We know the demand on care homes this year has been phenomenal. Many care homes have had to think outside the box in allowing families to connect with loved ones during lockdown. This all has demands on technology, especially if you are working with an obsolete system.  Here are the top reasons on why you…

Even successful products eventually come to their end of life. They are driven there by evolution in technology, standards, performance expectations, or the end of life of an underlying component that the product depends on.

The difference between the two frequencies on your care home WiFi are the range (coverage) and bandwidth (speed) that the bands provide. The 2.4 GHz band provides coverage further away but transmits data at slower speeds. The 5 GHz band covers less distance but transmits at faster speeds.

These are some very unusual times we are living in right now – we are put putting a huge strain on the internet as a whole, but in particular, we are stressing  WiFi networks like never before. If you’re not using one of our dedicated care home WiFi systems that guarantee excellent coverage, here are…

Cloud Hosted? If you have a cloud hosted system you are good to go! Remote working will be straight forward, as calls can be picked up on a mobile or desktop app anywhere. These are free of charge for all our customers with CallSwitch. For businesses with a traditional system, while calls can be forwarded…

In this blog we have compared internal antennas to external ones for the best in care home Wi-Fi.

We reported last month that one of the biggest challenges for this new decade, will be the ISDN switch off. As a result of this, over the last three years GHM have seen a shift towards Hosted Telephone Systems or upgrading to SIP. But what is happening in the marketplace for care homes?

As we approach 2020, what can we expect from Telecoms in the next decade? Well, we have seen much change since 2010. If you think back, this was when the iPhone 3GS was the height of sophistication, and so it’s clear that mobiles will evolve significantly more over the next 10-years also.

These top tips from Business Insider are worth considering for any care home mobile phone users, especially if you have access to confidential information (think GDPR).

In their latest audio interview Care Home Management talks with GHM Care director Simon Hayler about the company’s Nexus Care smart messaging system.