Hospitals
Hospitals are under all circumstances responsible for providing responsible care to patients, especially during crisis situations. In order to be able to provide this continuous care, there are many plans within hospitals, such as for instance the hospital crisis plan.
Almost half of all Dutch hospitals rely on MultiBel as a hospital notification system to send emergency alerts to internal and external staff in case of calamities.
MultiBel has besides the usage as an healthcare notification system other applications that are implemented at hospitals. Examples are sending emergency alerts the emergency response team, sending alert messages in case of technical malfunctions or IT problems. MultiBel can also be used as a (NEN 2575-4 certified) silent alarm evacuation system.

Hospital Notification System
With the activation of the hospital notification system within the Crisis Plan, it is important that sufficient doctors, nurses, specialists and other officials are notified quickly and easily. MultiBel alerts tens of thousands of people within a few seconds via an app, in case there is no response, MultiBel calls the people on a maximum of 10 telephone numbers per person, email, SMS and messages to pagers. Until the person confirms or declines the emergency alert. People can give a time indication within how many minutes they are present. This can be followed in real-time by the activator. Different task cards can be displayed so that everyone knows what is expected of them.
Connections
MultiBel can easily be linked to surrounding systems. These can be “triggers” such as fire panels, emergency buttons, sensors of for instance cooling installations or monitoring software of the IT networks. The possibilities are almost endless. On the input side, MultiBel is often linked to existing HRM packages such as AFAS or Beaufort.

Olivier Nieland,
Account Manager MultiBel
MultiBel is used for all possible calamities within the hospital crisis plan, both for internal and external calamities. External calamities are often accompanied by a large supply of patients. Here the speed of the emergency alert send by the hospital notification system is of great importance. In case of internal calamities, your own infrastructure can be damaged and fail. It is then crucial that MultiBel runs externally in secure data centers and operates completely separate from the hospital infrastructure.
Whitepaper hospitals in the Netherlands
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Olivier Nieland,
Account Manager MultiBel