Why VoIP is the Becoming the Telephone System Choice For Hospitals in the UK

For those of us who are all too familiar with the internet telephony and packet-switched networks, VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol is essentially voice communication, but using the internet network. This method of communication for business has many advantages: costs can be reduced by using existing intranet or Internet network, and systems are inherently flexible, with means for videoconferencing and network expansion will be relatively easy process. These are without doubt the preliminary factors that drive hospital planners to VoIP for their communication needs today.

one particular area that VoIP has proven to be suitable for a hospital the UK by being successfully integrated at the pace required by users. Derriford Hospital in Plymouth South Devon, began its upgrade to the computer telephony system in 2004, plans to have installed 6000 IP phones over 8 seats (including the largest hospital in the South West, as well as other minor works) 2014. The main challenge was to maintain the current system works, while installation of the new flexible infrastructure. Now, doctors and nurses over 60 percent of the seats can keep in touch. Once the system is 100 percent integrated, the next upgrade to the wireless phone handsets, which will also offer SMS-style communication with patients and staff.

Royal Manchester Children's Hospital has also improved its home in a communication system using Siemens telephony platform. The hospital serves children in Manchester, Salford, and elsewhere in the region in several places, and for some relocation set for 2009, has yet to be adopted to date system than exists already. At a time when a simple operation could be significantly hampered by the reallocation of labor, etc., the efficiency of the new system achieved an enhanced PC-based switchboard, which was faster and easier to use and modify it prior sustava.Priroda new telephony platform means it will be easier to maintain over next few years.

Perhaps the biggest move came when the East Sussex Hospitals Trust (including Eastbourne Hospital, Bexhill Hospital, a hospital and conquest) connected together in the last vrijeme.Cilj new trust was to establish a centralized operator to manage calls and voice mail all sites, in addition, a new integrated IP telephony services also include direct liaison with those who were alerted automatically by the system errors occur. It not only provides the full confidence of a comprehensive communications network, but that patients and staff may also have more confidence in.