Ascom and GE partner on ‘one stop’ comms
- 7 May 2010
Swedish wireless technology provider, Ascom and GE Healthcare have partnered to launch a new wireless messaging system to improve communications between healthcare providers.
Under the partnership, GE will provide its patient monitoring platform alongside Ascom’s wireless communication solutions to enable hospitals to customise, filter and send alerts to clinicians’ phones, pagers and digital cordless handsets over Ascom’s VoIP.
The companies say that the partnership will provide a hospital wide, “one stop” solution for wireless secondary alarm management which will turn streams of disparate information into an improved clinical workflow for mobile caregivers.
Fritz Mumenthaler, general manager of the wireless solution division at Ascom, said: "Ascom sees GE Healthcare as an important clinical partner where we add mobility to the medical information. The cooperation between GE Healthcare and Ascom will allow hospital staff to better manage their time to increase patient satisfaction."
The solution will allow clinicians to receive alarm notifications and clinical information via text regardless of their location in the hospital.
David Ataide, vice president and general manager of monitoring solutions and diagnostic cardiology, GE Healthcare, said: "Increasingly, hospitals are leveraging wireless technologies to deliver clinical data directly to mobile devices, leading to valuable productivity gains.
“ By collaborating with Ascom, a global leader in onsite wireless communication systems, GE Healthcare is working to advance hospital alarm management and build on our vision to provide excellent access to quality patient information from most communication devices."
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