Nurse Call solution enabling proficient workflows enters the Australian market

Last week, Ascom officially released its North American product, the Ascom Telligence Nurse Call system in Australia and New Zealand.

Ascom believes that Nurse Call systems in today’s healthcare environment needs to be able to deliver communication solutions that are cost-effective, superiority patient care and process efficient.

The unique platform seamlessly integrates with a variety of healthcare applications including medical equipment and real time location systems for optimal caregiver workflows.  

Telligence empowers clinicians with the right tools to bring the right information to the right staff at the right time. 

For more information on Ascom Telligence Nurse Call system please call 02-9698 9000 or email au-marketing@ascom.com

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. 

Unite Axess Roadshow

From Monday 25th November through to Monday 2nd December Integrated Wireless launched the Ascom Unite Axess smartphone messaging application with presentations and demonstrations in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth.

IW received a lot of very positive feedback on how Ascom Unite Axess plus the other Unite applications changes how clinicians and operations personnel receive and view alarms from clinical and operational systems such as...

> Nursecall

> Patient Monitoring

> HIS/LIS

Unite Axess is a component of Ascom's Unite platform that runs on the Unite Application Manager server. Axess version 3 provides all the managed messaging capability of Ascom's traditional WiFi and DECT wireless handhelds.

Unite Axess v3 will be available in Q1 2014 and IW is eager to work on pilot or proof-of-concept deployments with clients in order to identify how integrated smartphone messaging will enhance healthcare clinical and operational workflows.

To learn more about Unite Axess go to www.integratedwireless.com.au/uniteaxess or contact us on +61 02 9698 9000

Improving your workplace safety

What are you doing to help protect your staff?

In the past month, more than 14 critical incidents have been logged with the Health and Community Unions.(The Age 2013).

Are your current procedures using the latest technology?
Integrated Wireless provides the latest technology allowing you to protect your staff and patients in a fast paced and emotionally charged working environment..

By leveraging your current Wifi systems, IW’s solutions enables a cost effective facility wide approach to be taken. IW has a track record of delivering systems that can locate staff in emergency situations to within 3-5 metres by using real time location technology.

IW's mobile duress solution leverages the real time location system to reduce risks, increase response times and enhance the level of communication. As our units allow you to raise alarms, send/receive messages via our DURAsuite application and make/take calls, management of both time and life critical alarms and messages is simplified.

See how the Monash Health (formerly South Health) utilised the knowledge and solutions IW has to offer, allowing them to improve their safety and productivity. (Monash Health Case Study)

Is it time to update your technology and allow your staff to feel safe?

Contact our sales team +61 (0) 9698 9000 or visit our website www.integratedwireless.com.au