Communications is a critical part of a healthcare provider’s daily operations. In the hospital environment, productivity and accuracy are very important, lives are at stake, and every second counts. Alait works closely with hospitals and healthcare providers to provide the best communications solutions based on COMRAD TEAM system available.
During last years COVID-19 pandemic, radio communications play a pivotal role in coordinating emergency responses and drive-through COVID-19 testing, deploying new medical facilities, and managing over-burdened medical staff and resources. The radio communications challenges during this time of crisis are to rapidly expand existing radio networks and deploy radios where there are no existing radio systems.
COMRAD TEAM solution lets deploy new modern communication system very fast and with OPEX/CAPEX costs control.
Alait’s COMRAD TEAM Solution based on Push-To-Talk over Cellular (PoC) technology provides rich communication services for hospitals & healthcare industry including voice, video, data, and unified dispatch. With the COMRAD TEAM solution including subscriber terminals (radio-style, smartphones of tablets), users can access PTT services through the public networks (3G/4G) Wi-Fi network.
Hospitals and medical centers are 24/7 facilities where there is a continuous activity to give patients care and treatment. The personnel is always in need of great and effective communication to control every single eventuality. Alait supports these leading medical customers by providing COMRAD TEAM – a simple, easy-to-use communications system that offers Push-to-Talk and emergency features for hospital staff and administrators.
Today, the most advanced hospitals and medical centers expand their operations’ geography to offer preventive medical care in addition to reactive treatment. As they do, they need a straightforward instant communications solution that includes emergency handling features, and COMRAD TEAM fills the bill.
The world’s leading hospitals are always recognized for high-quality patient care – that is the barometer for excellence. Many healthcare organizations now begin to offer preventive, holistic services as opposed to the traditional, reactive care to treat patients. Large medical centers located in big multi building facilities (often with few different locations), have thousands employees and treat hundreds of thousand people per year.
Large hospitals and medical centers can guarantee to their customers high level of medical treatment and safety by implementing COMRAD TEAM – a simple, easy-to-use communications system that provides Push-to-Talk (PTT) and emergency features for hospital staff and administrators. This product facilitates instantaneous communications between personnel as well as emergency features that can alert administration and security staff in case of any type of incident. Keeping all personnel safe and in-touch with the security staff and/or first responders is the purpose of COMRAD TEAM solution.
CHALLENGES
Delivering professional and world-class patient care requires top level doctors, nurses and other support personnel. In addition to the front line expertise, it is also important to have trained, experienced operational personnel with the right communication tools to ensure, the hospital is providing a superb experience for patients. Operational staff responsible for maintenance, housekeeping, transportation and security needs a tool that can facilitate instant and effective communication to perform their functions. Traditional radio system can provide PTT voice communication for Hospital employees. Alait’s COMRAD TEAM solution lets move from traditional radio system to modern cost effective and easy-to-use technology keeping all PTT Voice features and adding lot of new functions (like Video and Data transmission), advanced emergency and dispatch services and possible integration with other IT-Solutions.
SOLUTION
COMRAD TEAM solution includes different kind of subscriber terminals (mobile – for vehicle installation and portable – “radio style”, smartphones, tablets with dedicated PTT and Emergency buttons) which can be configured to provide more advanced communication capabilities. COMRAD TEAM lets make Video Calls, High Resolution Video transmission by demand, Photo and Data transmission, all Calls and other activity in hospital logging and playback.
COMRAD TEAM Dispatcher provides additional capabilities – broad dispatch functions for control and command center, subscribers and groups status control and management, outdoor and indoor positioning, tracking and geofencing, dynamic group setup, Video and Audio Feeds enabling from any device whose emergency button was pushed.
COMAND TASK in conjunction with COMRAD TEAM can create and track complex tasks for individual and team fulfilment and results reporting using QR codes, BLM and NFC chips, photo and video records.
Security of staff and patients is a top-priority of the healthcare organizations. Hospitals and medical centers have unique challenges that require emergency solutions, but ones that are simple to implement and cost-effective. COMRAD TEAM by Alait leverage the hospital’s investment in Wi-Fi and hardware devices to provide an over-the-top application. COMRAD TEAM suits the needs of different groups of users like Hospital divisions, the facility Doctors, nurses and front-lines staff interacting with patients. User or dispatcher can simply use the device to send an Emergency alert to security if necessary; contact maintenance, house-keeping, transportation and operational departments. COMRAD TEAM can be linked with telephone network and existed radio system.
Easy-to-use and cost effective solution, modern technology, broad functionality and different type subscriber devices, the possibility of integration with other IT-solutions make COMRAD TEAM communication and COMRAD TASK Task Management systems offered by Alait are ideal for the unique and challenging communication needs of hospitals and medical centers.