PriceSensitive

Austco Healthcare (ASX:AHC) wins $1.3M Singapore hospital contract

Health Care
ASX:AHC      MCAP $63.92M
15 December 2020 04:00 (AEST)

JurongHealth Campus. Source: NTFGH

Austco Healthcare (AHC) has won a $1.3 million contract to update the nurse call system for the JurongHealth Campus in Singapore.

The company will upgrade the Tacera Nurse Call platform that is installed in the 700-bed Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) and the 400-bed Jurong Community Hospital (JCH).

Austco was chosen as Tacera’s software is the only nurse call solution on the market that has voice over internet protocol (VoIP) to the patients’ bedside and provides a foundation for future products and services.

The Tacera solution will be integrated with JurongHealth’s Code Blue Platform. The combined technology will be able to deliver the fastest code blue rapid response of any hospital in Singapore.

NTFGH and JCH were the first hospitals in Singapore to be designed and built together from the ground up as an integrated healthcare development.

“We are aligned with JurongHealth’s mission of advancing healthcare by synergizing technology,” Austco CEO Clayton Astles said.

“At Austco, our focus is on providing innovative solutions, like our exceptional Tacera nurse call system, that delivers quality care and optimises the patient experience,” he added.

On market close, Austco is up 14.1 per cent and is trading at 10.5 cents per share.

Related News