If you had more time for patient care, how—and where—would you spend it?

Are your communications impacting the duration of patient cycles, reducing the quality of care?

How much time is wasted finding the right resources and tracking orders for patients?

Your challenges:

• Raise operational efficiency;
• Increase the quality of care;
• Improve clinician satisfaction.

Alcatel-Lucent healthcare solutions:

• Clinical workflow optimization—offering improvements in efficiency and effectiveness;
• Real-time communication of clinical information anywhere, anytime—increasing flexibility to provide timely care;
• Safety, security and privacy of confidential patient and medical information— providing mobile and virtual care delivery environments, enhancing clinician collaboration.

Easy-to-use collaboration tools that enable faster communication with members of your care team—regardless of their location.

Solutions components:

• OmniPCX Enterprise
• My Teamwork on Windows Mobile Platform

Mobility tools that let clinicians spend more time with patients and less time running to the phone.

Solution Components

• VoWLAN IP Touch phones that provide nurse calls, codes, IV infusion pump alerts, and lab values
• OmniPCX Enterprise with notification server and IP Touch wireless phones

The integration of multiple systems, such as nurse call and code systems into mobile communications tools, reduce overhead paging and increase patient satisfaction.

Solution Components

• OmniPCX Enterprise with notification server
• Nurse call systems
• Code system
• IP Touch phones – wired and wireless

Supporting Materials

Solutions for Healthcare (White Paper)
The healthcare sector faces a number of tough challenges. Keeping up with citizens’ demand for higher quality of life and patients’ expectations for better and safer care are increasingly difficult in the face of cost constraints, shortages of healthcare professionals and an aging society.

Unified Communications (Application Note)
One of the key challenges — and key opportunities — facing healthcare institutions today is communications. Existing communications infrastructures may feature static, disparate systems that do not interoperate. Doctors may have to carry two or three different pagers in addition to a mobile phone so they can be reached by different hospitals, departments and paging systems.

Transforming the Healthcare System (Interview)
Liz Hervatic, Senior Director of Healthcare Business Development at Alcatel-Lucent, talks about the advantages of a healthcare system that is flexible and based on real-time.

Changing the culture of care at Advocate Healthcare with Alcatel- Lucent’s OmniTouch My Teamwork (Case Study)
Based in Oak Brook, Illinois, Advocate Healthcare is the largest fully integrated not-for-profit health care system in metropolitan Chicago and is recognized as one of the top 10 systems in the United States.

Building the Next-Generation Network to Improve Patient Care (Case Study)
As the region’s largest employer with 43,000 employees and nearly $6 billion in revenue, UPMC comprises 19 tertiary, specialty and community hospitals, 400 outpatient sites and doctors’ offices, retirement and long-term care facilities, an insurance plan and international ventures.The Alcatel-Lucent 8550 Web Services

The Alcatel-Lucent 8550 Web Services Gateway —Automated Workflow for Improved Patient Care (Application Note)
Healthcare institutions, particularly in the United States, are challenged to provide high quality patient care, while reducing clinical errors and patient wait times. Currently, many healthcare institutions are struggling under the weight of antiquated, highly manual, business processes with little integrated IT system support.