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whitepaper MedSTAR Transport provides air-medical and ground-ambulance services to tertiary-care facilities around Washington, D.C.and Baltimore and emergency transport to other area hospitals. To cope with a 25 percent growth rate between 2004 and 2006 and...
[06 May 2008]
Photo The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated ambulance service. For years the country has had no dedicated single number to call an ambulance, with...
[01 May 2008]
whitepaper Two Shire Ambulance NHS Trust was formed in 1993, following the merger of the Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire ambulance services. IT Manager, was responsible for sourcing a solution to his business challenge of providing an infrastructure that...
[04 Mar 2008]
News Hundreds of UK public bodies are authorised to intercept individuals' communications, including the Ambulance Service and Fire Authorities, the British Transport Police, HM Revenue & Customs, Secret Intelligence Service, the Security Service, the...
[30 Jan 2008]
whitepaper The Hampshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides emergency services to 1.6 million people. It wanted to update its existing network firewall, which delivers secure access to NHSnet, a channel for distributing patient information digitally across...
[18 Dec 2007]
Photo The East of England Ambulance Service is one of the first in the country to roll out the Airwave secure digital radio network to paramedics. Each line can be shared by a number of ambulance units, which means dispatchers can reduce the time they...
[27 Nov 2007]
whitepaper London Ambulance Service is the largest ambulance service in the world, caring for more than one and a half million patients every year. A solution was needed that would enable London Ambulance to simultaneously switch between multiple wireless...
[29 Oct 2007]
whitepaper Valentia Technologies has been commissioned by the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council of Ireland and the Dubai Ambulance Centre to deploy a solution for the real-time transmission of patient data from ambulances to hospitals.
[14 Sep 2007]
whitepaper Using Microsoft Systems Management Server software, the IT team at the Ambulance Service of New South wales can now update their 1,200 PCs without the need for a desk-side visit. This has streamlined their operations significantly as they are now...
[05 Sep 2007]
News The NHS has commenced the rollout of the Airwave secure digital radio network to ambulance teams throughout England, starting with East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST). Before we started using Airwave, it wasn't uncommon to have...
[24 Aug 2007]
News The Metropolitan Police Service will complete its delayed rollout of Airwave next month but the London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade will have to wait until September 2008 and November 2008 respectively.
[16 Aug 2007]
Comment Or the ambulance whose GPS antics took it - and I'm assuming a geographically challenged crew - miles out of their way. I was driving back to my quiet corner of southwest London on Saturday afternoon and passed Sandown Park race course, which I...
[24 Apr 2007]
News Its recent contract wins include a £115m agreement to kit out London Underground, a £48m deal with the Scots Ambulance and a £32m contract with their Welsh counterparts. After months of speculation private equity has finally snapped up O2 Airwave...
[19 Apr 2007]
whitepaper What his team has ended up with is a system that uses Linux to run five video cameras from the same kind of van used as an ambulance. When Pavement Management Services, the Melbourne franchise of a Sydney outfit, was granted a contract by VicRoads...
[18 Apr 2007]
whitepaper EMRI wanted to create an end-to-end system that would automate all the activities of a call center, such as reaching the emergency, ambulance tracking, and monitoring the patient care process. The Chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd.strongly...
[31 Mar 2007]
Comment Ambulance services are also pathcy - and much cover is provided by private hospitals. I watch one of dispatchers sending out an ambulance to a snake bite victim in a serious condition. There's a crash, with two motorcyclists hurt.
[05 Mar 2007]
News The business has secured a number of large contracts of late, including a £115m deal with London Underground and a £48m agreement with the Scottish ambulance service. The sale of O2's Airwave unit may be some way off yet, according to the mobile...
[01 Mar 2007]
News Under the deal, O2 will link the network used by the emergency services to the Tube's own Connect digital radio system, to allow workers from the police, ambulance and fire services to have radio coverage when working in the Tube's tunnels and...
[05 Feb 2007]
Comment Using MMS, those in accidents could transmit pictures of victims to help ambulance crews, or send videos of their location to help emergency workers track them down. The answer could lie in the grande dame of mobile services, MMS.
[22 Jan 2007]
News A new £390m ambulance radio system will improve communications with other emergency services and minimise the risk of interference with vital medical equipment. Work on the overall programme is "already well underway" with the rollout of the radio...
[27 Dec 2006]
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