Industry round-up

Royal Brompton speeds up network
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust is working with Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade its network infrastructure as part of a clinical systems transformation project.
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Alcatel-Lucent chosen by North Bristol
North Bristol NHS Trust has awarded a contract to Alcatel-Lucent to provide it with an advanced IP telephony system. The project is being carried out by South West Communications Group. The £2m investment will also provide an advanced communications infrastructure for a new ‘super hospital’ in Bristol, scheduled for completion in 2013. The deployment includes […]
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Orange Austria targets mobile e-health
Orange Austria and charity Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Österreich (Workers Samaritan Federation Austria) have begun a trial to pilot a mobile e-health solution for monitoring blood sugar levels and blood pressure. Orange Austria and Alcatel-Lucent have equipped the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund with the Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager solution, an off the shelf e-health platform. The TeleHealth Manager is a tele-monitoring solution that […]
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Orange and Alcatel partner on e-health
French telecomm giants Orange and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a cooperation agreement to develop services for e-health and enhanced assisted living.
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Royal Brompton and Harefield implements WLAN
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London, has implemented a wireless local area network (WLAN) supplied by French telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent.
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Centre Hospitalier installs MediVista
Click to enlarge France’s Centre Hospitalier de la Region d’Annecy has installed an advanced bedside communications and entertainment system supplied by Ireland-based Lincor Solutions. The MediVista system enables both patient bedside entertainment and provides authorised hospital staff with access to clinical data. The new system has been implemented across all 620 beds at Centre Hospitalier […]
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Alcatel-Lucent launches LifeStat
French telecomms giant Alcatel-Lucent has announced the launch outside Canada of LifeStat Remote Monitoring and Health Management, a telemedicine service developed with its Canadian partner SaskTel. The technology will be used to manage patients with chronic conditions in primary care such as diabetes. Future LifeStat applications will include monitoring and reporting for chronic illnesses such […]
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