Ascom Wireless Solutions announced that they have received Medical Device Directive
clearance by the Swedish Medical Products Agency for their Mobile Monitoring
Gateway (MMG). The MMG is a component in the GE Ascom Solution.
Jointly developed by GE Healthcare and Ascom, the GE Ascom
Solution is a wireless hospital-wide messaging system designed to improve
workflow and communication for healthcare providers. The Mobile Monitoring
Gateway (MMG) provides an interface between GE Healthcare CARESCAPE™ Network
and Ascom Unite Professional Messaging and Alarm Application. It enables
hospitals to customize, filter and send secondary alarms to inform healthcare
professionals of particular medical related events captured by the GE
Healthcare CARESCAPE Network. The alarm is forwarded to Ascom handsets or a
wide variety of devices, including pagers, mobile handsets and/or LED signs.
“Ascom and GE Healthcare have worked together over the past
year to ensure that the end-to-end solution satisfies the requirements within
the hospital environment,” says Dahn Jubell, Director of Direct Sales
Channels for Ascom Wireless Solutions. “This effort has produced a significant
wireless messaging solution with patient safety and increased efficiency focus
and marks Ascom’s continued commitment to the hospital and healthcare market.”
“By providing easy access to quality patient information
from any networked device—wireless, desktop or bedside—GE Healthcare is providing
clinicians with valuable productivity gains and the unique opportunity to act
earlier in the care process to preserve and help improve patient care”, adds
Jubell.
“The clearance of the MMG paves the way for sales of the GE
Ascom Solution within the EU,” says Jose Herraez, General Manager Monitoring
Solutions EMEA, GE Healthcare.
“The GE Healthcare and Ascom Wireless Solution is part of a
hospital-wide wireless messaging system, to improve workflow and communication
for healthcare providers”, adds Herraez.
Additional information about the CARESCAPE portfolio and GE
Healthcare’s approach to patient monitoring can be viewed at www.gehealthcare.com. Additional information about the
Ascom portfolio can be viewed at www.ascom.com.
ABOUT ASCOM WIRELESS SOLUTIONS
Ascom Wireless Solutions (www.ascom.com/ws) is a leading provider of on-site
wireless communications for key segments such as hospitals, elderly care, independent living, manufacturing industries, prisons, retail and hotels. More than 75,000 systems are installed at
major companies all over the world. The company offers a broad range of voice
and professional messaging solutions, creating value for customers by
supporting and optimizing their Mission-Critical processes. The solutions
are based on VoWiFi, IP-DECT, nurse call and paging technologies, smartly integrated into existing
enterprise systems. The company has subsidiaries in 10 countries and 1,200
employees worldwide. Founded in 1955 and based in Göteborg, Sweden,
Ascom Wireless Solutions is part of the Ascom Group, listed on the Swiss Stock
Exchange.
Posted by Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief, MDT
Wireless Design & Development
