NEWS
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust
quickly responds to COVID-19 with Citrix
COVID-19 hit fast, and Gloucestershire
Hospitals NHS Trust was equally quick
to respond. When government mandates
forced the trust to move staff and patient
clinics off the main hospital site, it moved
quickly to enable 2,000 employees to
work from home and continue providing
essential services. And with the help of
Citrix Systems, it was up and running in less
than two days.
“We had to move all our staff out and rapidly
transition as many services as we could to
remote delivery,” said Mark Hutchinson,
Executive Chief Digital Information Officer
(CDIO) for the trust. “But that’s easier said
than done.”
Many hospitals in the same situation rushed
to buy hundreds of laptops to support their
teams. The trust went a different route.
“We didn’t want to just buy hundreds of
expensive laptops that we’d have to set up,
distribute out to staff who need them most
and then have the challenge of counting
them all back in,” Hutchinson said.
The trust chose instead to work with Citrix
Gold Solution Advisor LIMA to implement
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and
provide secure, reliable access to the clinical
apps and information employees would
need to do their jobs from home using
personal devices.
All the trust’s support and patient
administration services now operate
remotely through a virtual desktop on the
devices of their choice – from Macs to PCs.
Teleste to supply information displays and
passenger information system for Braunschweig
Transit Authority in Germany
displays as well as Teleste’s passenger information system for its
management. In addition, all the included stops will be equipped
with text-to-speech buttons and loudspeakers announcing the
displayed information for visually impaired passengers.
Teleste Corporation will carry out information display deployment
for Braunschweig Transit Authority (Regionalverband Großraum
Braunschweig) in Germany, together with the company’s local
subsidiary iqu Systems. The project will be completed by March 2022,
and it will include harnessing the entire tram network and selected
bus stops in the city of Braunschweig with 243 monochrome LED
“We, at Teleste, are pleased that Braunschweig Transit Authority
has trusted our solution and capabilities in upgrading information
infrastructure across its transport network in the city. While public
transport is becoming the number one form of urban mobility for
many citizens, the passengers are also expecting easy and safe travel
across the city-wide transport systems. It is clear that the right travel
information needs to be available when and where the passengers
need it. Investing in real time information infrastructures ensures that
operators will be able to meet the passengers’ expectations in an
efficient and flexible manner,” said Stephan Brünig, Head of Teleste’s
Public Transport Operators Business.
Teleste’s passenger information system includes versatile modules
designed for the management of passenger information, media
content, displays and fleets across public transport systems of various
sizes and demands.
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