21. Apr 2008 00:00 12. Aug 2009 16:10

New and improved telephones

Portable telephones are important for communication in the new hospital. Now the telephones will be improved.

10. Aug 2009 10:47 10. Aug 2009 10:47

	New Wireless: Color screen and better technology, but the three side-buttons allow for the greatest changes. Top to bottom: Push-and-talk button, volume adjustment and microphone mute.

A number of changes in the IT and telephone systems will occur between now and 2009. The new portable telephones will arrive before the summer holiday. This will entail several changes sought after by many:

• Ring tone from a separate speaker – not in the ear. A patient signal will therefore not disturb your present conversation.
• Battery capacity is more than doubled.
• Volume can be adjusted. Simple up and down adjustment with the side-button makes it possible to adjust the volume while you speak.
• Microphone mute – you can speak to a colleague without being overheard by a caller. Separate side-button.
• New screen, somewhat larger, color and with much higher resolution, giving improved readability and room for more lines on screen.
• Better stability in relation to static electricity.
• Simpler to use.

- When I have more prolonged conversations from outside there is a greater chance that a signal will disturb the conversation before I am finished. I’ll be happy to be rid of that, says Aud Olsen in the Geriatric Department, who has tested the first telephones.

The telephones were first tested by a small group last winter and tried out by 40-50 employees beginning in April. According to plan, a complete changeover will begin at the end of May, when the hospital has approved the results of testing.

Information will be available via Kilden and internally from each of the clinics. It is considered a great advantage to be able to become accustomed to the telephones before employee holidays begin.

The present plan is to start with the Laboratory Center, and then ”roll out” (as it is called in IT jargon) through the clinical centers.

New menus with better functionality and a larger screen are being developed. A group of employees have worked with the menu, particularly in order to simplify warnings and alarms.

The telephone group will consider and accept the results obtained by the end of April, and ideally, these would be introduced almost simultaneously with the telephones.