Communication Company completes fire alarm and life safety systems inspections for acute healthcare facilities in accordance with NFPA and applicable sections of ACHC/HFAP (Chapter 13 Life Safety) Standards.

The acute care environment represents a dynamic hub of activity, with nurses positioned at its epicenter. Nurses spend long hours managing patient care, coordinating resources across interdisciplinary teams, and providing support to patients’ family members.

Salient’s open cloud video data platform is simple, flexible, and scales with your business needs. The systems empower you to view, record, and use your video data to drive business operations with actionable insights while going beyond your safety and security needs. Salient’s platforms include VMS, Cloud, Analytics, and Appliance solutions that are simple, scalable, and flexible.

IntelliSee is an innovative AI risk-mitigation platform transforming healthcare safety. By seamlessly integrating into existing surveillance systems and employing powerful, deep-learning technology, IntelliSee can detect and mitigate potential threats, including unauthorized persons, vehicles, weapons, and more.

Communication within a hospital or healthcare facility is one of the most critical aspects of patient safety. It's essential that staff, patients, and visitors can communicate seamlessly, quickly, and accurately to provide the best possible care.

Mobile devices have revolutionized the way healthcare is delivered. As technology advances, so do the expectations of healthcare professionals and their patients. With a focus on providing medical staff with access to data and communication tools that enable better patient care and dialog, Spectralink clinical mobile devices are an ideal solution for hospitals and other healthcare organizations.

At Communication Company, we’re more than just a nurse call system provider — we're a source for integrated healthcare communication solutions. For more than 45 years, we’ve been advancing the healthcare industry in northern Indiana and southwest Michigan with innovative solutions by incorporating state-of-the-art, integrated technology systems.

As with Covid-19, contact tracing has become a crucial method to detect and prevent the spread of monkeypox. Rauland Responder® communications solutions have been instrumental in securing healthcare facilities throughout Covid-19 and other contagious outbreaks, including the first U.S. case of MERS in 2014.

Originally published by IntelliSee™

Gone are the days of passive monitoring being enough. We have reached a heightened need for active monitoring solutions to protect ourselves, our employees, and individuals visiting our facilities.

As falls continue to be a major concern for healthcare facilities, introducing fall-prevention strategies is a critical initiative to optimize patient care and improve clinical outcomes.

On February 25, the CDC released new mask recommendations for indoor spaces, relying now on community risk level rather than transmission rates for guidance. According to the new system, each U.S. county is assigned a risk level–high, medium, or low–depending on each county’s individual healthcare data, including COVID-related hospital admissions, bed usage and new cases.

While individual products can claim to be advantageous to a healthcare facility, the true industry game changer lies in how these products are integrated into a single platform solution. As healthcare facilities continue to struggle with the financial difficulties and staff shortages brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, the importance of optimized patient care solutions is crucial in maintaining the integrity of the facility.

While 2020 was a tumultuous year for the healthcare industry, the nurse call systems market experienced accelerated growth.

As technology continues to advance in the healthcare industry, the adoption of mobile applications for clinical use has increased. With heightened security measures to protect patient confidentiality, as well as simplified communication structures, these healthcare mobile apps are rapidly becoming the new standard for professional communication about patient care and building security in an easy-to-use package.

Originally published by IntelliSee™. The global pandemic has elevated healthcare professionals to hero status—one they rightly deserve. Unfortunately, COVID-19 isn’t the only existential threat they face on a daily basis. For hospitals across the country, the threat of violence is all too real.

While the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in the loss of jobs for a number of Americans, employers are now suffering from a lack of qualified candidates. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, there are over 9.8 million open positions across the U.S. while only 8.7 million Americans are searching for jobs. Unlike typical employment cycles, the downturn brought about by the pandemic has affected both job seekers and employers in very unusual ways.

The constant development of technological advances in healthcare is creating a completely new approach to nursing practices that are proving beneficial to both employees and patients. While the Covid-19 pandemic has served as a catalyst for much of the sudden technological changes in healthcare practices, these advances have been continuously improving throughout the last few decades. As we move into the next phase of industry development, the following technologies are predicted to have a lasting impact on the healthcare industry as a whole.

As with many industries throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare has gone digital. While telehealth services are nothing new, the sudden urgency for contactless medical care has caused their popularity to skyrocket in recent months.

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, hospitals and other health care facilities have been forced to reevaluate their IT protocols in order to ensure the safety of patients, visitors and staff. According to the University of Washington Medicine, several critical steps should be taken in healthcare IT departments to reduce the spread of infectious diseases, particularly Covid-19.

As part of this heightened information technology protocol, existing technologies such as the Rauland Responder system, are becoming an increasingly popular non-contact method of communicating with patients. Unlike traditional close-contact communication where nurses and other medical personnel have to do PPE each time they enter the patient’s room, the nurse call system allows medical personnel to attend to every non-urgent patient need without utilizing precious personal protective equipment.