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Business Wire
08-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Rauland Recognized for Digital Health Innovation in 9 th Annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards Program
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rauland ®, a global leader in healthcare clinical communications and workflow solutions, today announced that it has been selected for the second consecutive year as winner of the 'Best Clinical Administration Hardware Device' award in the 9 th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by MedTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global digital health and medical technology market. 'Winning MedTech Breakthrough's 'Best Clinical Administration Hardware Device' two years running is a significant milestone in our pursuit to deliver critical and advanced communications, workflow and life-safety solutions for healthcare providers...." Share Rauland empowers healthcare teams to efficiently manage patient care, communicate fluently, and optimize clinician activities from a singular interface. Rauland's Responder ® platform simplifies, streamlines, and coordinates both daily activities and critical patient care for clinical staff. In particular, its Responder Nurse Call solution has been designed with a clinician-focus to enhance provider and patient satisfaction. Rauland's breakthrough Responder platform is extended by a variety of hardware devices to provide critical communication access to patients and staff where they need it, including related to fall prevention. The combination of patient stations, pillow speakers, and staff assist stations creates a safe, more responsive environment that enhances the patient experience and nurse efficiency. Supporting clinical decision-making and helping reduce the cognitive burden experienced by clinicians, Rauland's staff terminal provides customizable workflow options to meet the needs of varied patient care areas. Responder Converge elevates clinical efficiency further by tailoring workflow options based on the staff member(s) present in the patient room and identifying the locations of other care team members as needed for quick, easy communication. Rauland's solution also provides a centralized, real-time overview of patient requests across a unit, equipping clinical teams with the information required to take swift action and communicate with interdisciplinary care teams regarding patient status. Integrating with existing tertiary solutions, including real-time location systems, allows instantaneous insights into staff locations, enhancing personalized information delivery and the ability to refine patient care strategies. 'Security, scalability, and reliability are Rauland's core pillars, and our teams continue working together to provide exceptional clinical communication and workflow solutions that help improve care delivery, staff satisfaction, and patient experience,' said Larry Ball, Business Unit Manager of Rauland. 'Winning MedTech Breakthrough's 'Best Clinical Administration Hardware Device' two years running is a significant milestone in our pursuit to deliver critical and advanced communications, workflow and life-safety solutions for healthcare providers around the world.' The MedTech Breakthrough Awards program celebrates excellence and innovation in the health and medical technology industry, recognizing the companies, products, and solutions driving meaningful progress and improving patient care. Spanning a wide range of categories—including Telehealth, Clinical Administration, Patient Engagement, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Virtual Care, Medical Devices, Medical Data & Privacy, and beyond—the awards highlight the groundbreaking work that is transforming the healthcare landscape. This year's program saw a record-breaking number of nominations from leading companies and startups across more than 18 countries, showcasing the global impact and momentum of the digital healthcare industry today. 'Rauland Responder encourages faster response times, improved safety outcomes, and better overall care. Given current nursing and staff shortages, hospitals are challenged to maintain critical communications and efficient workflow when staff are not in sync or in control. The result is workload stress, uninformed decision-making and poor patient outcomes,' said Steve Johansson, managing director, MedTech Breakthrough. 'Direct staff-to-staff and patient-to-staff communication improves staff efficiency and the patient experience. Rauland's Responder exhibits transformative capabilities that pave the way for a future where technology tightly integrates with compassionate patient care, empowering healthcare professionals to make informed decisions promptly and efficiently.' About Rauland Rauland is the respected leader in advanced clinical communications and workflow solutions for hospitals worldwide. Through combined hardware, software, and analytics its innovations and interoperability power hospital rooms now and into the future. Rauland supports clinical staffing, evidence-based protocols, and quality of care—for higher patient safety, improved staff satisfaction, and a sharper focus on timely, efficient responses to patient needs. A pioneer and continued innovator, Rauland has been setting new standards for integrated communications technology and superior customer service for more than 80 years. Rauland collaborates with value added resellers (VARs) to effectively address customer needs by leveraging their expertise in delivering tailored solutions, ensuring seamless integrations, and providing specialized support. Rauland is a subsidiary of AMETEK, Inc.; AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales over $7.0 billion. More information on Rauland's enterprise solutions for healthcare is available at on LinkedIn About MedTech Breakthrough Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the MedTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence and innovation in medical & health technology companies, products, services and people. The MedTech Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough healthcare and medical companies and products in categories that include Patient Experience & Engagement, Health & Fitness, Medical Devices, Clinical Administration, Connected Healthcare, Medical Data, Healthcare Cybersecurity and more. For more information visit Tech Breakthrough LLC does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our recognition programs, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with award designations. Tech Breakthrough LLC recognition consists of the opinions of the Tech Breakthrough LLC organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Tech Breakthrough LLC disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this recognition program, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Wayne State hosts first responder support program to help with mental health
The Brief Mental health is a big deal for first responders who see traumatic scenes almost every day. Oakland County officials say officer suicides eclipse line-of-duty deaths. Officials have created a free and confidential 24/7 support program through Wayne State. DETROIT (FOX 2) - They protect and help communities small and large, but first responders see many things that can affect their mental health. This is why many were at Wayne State University for counseling, over the horrific things some experienced. Why you should care Retired Detroit Assistant Police Chief Steve Dolunt saw a lot in his over thirty years of service. "I had five officers shot one night and one lost their life," he said. "I made sure they all went to counseling and I didn't go because, oh, I'm in charge and I don't need this." But he tells FOX 2 he did need it, as he says it's needed more now than ever, with police officer suicides becoming a growing concern. The backstory The issue came up Monday during a bi-partisan roundtable discussion on increasing public safety funding at Detroit Police Headquarters. State lawmakers and the top brass from many Metro Detroit police departments were talking about the issue in detail, including Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard. "You are seeing officer suicides that eclipse the line-of-duty deaths," Bouchard said. "We're at a high line-of-duty deaths but the number that's higher is suicides, because there's so many pressures on the men and women in law enforcement. There's so many challenges they face." Former Warren Police Officer Scott Taylor is part of the team counseling fellow First Responders at Frontline Strong Together, a free and confidential 24/7 support program through Wayne State assisting First Responders with trauma and stress. "The average person sees 8 to 10 traumatic events in their lifetime," Taylor said. "A police officer or a firefighter or other First Responder may see that in a month, may see that in a shift depending on where you work." What's next In part, virtual reality-type technology helps officers, firefighters and others deal with and overcome their job-related PTSD. "Say you are fearful of dogs. A safe way to get you unfearful of dogs is to put you into a controlled environment and make you think there's dogs around you. There's no dogs but in your head cause you got the goggles you are petting dogs. You are getting more used to spiders, if you're afraid of spiders. If you have anxiety of going out in public because you are a First Responder. We can put you in public, and you don't ever leave the room. It's a safe environment." It's the type of training and support Steve Dolunt says we need more of as soon as possible, just knowing he's been there. "You know what? I had PTSD for a while. I screwed up," he said. "But you have to accept the fact that you are not invincible."
Los Angeles Times
27-02-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
Newport Beach approves over $2 million for drones designed to respond to 911 calls
The Newport Beach City Council moved forward with the creation of police department's new drone program with the purchase of seven remote-controlled aircraft greenlit at their meeting Tuesday. A $2,176,037.60, five-year contract with Seattle-based BRINC Drones Inc. was unanimously approved as part of the meeting's consent calendar. It includes the purchase of a total of seven drones, the charging stations and software necessary to operate and maintain them as well as the cost of obtaining approval from the Federal Aviation Administration and other startup expenses. Six of the new aircraft are a model BRINC Drone that founder and chief executive Blake Resnick described as 'the world's first purpose built 911 response drone.' 'It's designed to take off from a citywide network of recharging stations and then hook into computer-aided dispatch,' Resnick said. 'So the second someone calls 911, we grab that GPS coordinate and then we use it to automatically dispatch an aircraft to that location. So we can respond to 911 calls with this technology in tens of seconds.' The drones can provide live surveillance of a situation without risking officer safety. Five will be spread out at strategic locations so they can quickly reach any corner of the city and will be operated by civilian detectives at the police department's newly established Crime Information Center. A sixth will be set aside for use by patrol officers. The seventh drone is designed for crisis negotiations and other SWAT operations. It's smaller and more maneuverable than the Responder model, so it's capable of going in and out of buildings and other confined spaces. It's equipped with night vision and thermal imaging technology and can use those sensors to create a 3D floor plan of any building it's sent to in real time. BRINC Drone offered the city a 30% discount on the list price for its equipment and services, city staff wrote in a report. Their contract includes a provision to upgrade the police department's drones to the company's latest models in the third and fifth year of the agreement. The new Drones as First Responder program is the latest in ongoing efforts to incorporate tech into the police department. In addition to opening the Crime Information Center in January, the city completed the installation of 69 automated license plate readers in October. Those constantly monitor the roads and automatically alert officers if a suspicious vehicle is spotted.
