Summary: Sonitor has integrated its MDuress software with Spectralink Versity 95 and 97 smartphones to enhance hospital staff safety. This partnership transforms the smartphones into high-accuracy location tags, enabling rapid emergency responses and improving communication in healthcare environments. The solution aims to reduce violence against healthcare professionals and address safety risks.

Key Takeaways:

  • Strategic Partnership: Sonitor and Spectralink partnered to integrate MDuress with Spectralink Versity smartphones, enhancing safety and security for hospital staff.
  • Enhanced Safety Features: The integration transforms smartphones into location tags using Ultrasound, BLE, or Wi-Fi, ensuring quick emergency response and improved communication.
  • Proactive Safety Approach: The solution enables rapid, targeted responses to emergencies, aiming to reduce violence against healthcare professionals and improve overall safety.

Spectralink and Sonitor, a provider of accurate real-time location systems (RTLS), announced a strategic partnership and validated integration of Sonitor MDuress with Spectralink Versity 95 and Spectralink Versity 97 smartphones. The solution is designed to enhance the safety and security of hospital staff, addressing critical challenges faced in healthcare environments.

Addressing Healthcare Safety Challenges

Healthcare professionals are five times more likely to experience violence than any other industry, according to Spectralink. Fast-paced healthcare environments also inherently pose risks, with slips, falls, and accidents potentially incapacitating staff and leaving hospitals vulnerable legally.

Sonitor’s MDuress transforms Spectralink Versity 95 and Spectralink Versity 97 smartphones into high-accuracy location tags using Ultrasound, BLE, or Wi-Fi, ensuring rapid response to emergencies, even outside the hospital. Upon duress activation, real-time alerts with staff location data are transmitted to designated personnel for urgent response.

“We are excited to launch our new SonitorMOBILE based solution, MDuress, with Spectralink. This important innovation will keep staff safe while improving workflows and communication with patients” said Matt Crane, chief commercial officer, North America, chief executive officer, Sonitor Technologies.” “We appreciate the visionary partnership we enjoy with Spectralink and our shared customers.”

Proactive Safety Approach

Spectralink and Sonitor’s collaboration empowers hospitals to approach staff safety proactively, according to the companies. The solution enables a rapid and targeted response from security, supervisors, or colleagues, directly addressing the emergency, improving outcomes, and reducing staff anxiety.

“Spectralink understands the critical need to ensure staff safety in hospitals,” said Doug Werking, chief executive officer, Spectralink. “Our partnership with Sonitor marks the next step in mobile solutions enabling significant improvements in healthcare worker safety. This powerful combination empowers healthcare workers with immediate help and provides healthcare organizations with a powerful tool to address a critical priority – a safer work environment.”