SAN DIEGO, CA -- Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) today announced new customer deployments that demonstrate the Company's strength in helping healthcare institutions treat patients as quickly and efficiently as possible through anywhere, anytime communications for doctors and nurses. Nortel's healthcare solutions are also designed to provide lower operational costs and enhanced reliability. The announcement was made at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) 2006 conference.
New North American customers benefiting from the enhanced reliability and mobility features of Nortel's healthcare solutions include: Continuum Health Partners (NY), Interior Health Company (Canada), Geisinger Health System (PA), Sparrow Hospital (MI) and Bassett Healthcare (NY).
"Nortel's technology is helping making it possible for healthcare providers to have seamless access to high-bandwidth applications like medical images from PACS (Picture Archive and Communication System) that are critical to delivering improved patient care today," said Alex Pierson, general manager, Enterprise and SMB Communication Systems, Nortel. "Our secure mobility solutions are also designed to assist doctors, nurses, and staff to access more securely confidential patient information in real time, on any device - PDA, laptop, and WLAN phone - helping ensure that decisions about care are made more quickly and efficiently."
Continuum Health Partners has deployed Nortel's mobility solutions across its network of hospitals in New York City which includes over 3,100 beds and 16,000 employees. Nortel's WLAN 2300 and Ethernet Routing Switch solutions enable Continuum to help improve patient care by providing doctors and nurses with real-time access to patient information anywhere, anytime. In addition, the Optical Metro 5200 DWDM platform enables high-speed data services through a highly-resilient converged network, allowing the centralization of their services to reduce administrative and real estate costs while improving the efficiency of delivering medical services. IT staffing responsibilities have also been outsourced to Nortel, including network engineering and day-to-day operations of the network infrastructure.
"The Nortel solution is the foundation for our healthcare communications systems, allowing doctors and nurses to update patient information immediately, regardless of location. In the healthcare environment, that means saving lives," said Marc Milstein, corporate vice president and chief information officer, Continuum. "One exciting application we've been able to implement with the Nortel solution is our Computers on Wheels initiative. The program brings mobility to our clinical information systems, allowing care providers to access information and systems, including radiology, PACS or patient files, where they need it most - at the point of care. Previously this information was only accessible at static stations throughout the hospitals."
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