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. 

Computer on wheels

A study conducted revealed that hospitals in the US that still use old technology, lost over $8.3 billion as it lead to a loss in productivity and increased patient discharge times. Click here to read the full article 

Advantech with Ascom have released the latest mobile medical cart the AMiS-50. Understanding the importance of adopting new technology to improve safety, productivity, mobility and in turn the bottle line. As mobility is a central feature of the healthcare delivery the AMiS-50 allows healthcare professionals to gain access to required information systems, data resources and people as they move between wards, clinics, laboratories, operational theaters and offices. 

The AMiS is constructed to be flexible and tailored to individuals/hospitals needs with over 30 different attachments such as scanner holders, hand disinfection, bottle racks, baskets, clinic folder holders, storage box attachments and more.

To find out more visit www.ascom.com.au/amis or contact us today on +61 02 9698 9000

Ascom Annual Sales Conference 2014

Ascom Australia Staff from around the state went to the Gold Coast last week for our Annual Sale Conference.

Staff met for the 3 day conference to review the past 12 months, share experiences, opportunities and plan for an exciting 2014. Guest speakers included Joakim Heino (Ekahau), Howard Hsiung (Advantech) & Ken Badenfours (Ascom Sweden)

A big congratulations to Andrew Weiss (Melbourne) and Anna Palozzi (Sydney) who were rewarded Sale consultants of the year.  

Accepting the annual cricket bat award.

Product discussions lead around new products for 2014 such as Computer on wheels (AMiS-50 - Advantech), Personal Alarm (Disty-Guard), Location analytic platform (Ekahau -Vision 2.0) and Patient Monitoring (GE Healthcare). 

A big thank you to all guest speakers including Ken Badenfours (Partner Program Manager) making the long 30 hour journey to join us from Sweden to present and discuss future plans and products. Recapping the value we have with our VoWifi, IP-DECT, Nurse Call and paging technologies that smartly integrated via our software like Unite and DURAsuite optimising Mission-Critical processes. 

Ascom Acquires Integrated Wireless

As part of it's growth strategies of increasing penetration in established markets, expanding regionally, and increasing software and services based business, Ascom has acquired it's Australasian value added distributor Integrated Wireless – as announced today (24th December, 2013)... Click here to read more

Ascom Integrated Wireless' Australasian clients will benefit from the introduction of it's Power of One product strategy with a fully integrated platform delivering Patient Systems, Mobility and the Unite clinical applications suite.

In line with Ascom's global focus on services, Ascom Integrated Wireless will continue and increase it's focus on developing and delivering integrated wireless applications with it's core technology partners Ekahau, Juniper, Advantech, Secure Care Products and Trans-Data Management.

The local 60 strong multi-skilled workforce will leverage the capabilities of Ascom's 1,800 employees globally and the annual AUD60M annual R&D investment, to deliver advanced deployment and support services for Australasia.

For further detail contact us at sales@integratedwireless.com.au

Ascom & KPN Join forces

Last Month Ascom & KPN established a partnership combining the two organisations offerings to help deliver a more cost effective, productive and efficient environment in the healthcare industry. Click here to read more

Understanding the growing demands of the healthcare sector the plans will be to develop a patient focused mobile healthcare concept that will enable better workflows. In which Ascom and KPN will provide a complete offer for the healthcare sector, including full integration from devices and applications to implementation and maintenance services.

About Ascom:
Ascom is a provider emergency wireless communications, based in Sweden. Operating in over 10 countries worldwide including Australia, constantly adjusting to the changing market environments providing solutions for Mission-Critical Communication.

About KPN:
KPN is a Dutch Telecommunications company, based in the Hague. KPN has over 6.3 million fixed-line telephone customers. Its mobile division has more than 33 million subscribers in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France and Spain.

Intensive Care Conference

GE Healthcare with it’s partner Integrated Wireless (IW) attended the ANZICS/ACCCN Intensive care conference in Hobart, Tasmania (17-18th of October).

The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) is the leading advocate on all intensive care related matters in Australia & NZ. ANZICS leads the world in intensive care research through its Clinical Trials Group and patient databases. The ANZICS conference bring together intensive care (IC) specialists to listen to subject matter experts and to see the latest IC technology.

IW demonstrated the latest Ascom Mobile Monitoring Gateway (MMG) that in near real time dispatches GE Carescape patient monitoring alarm information to mobile clinical staff carrying Ascom wireless handhelds.

Ascom MMG is the only TGA approved secondary monitoring solution available in the Australian marketplace.

MMG provides…

·         Improved response time to critical patient events

·         Reduced ”alarm fatigue” through smart alarm management

·         Increased efficiency of nursing staff by avoiding unnecessary interruption

·         Increase patient satisfaction and quality of care

Ascom MMG also enables the presentation of waveforms from Carescape on the Ascom wireless handhelds.

The response to the Ascom MMG solution was exceptionally positive with many client’s expressing keen interest. Overall ANZICS was a great event and a fantastic chance to engage and talk to IC practitioners.