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2025 Tech Trends: 4 Healthcare IT Focus Areas
Where are health systems expected to direct their energy in the new year? Four CDW experts share their perspectives on the industry’s outlook in this article from HealthTech.com.
2025 Access Control Predictions: AI, the Cloud and Mobile Credential Applications to Expand
Effective and efficient physical access control isn’t just a hot technology trend. It’s a security essential for any school, institution of higher education, or hospital. And, according to Campus Safety’s recent exclusive research, educational and healthcare facilities are stepping up their acquisition of advanced access control systems. To delve deeper into what trends the campus security community is experiencing and should expect to see in 2025, practitioners, consultants, and solutions providers shared their insights in this article from Campus Safety.
Combatting Holiday Nurse Shortages with Technology
As the holiday season approaches, emergency rooms are preparing for an anticipated increase in patient admissions. With staff shortages already a prevailing issue in healthcare facilities, the increase in nurse call-offs by up to 30% during the winter holiday period further exacerbates this lack of resources, negatively impacting both staff and patients during the most “wonderful time of year. In order to respond to these challenges, healthcare facilities can leverage modern technology to streamline efficiency for better patient outcomes and staff well-being.
Rauland Responder All Touch for EMR: The Right Data at the Right Time to the Right People
In the course of a day of patient care, there are so many steps you take physically, mentally and emotionally. Now, you can take fewer steps and be more directly linked with the care team managing patients’ needs. Responder All Touch is that pathway—the communication bridge that links Responder 5 directly with the EMR.
Midwest Healthcare Engineering Conference & Trade Show November 11-12
The Midwest Healthcare Engineering Conference & Trade Show (MWHCEC) gives you nearby, cost-effective access to the best healthcare facility education, resources, and vendors so you can afford to bring your entire team, including technicians.
Why Smarter Protection Matters in a Hospital
Hospitals cannot evacuate their patients; therefore, the right fire safety solutions for fire prevention are crucial. Facility managers or service providers must detect fire events as early and reliably as possible. In this way, they can handle hazards without disturbing patients and staff. That‘s why Smarter Protection Matters.
Boost Patient, Staff, and Public Engagement with Vizabli ACES
Better care and better outcomes start with more patient care time and better visibility of real-time data. Vizabli's acute care engagement solution (ACES) is designed to engage and provide real-time data to hospital staff, patients, and the patient’s friends and family.
The Importance of Access Control in Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
Healthcare administrators, security teams and IT staff have many options when it comes to developing dedicated healthcare access control systems, though effective solutions must be adapted to the unique needs of each facility. To aid personnel in approaching this important process, here is a comprehensive guide to effective access control in healthcare facilities.
Spectralink Versity Family of Smartphones Earn Android Enterprise Recommended Status
Spectralink’s innovative Versity smartphones have all achieved the prestigious Android Enterprise Recommended certification. This designation ensures devices meet the industry’s highest standards for security, compatibility, and user experience.
AI-Powered Safety for Assisted Living Centers
Falls, elopement, and other incidents pose significant health risks to residents, fears for their families, and financial burdens to care facilities. This comprehensive guide explores how IntelliSee, a revolutionary AI-driven safety platform, can transform safety protocols in assisted living centers.
How Interoperability and Analytics Change the Nurse Call Paradigm
Integrating hospital systems, including nurse call, brings connected care directly into the patient room, optimizing care and minimizing fall risks within hospitals.
Rauland Responder Enterprise wins 2024 MedTech Breakthrough award
Rauland's Responder® Enterprise solution has been selected as winner of the “Best Clinical Administration Hardware Device” award in the 8th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by MedTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global digital health and medical technology market.
Have You Tested Your Facility Fire Alarms Lately?
Communication Company completes fire alarm and life safety systems inspections for acute healthcare facilities in accordance with NFPA and applicable sections of ACHC/HFAP (Chapter 13 Life Safety) Standards.
Empowering Nurses Through Interoperable Technology
The acute care environment represents a dynamic hub of activity, with nurses positioned at its epicenter. Nurses spend long hours managing patient care, coordinating resources across interdisciplinary teams, and providing support to patients’ family members.
Salient Leading Surveillance Management Software for Every Application
Salient’s open cloud video data platform is simple, flexible, and scales with your business needs. The systems empower you to view, record, and use your video data to drive business operations with actionable insights while going beyond your safety and security needs. Salient’s platforms include VMS, Cloud, Analytics, and Appliance solutions that are simple, scalable, and flexible.
Eye in the Sky: Intellisee Augments Security with Proactive, AI-Driven Monitoring
IntelliSee is an innovative AI risk-mitigation platform transforming healthcare safety. By seamlessly integrating into existing surveillance systems and employing powerful, deep-learning technology, IntelliSee can detect and mitigate potential threats, including unauthorized persons, vehicles, weapons, and more.
Nurse Call System Testing: Reducing Risk and Ensuring Compliance with Communication Company
Communication within a hospital or healthcare facility is one of the most critical aspects of patient safety. It's essential that staff, patients, and visitors can communicate seamlessly, quickly, and accurately to provide the best possible care.
VIDEO: Leverage the Benefits of Spectralink Clinical Mobile Devices in Healthcare Settings
Mobile devices have revolutionized the way healthcare is delivered. As technology advances, so do the expectations of healthcare professionals and their patients. With a focus on providing medical staff with access to data and communication tools that enable better patient care and dialog, Spectralink clinical mobile devices are an ideal solution for hospitals and other healthcare organizations.
Communication Company's Range of Integrated Healthcare Solutions
At Communication Company, we’re more than just a nurse call system provider — we're a source for integrated healthcare communication solutions. For more than 45 years, we’ve been advancing the healthcare industry in northern Indiana and southwest Michigan with innovative solutions by incorporating state-of-the-art, integrated technology systems.
From MERS to monkeypox: How RTLS is changing the way we respond to contagious outbreaks
As with Covid-19, contact tracing has become a crucial method to detect and prevent the spread of monkeypox. Rauland Responder® communications solutions have been instrumental in securing healthcare facilities throughout Covid-19 and other contagious outbreaks, including the first U.S. case of MERS in 2014.