Austco would like to invite you to pre-schedule a meeting in our booth at HIMSS13.

Whether you are new to Austco or have been a long-time partner selling our leading range of Nurse Call Systems, we encourage you to pre-schedule a meeting with:

• Robert Grey, Chief Executive Officer
• Nathan Buzza, Marketing Manager
• Clayton Astles, Vice President
• Aaron Rosler, National Sales Manager
• Jeff Humber, Regional Sales Manager

By pre-scheduling a meeting, not only will we ensure the right executive is on hand to meet with you, but you will also receive a sneak peak of our IP Based Nurse Call System, Tacera.

Yours faithfully,
Nathan Buzza
Marketing Manager

HIMSS 2013 – MARCH

Austco will be exhibiting at HIMSS (Booth 3487), March 3-7, 2013 in New Orleans. If you would like to schedule a meeting please contact;

• Robert Grey, CEO
• Clayton Astles, Vice President
• Nathan Buzza, Marketing Manager

We would be delighted to hear from you.

“In the hectic environment of the Med/Surg Unit, caregivers manage countless requests throughout the day.” stated Buzza, “Tacera provides your staff with the added confidence that they’re providing patients with high quality care and pain assessment via the Touch Duty Station and staff are freed from concerns about overlooking a critical duty.”

The Touch Duty Station is like having a Nurse’s station in every room. Care providers can easily view a list of every active call, in every room, to gain a holistic view of the unit.

Additionally, the units integrated VoIP interface enables care providers to answer and initiate calls from any room.

The Touch Duty Station assists caregivers in supporting the evidence-based practice of rounding by reminding them when it’s time to check in on patients.

Rounding provides more than boost patient satisfaction; it also:

• Reduces the number of patient falls.
• Improves the unit’s workflow by reducing the number of calls.
• Increases interaction between care providers and patients

Pain management is a key component in providing the overall quality of care for your patients. Since a patient’s self-report is the single most reliable indicator of the existence and intensity of pain, ongoing communication is vital to managing pain and speed recovery time.

Tacera helps caregivers establish and maintain the all-important element of trust with their patients by reminding them to perform regular pain assessments.

A “Wound Care” button on the Touch Duty Station prompts caregivers to check on patients’ wounds so they can apply dressings, administer pain medication, and assist patients to move in bed to relieve pain and prevent bedsores.

Wound care reminders can be dispatched directly to your facility’s Physical Therapy department or Wound Care group, according to the patient’s needs and internal processes.

By sending the calls directly to the appropriate wound care providers, nurses can stay focused on their rounding procedures, knowing that their patients are getting the care they need.

Austco will be exhibiting the Touch Duty Station at HIMSS (Booth 3487), March 3-7, 2013 in New Orleans.

Construction on the $2 billion hospital has commenced and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2015.

Mr. Clayton Astles, Vice President of Austco Canada commented on the recent order.

“Oakville Hospital will have some of the most sophisticated integrations of any healthcare facility in North America, including Real-Time Patient Telemetry, ADT, RTLS, Patient Flow, Wayfinding (Digital Signage) and Cisco Wireless Phones.

These integrations will ensure that critical information is reaching the right people as quickly as possible, which will allow Oakville Hospital to provide exceptional patient care and safety.”

It is expected that thousands of critical messages will be sent out every day at Oakville Hospital to their mobile devices.

Messages include notifications about medical emergencies (code pages), staff communications, security or duress issues, and mechanical problems in the hospital.

With so many systems in place, ensuring caregivers responsible for monitoring the different systems received timely and accurate messages is critical.

With RTLS and Patient Monitoring in place, Oakville Hospital required a solution that would integrate these key systems with other communication applications.  The goal was to automatically detect messages from the systems, filter them appropriately, and send the right alert to the right caregiver on the right device at the right time.

The solution developed by Austco enables alerts such as Tachycardia, Bradycardia, Arrhythmia, respiratory alerts and even SpO2 alerts to be dispatched to mobile staff.  Coupled with the universal staff assignment client, this makes the solution one of the most advanced solutions worldwide.

Australia / New Zealand : Austco Newsletter Q1 AU NZ

Asia / Middle East : Austco Newsletter Q1 SG

Europe & UK : Austco Newsletter Q1 UK

United States, Canada & Latin America : Austco Newsletter Q1 USA

Sedco was established over 40 years ago and is one of Australia’s largest providers of Australian owned, designed and manufactured products to the healthcare industry. Over this period, Sedco has become a trusted provider of healthcare and hospital communication platforms, nurse call systems, operating systems and services focused entirely on serving the needs of healthcare organisations.

Sedco has a broad customer base with significant market penetration with hospitals, aged care facilities and other healthcare providers nationwide.

The acquisition of Sedco will be supported by Azure’s wholly owned subsidiary Austco Communications and will assist in supporting Sedco’s 2000+ Australian installed sites for future sales and service requirements. Austco Communications has employed a number of Sedco’s employees, who together with Austco’s employees and Australia wide reseller network, will assist with servicing the existing and future requirements for Sedco’s customers.

The consideration terms of the sale are not considered to be material to the operating revenues or assets of the Azure Group. Further the consideration is commercial in confidence as per the requirements of the sale agreement and will be funded entirely from Azure’s existing internal cashflows.