UC-Wireless, in conjunction with Welch Allyn, provided live demonstrations of the latest revolutionary communication systems in healthcare that it offers.
Some of Africa's most significant healthcare providers were exposed to these life-changing and time-saving solutions. Staying in constant touch is the key to Healthcare, successful hospitals and Healthcare facilities must respond to patients, physicians, nurses, and other staff members with speed and accuracy. The solutions offered by UC-Wireless are certified integrations with all other systems, of middleware, wireless phones, advanced nurse call and communication consoles designed to facilitate effective time-critical communication and enhance efficiency as well as allow Healthcare facilities to share critical patient information, stay notified and ensure staff safety.
The company that specialises in integrated wireless communication systems demonstrated an array of solutions, from cutting-edge Wi-Fi, wireless communication middleware systems, and patient monitoring integration, to the most advanced nurse call solutions integrated for optimal Clinical care and maximum staff efficiency. Now healthcare facilities in Africa have the opportunity to provide doctors and clinical staff members with a selection of tools to give patients the finest care while all being linked.
The uniqueness of the the systems provided by UC-Wireless is that they offer integrated capabilities and can take inputs from all sources such as Welch Allyn and other common alarm input-based (HL7) patient monitoring and ICU equipment. They also link systems such as lab results, radiology results, medication management, and messaging from patient care device aggregators to the on-site specialised wireless phones of Healthcare facility staff for real-time information updates, resulting in improved patient care with faster response to requests and critical changes in vitals. Doctors and other staff not on-site receive notification of critical alerts and patient updates or lab and radiography results via a secure encrypted Smart Phone interface.
UC-Wireless is proud to have introduced and demonstrated this combination of offerings to the African market, paving the way for Africa to join international standards and enhance its healthcare facilities, enabling staff members to have access to fast, efficient and reliable solutions that lead to world class patient care and, ultimately, saving lives. Products that were showcased at Africa Health 2015 included; Nurse call integration with Rauland Responder 5 (an advanced IP-based solution with phone integration); Spok, certified, interoperable middleware systems with HL7 integration with Welch Allyn Connex CS Central Station (and other HL7 integration with ICU monitoring and ADT HIS (Hospital Information Systems); Spok Mobile Smartphone secure, integrated alarm and event notification; Spectralink Wireless Wi-Fi, fully integrated on-site wireless telephones with Alarm Event and Staff messaging.
The demonstrated benefits of using UC-Wireless's offerings are that the system sends automatic notifications from the nurse call system to caregivers' mobile devices, thus improving staff efficiency. There is a single smart phone for everything from code calls to personal communications. Smart phones can now replace pagers for wide area/off-site coverage and allow staff to carry one single device, while providing key event acknowledgement of receipt. Staff work patterns can now be more efficient. Overhead noise is reduced therefore offering a quiet and healing environment. Importantly the systems reliability ensures critical communication such as code calls reach the correct staff response teams simultaneously and immediately.
UC-Wireless has been operating since 2002, with its head office in Johannesburg, regional office in Cape Town and partners throughout the continent. They are sole distributor in Africa and also operate in the Middle East, offering a selection of tools and solutions for "anything wireless" in an array of industry segments.
UC-Wireless operates in a number of vertical markets and therefore offers solutions to not only the healthcare sector but also the education, retail, warehousing, hospitality, mining, casino/gaming, production/ industrial and enterprise markets. With the explosion of wireless adoption, UC-Wireless is well positioned to take African Healthcare to the next level. For more information, visit http://www.uc-wireless.com
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