Bol­dyn Net­works and Ascom col­lab­o­rate to max­imise dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion at Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal

Bol­dyn Net­works (Bol­dyn) and Ascom have joined forces to enhance dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion at Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal (OYS) by boost­ing 300 Ascom Myco 4 devices for the use of hos­pi­tal staff, enabled by Boldyn’s pri­vate 5G Standalone(SA) net­work. This is part of the Hola Oulu project where con­sor­tium mem­bers Pohde, Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal (OYS), Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu, and WICOAR Tech­nolo­gies Oy are rev­o­lu­tion­is­ing patient care by imple­ment­ing advanced, secure, high-capac­i­ty con­nec­tiv­i­ty with­in the hos­pi­tal envi­ron­ment.

Ascom, a lead­ing provider of health­care com­mu­ni­ca­tion solu­tions, has proven the effec­tive­ness of their devices in con­nect­ing health­care staff at insti­tu­tions like Chase Farm Hos­pi­tal (UK), Paoli-Cal­mettes Insti­tute (France), and Vaasa Cen­tral Hos­pi­tal (Fin­land). The Myco 4 devices are pro­fes­sion­al-grade, 5G-ready smart­phones designed for mis­sion-crit­i­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tion. At the Paoli-Cal­mettes Insti­tute, Ascom’s devices have sig­nif­i­cant­ly improved every­day work­ing con­di­tions in the hos­pi­tal. They man­age alerts by pri­or­i­ty colour codes and intel­li­gent­ly send data to the nurs­es in charge. With the inte­gra­tion of a pri­vate 5G SA net­work, data com­mu­ni­ca­tion will be fur­ther enhanced, offer­ing high­er reli­a­bil­i­ty and no down­time, ensur­ing that essen­tial infor­ma­tion is read­i­ly avail­able with min­i­mal delay.

The pri­ma­ry focus of this col­lab­o­ra­tion is to test the com­pat­i­bil­i­ty of Ascom devices, renowned for their reli­a­bil­i­ty in demand­ing health­care envi­ron­ments, on Boldyn’s pri­vate net­work. Ini­tial tests con­duct­ed in Boldyn’s lab have been suc­cess­ful, demon­strat­ing the poten­tial for seam­less inte­gra­tion with the hospital’s exist­ing infra­struc­ture. Test­ing at the oper­a­tional hos­pi­tal, has fur­ther proven the net­works’ capa­bil­i­ty in con­nect­ing all devices and per­son­nel through­out OYS. Now both Boldyn’s pri­vate net­work and Ascom’s devices are ready for oper­at­ing mutu­al­ly in the hos­pi­tal. This scal­a­bil­i­ty ensures that OYS can adapt to evolv­ing health­care tech­nol­o­gy and ful­ly lever­age the poten­tial of Pri­vate 5G tech­nol­o­gy to enable advanced appli­ca­tions.

“Col­lab­o­rat­ing with Bol­dyn on the Hola 5G Oulu project has unlocked excit­ing new pos­si­bil­i­ties for our Myco 4 device, expand­ing its use cas­es and rein­forc­ing our posi­tion as the reli­able solu­tion of choice for demand­ing health­care envi­ron­ments. The devices are not only a valu­able com­mu­ni­ca­tion tool but also essen­tial sup­port for the hospital’s var­i­ous use cas­es. The robust per­for­mance of the net­work, com­bined with the consortium’s exper­tise, will undoubt­ed­ly con­tribute to our mis­sion of trans­form­ing health­care sus­tain­ably,” said Kari Nar­va, Coun­try Man­ag­er, Ascom Oy.

“This col­lab­o­ra­tive lab test­ing marks an excit­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty to unlock the full poten­tial of Pri­vate 5G SA net­works in health­care,” added Petri Parvi­ainen, Head of Sales Pub­lic Sec­tor, Pri­vate Net­work Europe, Bol­dyn. ” By inte­grat­ing Ascom’s indus­try-lead­ing health­care com­mu­ni­ca­tion devices with our advanced Pri­vate 5G SA net­work, we aim to push the bound­aries of inno­va­tion and devel­op reli­able com­mu­ni­ca­tion solu­tions. Addi­tion­al­ly, the inte­gra­tion of Ascom’s mobile devices with WICOAR’s AR smart glass­es will enable even faster data access through­out the hos­pi­tal. We are eager to extend our test­ing to more hos­pi­tal envi­ron­ments to ensure these devices per­form opti­mal­ly on the net­work,” he con­tin­ued.

The inte­gra­tion of Ascom and WICAOR’s devices pow­ered by a seam­less pri­vate 5G SA net­work, allows health­care pro­fes­sion­als to access crit­i­cal infor­ma­tion and col­lab­o­rate remote­ly in real-time, all while keep­ing their hands free. Ben­e­fits include:

• Enhanced com­mu­ni­ca­tion: Improved laten­cy and reduced han­dover delays ensure seam­less com­mu­ni­ca­tion between health­care providers, even in chal­leng­ing envi­ron­ments.
• Increased effi­cien­cy: smart glass­es pro­vide instant wire­less access to patient data and expert sup­port, stream­lin­ing work­flows and opti­miz­ing care deliv­ery.
• Improved patient safe­ty: Real-time access to crit­i­cal infor­ma­tion and remote col­lab­o­ra­tion capa­bil­i­ties can help reduce med­ical errors and improve patient safe­ty.

This col­lab­o­ra­tion between Bol­dyn and Ascom aligns with Hola 5G Oulu’s strat­e­gy to fos­ter inno­va­tion in health­care. By work­ing togeth­er, stake­hold­ers can unlock the full poten­tial of 5G and emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies to trans­form health­care deliv­ery. To show­case the capa­bil­i­ties of pri­vate 5G SA net­works and explore fur­ther col­lab­o­ra­tion pos­si­bil­i­ties, Hola 5G Oulu is open to organ­is­ing demo events fea­tur­ing inno­v­a­tive solu­tions that can rev­o­lu­tionise patient care. Hola 5G Oulu invites tech­nol­o­gy providers to explore its real-world hos­pi­tal pri­vate 5G SA net­work, whether to test solu­tions, col­lab­o­rate on projects, or dis­cuss the future of health­care tech­nol­o­gy.

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