EXTENSION, INC. has teamed up with Polycom to integrate its clinical alerting and notification solutions with Polycom wireless handset technology.
This new merger will incorporate EXTENSION server-based messaging software platform for enterprise healthcare organizations with the Polycom SpectraLink 8400 series wireless handsets.
This will be a boon to clinicians to receive contextual messages from any location that can help them to take more informed decisions regarding patient treatment and thus improve patient outcomes and satisfaction. This solution will also collect data from various IT and clinical systems and other medical devices to deliver time-sensitive alerts or notifications to the handsets commonly carried by nurses and other healthcare professionals.
Todd Plesko, CEO of EXTENSION said that many healthcare organizations have long used Polycom solutions for clinical communications and EXTENSION is delighted to bring intelligent integration, alerting and messaging capabilities to a recognized market leader.
SpectraLink is termed as an enterprise-grade wireless phone that works on converged voice and data Wi-Fi infrastructure that can withstand the rigors of tough hospital workplace environments while providing rugged reliability.
The handsets provide all the feature functionality of a desk phone while significantly improving employee mobility, responsiveness and productivity. The SpectraLink 8400 series Voice over Wireless LAN handsets transform the delivery of mobile healthcare applications by bringing the power of thin client and browser technology to front-line healthcare professionals in an easy-to-use and easy-to-manage interface.
“With EXTENSION, Polycom handsets will now have the ability to communicate directly with smartphones thus enabling nurse-to-physician communication and collaboration, and vice versa. This secure, HIPAA-compliant, messaging capability combined with integration to clinical applications and devices will place Polycom and EXTENSION at the forefront of secure and convenient clinical communications,” Plesko added.
Apart from the above utilities, the solution will also include nurse call integration and alerting, abnormal lab result notifications, STAT order notifications, report availability notifications, and other common workflow scenarios.
This solution is expected to be generally available to customers in January 2012, said the company officials.
In other news, EXTENSION, INC. recently announced that it has received a 2011 Tech Innovator award from CRN in the Software-Enterprise Management category. CRN's 9th annual Tech Innovator listing celebrates vendors that have introduced new products or solutions to drive advances in the technology channel. Companies on this exclusive list recently implemented innovative methods to bridge the gap between current problems and solutions facing channel executives today.
Jyothi Shanbhag is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of Jyothi's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
Jennifer Russell
