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Annecy Hospital deploys 600 smart terminals for converged IT and
entertainment network
29 June 2009
The Centre Hospitalier de la Region d’ Annecy (CHRA) in France has
deployed over 600 JAOtech Smart Terminals to form the bedside front-end
of a high performance information system offering converged voice, data
and imaging. It is believed to be the largest deployment of such
terminals in France.
The 600 JAOtech Obie terminals, all-in-one computers with a 17” touch
screen provide medical staff with secure access to clinical data at the
patient’s bedside, giving full access to the relevant records and data
alongside the facility to prescribe treatments for delivery by the
hospital’s fully automated pharmacy.
The same terminals provide patients with digital entertainment and
communications including telephone, Internet access, IPTV, video on
demand and radio, and also provide access to hospital management
functions or accessing other information to help make their stay more
comfortable.
According to Emmanuel Hardy, Commercial Director of Netlogon, whose
company integrated the system, “Our partnership with JAOtech was a huge
opportunity for us. It allowed us to deliver a complete and fully
integrated package of patient entertainment and healthcare applications
and take it right to the patient’s bedside.”
Medical staff log onto the system using their identification badges —
making access quick and simple, according to the Head of the hospital’s
Infectious Disease Ward, Dr Jacques Gaillard. “This is a completely new
environment for us — something very innovative that changes the way we
work.
"We have instant access to the complete set of records and data
relating to each patient, putting us in a position to make a full
clinical assessment on the spot. Using the prescription system, we can
immediately take that assessment forward and prescribe the most
appropriate treatment from the range of options that we have available
at the hospital. Our clinical assessment, together with any treatment
provided, can then be recorded on the spot rather than leaving this as a
task for later.”
Warren Kressinger-Dunn, Managing Director of JAOtech, commented,
“CHRA are using JAOtech Smart Terminals to deliver clinical access,
patient entertainment and hospital management applications at the
bedside — exploiting their full potential.
"Electronic medical records are becoming more and more sophisticated
in European healthcare organisations, and the installation at Annecy
illustrates how JAOtech terminals are a key link bringing those records
to the point of care when consultations are taking place.”
CHRA has a digital hospital concept, and prescriptions are delivered
automatically to the ward through an automatic system of robots. The
system has been implemented across 600 beds at the CHRA.
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