Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has deployed unified communications (UC) firm Polycom’s RealPresence video and voice applications, Microsoft Lync and BT networking technology to unify video, voice and data communications for its17,000 staff.
The new Polycom, Microsoft and BT application consists of a new BT network which uses Polycom and Microsoft applications to provide an unified communications platform.
It also gives the healthcare workers access to Microsoft Lync so they can communicate via video, voice, instant messaging, and presence.
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has selected Polycom because of its interoperability with Microsoft Lync.
The new platform will help the Trust make decisions efficiently in healthcare and use video collaboration applications to increase the decision making speed.
It can deliver services within budget, reduce operational costs associated with running audio, video, and data across the same network and offer wireless telephony application in 100+ locations, improving productivity and responsiveness for on-site mobile staff as well as delivering operational cost savings.
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust provides health and social care to 340,000 people in Belfast and part of the Borough of Castlereagh as well as provides specialist services in Northern Ireland.
