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Improve clinicians’ safety and confidence whilst also enhancing efficiency and the working environment. The Ascom workplace and staff safety solution is an integrated, end-to-end solution. Personal alarms that are raised from the solution, complete with location, go directly to responders. It also offers a location function with room-level accuracy, plus 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 systems.
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.
Our solutions adapt to meet changing needs. They are scalable from an on-site system for a single department/ward, through to a multi-site hospital.
From initial planning with Ascom Clinical Consultants through to installation, 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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