Ascom Wireless Solutions Freeset DCT1900 Chosen by Orlando Regional Healthcare System for On-Campus Wireless Telephony.Business Editors, Health & Medical Writers RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 26, 2001 1900 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Frequency and Wider Coverage Area Make Ascom(R) Freeset System the Best Choice in Wireless Telephony telephony without wires, usually employing electric waves of high frequency emitted from an oscillator or generator, as in wireless telegraphy. A telephone transmitter causes fluctuations in these waves, it being the fluctuations only which affect the receiver. See also: Wireless for Prominent Florida Hospital System Ascom Wireless Solutions, a market leader for in-building wireless communication solutions, has been selected to provide on-campus wireless telephony services for the Orlando Regional Healthcare Orlando Regional Healthcare is a system of non-profit hospitals serving the Greater Orlando area. There are nine hospitals in the system in six locations. The headquarters for the system are located on the campus of Orlando Regional Medical Center south of Downtown Orlando, System (ORHS ORHS Oak Ridge High School (USA) ORHS Oyster River High School (Durham, NH) ). The Ascom Freeset DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) An algorithm that is widely used for data compression. Similar to Fast Fourier Transform, DCT converts data (pixels, waveforms, etc.) into sets of frequencies. The first frequencies in the set are the most meaningful; the latter, the least. 1900 system was chosen over competing products because it addresses the need for patient safety by operating at a lower radio frequency power output and in the 1900 MHz frequency band, which eliminates the risk of interfering with crucial electronic data transmitting equipment such as heart monitoring systems. In addition, the Ascom Freeset system proved that it could provide ORHS with a significantly wider coverage area than other systems they evaluated. The choice of the Ascom Freeset DCT1900 system was based in part on its ability to integrate with the Rauland-Borg nurse call system in place at ORHS. This improves patient care, increases staff efficiency and eases the workload for hospital caregivers by enabling a direct voice path between patients and nurses via the Ascom portable handset. "Both physicians and nurses alike have expressed extreme pleasure with the quality of service, extent of coverage, and ease of operation," said John Berghuis, ORHS Manager of Network and Telecommunication Services. Ascom has successfully completed the initial installation of their Freeset DCT1900 digital wireless telephone system for the Emergency Department of the Orlando Regional Medical Center The Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) is the only level I trauma center in the Central Florida area and, therefore, provides intensive care for this area. ORMC is part of a group of hospitals known as Orlando Regional Healthcare, and itself is home to three other , the only Level I Trauma Center In the United States, a Level I trauma center provides the highest level of surgical care to trauma patients. A Level I trauma center is required to have a certain number of surgeons and anesthesiologists on duty 24 hours a day at the hospital, an education program, in Central Florida. ORHS plans to install the Ascom Freeset system in many other critical areas throughout the system before eventually being deployed to administrative departments and nursing units. It is anticipated that the overall telephone system will be enhanced and in some cases even replaced with the Ascom solution. Ascom Wireless Solutions Inc. is based in Research Triangle Park, NC and is a subsidiary of Ascom Tateco AB. Ascom is a global market leader for in-building wireless solutions and sells its products through a network of Premier Distributors throughout the Americas. Ascom Tateco is a subsidiary of the Swiss Ascom Group, a leader in telecommunications and service automation with over 10,000 employees worldwide. For more information visit www.ascomwireless.com Orlando Regional Healthcare, a 1,870-bed private, not-for-profit organization was established in 1918. The hospital system serves more than 540,000 Central Florida residents and 4,500 international patients annually. For more information visit www.orlandoregional.org. |
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