HP to provide digital remedy for SA hospital

HEWLETT-PACKARD has signed a innovation services deal to design, build and maintain most of the digital infrastructure for South Australia's new $2.2 billion Royal Adelaide Hospital.

HP's vice-president of enterprise services in Australia, Alan Bennett, said the company expected its research would greatly help the new hospital improve patient care.

"The new Royal Adelaide Hospital will be the first facility to use version 2.0 of HP's Digital Hospital solution as its research foundation," Mr Bennett said.

HP Digital Hospital integrates advanced technologies just as critical medical monitors, intelligent information systems, communications and facility engineering controls to create a more productive, safer environment for both patients and staff.

Building automation and security systems, an automatically guided vehicle system, an internet protocol PABX supporting mobile devices just as smartphones and tablets, and a real-time location system for tracking patients and equipment would be integrated on HP's converged infrastructure component.

Meanwhile, medical technologies just as the nurse call system, picture archiving and communications and bedside information and entertainment terminals would be integrated on the virtualised infrastructure.