VoIP comes to healthcare units

Source: voipcentral.org

The Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust has now deployed VoIP technology to establish a strong communication network for the healthcare staffs so that they can make free or low cost VoIP calls over their handheld devices.

The Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust, a key organization of National Health Service (NHS) has reached out an agreement with BT to offer hosted VoIP service using NHSs N3 broadband network.

The deal is awarded to BT as part of the 12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). As part of the deal, the telecom giant will extend hosted VoIP service to PCTs three sites with more than 280 Cisco handsets.

The hosted VoIP service would converge voice and data on NHSs network. The trust will access to BTs hosted service as monthly rental fees. The trust workers will enjoy free VoIP calls and very inexpensive calls to their mobile phones.

It is first that healthcare units have adopted converged VoIP service to reduce their communication costs and build strong communication network.