Improve frontline caregivers’ safety and confidence. Enhance the working environment and help improve efficiency. The Ascom workplace and staff safety solution is an integrated, end-to-end system. It offers a location function with room-level accuracy. As well as automatic ‘man-down’ and ‘no-movement’ alarms for when staff members cannot raise the alert themselves.
Vendor-neutral, interoperable with existing and planned medical devices and communication system
Automatically activated ‘man-down’, ‘no-movement’ and pull-cord alarms
Staff can be confident that help is always at hand
Responders can locate the source of an alarm with room-level accuracy
Adapts to meet changing needs. Scalable from an on-site system for a single department/ward, up to mult-site, multi-organization solutions.
From initial planning with Ascom clinical consultants to installation and solution lifecycle support and training.
Crucially, the technology development work was done by clinicians instead of to clinicians. It meant we had genuine engagement with nurses and other stakeholders as we carefully planned the hospital from the start – taking in the views of estates, IT, domestic staff, porters, admin, allied health and medical staff
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