Hospital Sao Sebastiao Improving Anywhere, Anytime Medical Services with Nortel Network Upgrade

Hospital Sao Sebastiao Improving Anywhere, Anytime Medical Services with Nortel Network Upgrade

The Hospital de Sao Sebastiao in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, will improve its patient care through an electronic paperless medical environment supported by a secure, reliable and always-on network with new mobile communications capabilities from Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT] Healthcare Solutions. The Hospital de Sao Sebastian is recognized nationally for the quality of its medical treatment and its technological innovation.

The new high-performance IP solution from Nortel will provide Hospital de Sao Sebastiao with the increased bandwidth required for new medical healthcare applications, like Picture Archiving and Communications systems (PACS), for improving real-time patient critical care in ways its previous network was unable to support.

“Our network will help us deliver optimum levels of care and allow us to explore new and innovative technologies to support a paperless environment,” said Rui Gomes, IT manager, Hospital de Sao Sebastiao. “Our hospital has a strong collaborative relationship with Nortel. They have always worked hard to understand our requirements, to supply us with the best technology available for our needs, and to provide a level of support that we couldn’t get from any other organisation.”

“Hospital de Sao Sebastiao has relied on Nortel to advise them on data and wired networking for the last seven years,” said Bill Weber, leader, Enterprise Solutions Iberia. “With Nortel’s Healthcare Solutions providing secure, always-on network applications that improve communications and collaboration, Hospital de Sao Sebastian is shaping the future of patient care.”

The deployment of these new medical services for the hospital requires an always-on network to allow immediate availability of medical records and critical information. This is ensured thanks to advanced technologies like Split Multilink Trunking (SMLT) that provides active and non-intrusive consistent delivery of data without loss and Quality of Service (QoS) to prioritize applications and service delivery elements.

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