2014 Aged and Community Services Australia National Conference (ASCA) in Adelaide.

The theme this year was based on ‘Coming of Age, Redefining Ageing’. ACSA designed the conference to redefine the experience of aging in our communities as the sector has swiftly matured and is ready to create a new image/pathway for Aged Care.

Delegates met to network with associates old and new and to learn how providers of residential and community services are adapting to change and will help in redefining ageing. Along with presentations and talks from some of the most valued in the industry, businesses had the chance to present their own products in the exhibition.

Ascom exhibited and showcased core products as well as practical demonstrations of Nursecall & Messaging illustrating how to prioritize messages & alarms to enable better workflow for the users with ability to display these message’s on Ascom i62’s and Smartphone with the Unite Axess application. Overall it was a great 3 days & Ascom received some really good feedback and interesting discussions.

If you wish to learn about Ascom product's visit www.ascom.com.au or email au- sales@ascom.com