Ascom — hospital IT communication systems

Ascom already offers solutions that can dramatically improve communication and collaboration within hospitals — solutions that can increase patient safety, staff satisfaction and clinical workflows.

Doctors and nurses are always on the move, yet the information they need is often quite inaccessible. The Ascom system makes it possible to store data in a database, regardless of location, via a mobile device. The system can transmit monitoring alerts from all medical equipment while minimising noise pollution and the risk of alarm fatigue. The challenge is for staff to receive timely data and alerts about patients — but too many clinically insignificant alerts, especially for night staff, can compromise patient wellbeing. Intelligent alarm management filters the alert flow to the right specialist staff.

Medical care is the team’s most important activity, but to work, every team member — from lab technicians to specialist physicians — needs access to up-to-date patient and treatment data. Ascom Patient Care Share solutions make the data flow secure and easy, building on the infrastructure you already have.

Hospitals often suffer from a “communication deficit” — separate units, people and technologies that communicate with difficulty, causing delays and patient dissatisfaction. Removing this requires “data mobility”, where clinical and care information is as mobile as the people who use it. This requires integration software such as Ascom Unite, and for mobile phones the Ascom Myco smartphone, which lets staff securely receive messages, alerts and clinical data.

Real-time location services (RTLS) indicate where help is needed — whether a staff alarm, faulty equipment or a fallen patient whose location is unknown. This means less time spent searching, more productive equipment use and patients under safe monitoring. RTLS can help your staff locate colleagues, patients and medical equipment.