Collingwood General & Marine Hospital Makes Investment in Lincor MEDIVista Bedside Computing Solution.

Collingwood General & Marine (G&M) Hospital, Ontario, announced it is set to install bedside computers from Lincor Solutions, to provide staff and patients with access to clinical and multimedia applications at the point of care.

With Lincor's MEDIVista solution running site wide, the G&M system includes specially designed touch screen computers installed at every bed for accessing critical hospital management and diagnostic systems, while also offering a suite of entertainment, education and communications services to patients.

Lincor is a provider of bedside computing solutions for hospitals. Its MEDIVista solution, already installed at 20,000 hospital beds around the world, is designed to enhance patient care, improve the patient experience and increase operational effectiveness. The solution is based on the most advanced beside device on the market which is fully integrated with clinical, diagnostic and hospital management systems to meet the needs of clinicians, patients and hospital administration personnel.

"Lincor's MEDIVista solution enables us to provide reliable, secure access to vital applications such as picture archiving system (PACS) and patient records (EHR) at the patient bedside, supporting better diagnosis, treatment and management of patients," said Steve Soychak CIO at G&M Hospital. "Meanwhile the wide range patient-oriented entertainment, education and communications services, delivered on the same device, help to improve patient experience and wellbeing during their hospital stay."

"Hospital aims to be a high performing, patient-focused hospital serving its community by providing quality and excellence in patient care," said Richard Cooke, CEO Lincor Solutions. "By delivering more services and applications direct to the point-of-care, with MEDIVista, it is optimizing its investments in technology and infrastructure, while improving patient safety and experience."

G&M Hospital is the fourth Ontario-based hospital to install Lincor's MEDIVista solution. Lincor MEDIVista enables doctors and nurses to access patient records and clinical applications, and to record observations in real-time eliminating the need for additional hardware on the wards and the error-prone practice of re-keying information. The same secure, sterile, touchscreen beside PC also provides television, phone, internet, games, video telephony, educational content and hospital information for patients.

Lincor's MEDIVista solution includes applications for improving the effectiveness of hospital processes such as catering and bed management. It offers an ideal platform for distributing and managing patient surveys, whether they are required for regulatory purposes or to support business intelligence and patient relationship management. At the same time hospitals can mitigate the cost of providing essential clinical bedside access by generating revenue from patient entertainment and other services.

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