Austria's first 5G clinics are located in Burgenland
Gesundheit Burgenland is also making history in the mobile communications sector: Austria's first 5G hospital went into operation in May 2024 with the new Oberwart clinic. The clinics in Kittsee, Güssing, Oberpullendorf and the headquarters in Eisenstadt followed in the months that followed. Gesundheit Burgenland is thus taking on a pioneering role in Austria and is also setting the pace internationally - there are currently only a few clinics in Europe with their own 5G campus network.
Fast help thanks to digital networking
Pagers and DECT telephony are now obsolete. All voice communication and alarms in the Burgenland clinics run exclusively via the independent 5G network. Healthcare staff are equipped with professional, handy devices that resemble a smartphone.
"With this solution, we are also ideally positioned for future requirements and technological challenges - both in terms of internal communication and for new digital procedures, processes and apps that can be used in hospital operations in the future," says Harald Binder, IT Director at Gesundheit Burgenland. "It is conceivable that the entire logistics - from patient transport to medication delivery - as well as simplifications and improvements in patient care and safety will be managed via the new system in the future."
Franz Öller, MBA, MPH, Commercial Director of Gesundheit Burgenland: "The hospital of the future will be based on an independent 5G campus network that offers maximum data security on the one hand and enables innovative healthcare on the other, for example through AI-supported diagnoses that require huge amounts of data to be processed in the shortest possible time. Gesundheit Burgenland is leading its clinics into the future with the help of these modern, telecommunication solutions with the aim of making medicine faster, safer and more efficient for everyone."
Magenta and CANCOM built an independent 5G campus network
In order to enable fail-safe operation, it was necessary to set up a completely independent 5G network. Martin Ellesch, Senior VP Managed Services at CANCOM: "Together with Magenta, we have implemented a private mobile network that operates completely independently of the public mobile network. The 5G platform used delivers highly available voice and data services in the hospital environment and is also an important catalyst for further digitalization in the healthcare sector."
"This project is a real game changer for the healthcare sector. Instead of the DECT technology that has been tried and tested for decades, we are relying on a forward-looking solution in which all users such as doctors, nursing staff and technicians only need a single end device with the applications required for hospital operations. This makes work much more mobile and flexible for users," explains Thomas Brezina, Director Healthcare at CANCOM Austria.
Werner Kraus, Managing Director for the business customer segment at Magenta, adds: "This is a tailor-made solution for Gesundheit Burgenland. The hospital network has dual redundancy and continues to run even in the event of a power or technical failure. Gesundheit Burgenland manages the 5G network itself in an "on premise" solution via the in-house IT department, also for data protection reasons."
In international cutting-edge medicine, 5G hospitals are still the exception. There are European examples in Oulu in Finland and in the German city of Leipzig. Gesundheit Burgenland thus joins the still very short list of digital pioneers in Europe.
Gesundheit Burgenland - Burgenländische Krankenanstalten-Gesellschaft m.b.H. was founded in 1992 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the province and has been operational since January 1993. Since 2019, it has been owned by Landesholding Burgenland GmbH (90 percent of the shares) and the province of Burgenland (ten percent). The head office of Gesundheit Burgenland is located in Eisenstadt. The Gesundheit Burgenland Group has around 2,500 employees, making it the largest employer in the province. The company generates around 22 percent of the revenue of the Landesholding Group and is the second-largest company in the Group according to this criterion (after Burgenland Energie AG). A new clinic was built in Oberwart between 2020 and 2024 and has been in operation since the beginning of May 2024. Gesundheit Burgenland is also planning to build a clinic in Gols in the district of Neusiedl am See.
CANCOM Austria (formerly Kapsch BusinessCom). As a leading digital business provider, we accompany companies, organizations and the public sector into the digital future. The range of services and solutions includes classic system house IT solutions as well as data-based digital solutions, managed services and cloud services. With passion and technology, we accompany the digital evolution of our customers and support them in reducing the complexity of their IT and developing new business models. We offer a holistic portfolio for all IT and business requirements.
Magenta Telekom (T-Mobile Austria GmbH) is a leading provider of Internet, mobile communications, entertainment and business solutions in Austria. The company has around 2,200 employees and generated revenue of around EUR 1.49 billion in 2024. The company offers ultra-fast broadband via fiber optic coaxial cable, fiber optics and mobile communications, entertainment and the latest technologies for digital life and work. As part of the Deutsche Telekom Group, the company benefits from the innovative strength and financial stability of the Group, which is also the most valuable telecom brand in the world and the most successful corporate brand in Europe. In the 2024 financial year, the Group generated revenue of 115.8 billion euros.