Workplace and staff safety

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.

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Ascom Healthcare Platform highlights

Interoperable

Vendor-neutral, interoperable with existing and planned medical devices and communication system

Automated alarms

Automatically activated ‘man-down’, ‘no-movement’ and pull-cord alarms

Better staff morale

Staff can be confident that help is always at hand

Accurate locating

Responders can locate the source of an alarm with room-level accuracy

Scalable

Adapts to meet changing needs. Scalable from an on-site system for a single department/ward, up to mult-site, multi-organization solutions.

Worldwide support

From initial planning with Ascom clinical consultants to installation and solution lifecycle support and training.

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