Sprint Offers New Speech-Enabled Mobile Solutions
NEW ORLEANS - Sprint is working with key partners like Vocera Communications and Nuance Communications to offer speech-enabled mobile solutions that help hospitals, clinics, and other service organizations.
Sprint provides an array of mobile solutions that help healthcare providers view information remotely on Sprint smartphones.
Sprint and Vocera Communications will work together to extend Vocera's communications system to Wide Area Networks (WAN) by offering key Vocera functions on Sprint and Nextel handsets operating on both the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network and the Nextel National Network. With this new solution, mobile workers, including physicians, nurses and the hospital staff, will now be able to communicate with each other beyond the hospital building. Specifically this solution will allow a physician or attending nurse outside the hospital to communicate at all times with his or her staff wearing Vocera badges by using the walkie-talkie feature on their Sprint and Nextel handsets.
"We are enthusiastic about participating in a pilot of Sprint and Vocera merged capabilities and functionality," said Patricia Skarulis, CIO and vice president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering. "We look forward to the melding of Sprint walkie-talkie and wireless services with Vocera's hands-free voice recognition applications. Memorial Sloan-Kettering expects that this merged technology will allow internal clinical staff and critical clinical systems, through text alert forwarding, to reach doctors, nurses or other specialists anywhere in our ever-expanding network of clinical sites and metropolitan area locations. We also look forward to the integration of Sprint wireless devices with existing Vocera devices which will allow for greater texting and voice options both within and beyond the walls of the hospital. "
Sprint is working with Nuance Communications to introduce a custom speech-enabled healthcare voice technology that gives healthcare professionals wireless voice access to critical data including medical records. This new speech-enabled technology allows physicians to access current patient information such as medication, lab results, and patient status directly on their Sprint handheld devices, both inside and outside the hospital. With this technology, a physician can dictate his requirements directly to the phone and obtain current information. MEDITECH, a software vendor in the healthcare informatics industry, will be demonstrating this new technology with Sprint and Nuance at the 2007 HIMSS Annual Conference, Feb. 25 - March 1, 2007, in New Orleans.