Gesundheit Burgenland has taken a major step in mobile communications by implementing Austria’s first 5G hospital network. The new Oberwart clinic became the country’s first 5G hospital in May 2024, with clinics in Kittsee, Güssing, and Oberpullendorf, as well as the headquarters in Eisenstadt, following shortly after. This initiative positions Gesundheit Burgenland as a digital pioneer, with only a few hospitals in Europe currently operating private 5G campus networks.
Gesundheit Burgenland has taken a major step in mobile communications by implementing Austria’s first 5G hospital network. The new Oberwart clinic became the country’s first 5G hospital in May 2024, with clinics in Kittsee, Güssing, and Oberpullendorf, as well as the headquarters in Eisenstadt, following shortly after. This initiative positions Gesundheit Burgenland as a digital pioneer, with only a few hospitals in Europe currently operating private 5G campus networks.
According to Harald Binder, IT Director of Gesundheit Burgenland, the 5G network is designed to meet future healthcare needs. Potential applications include optimizing logistics, improving patient transport, and enhancing safety measures. Commercial Director Franz Öller highlighted that standalone 5G networks offer high data security and enable cutting-edge healthcare solutions, such as AI-supported diagnostics requiring real-time data processing.
Magenta and CANCOM Austria collaborated to build the independent 5G network, ensuring reliability and operational security. Martin Ellesch, Senior VP Managed Services at CANCOM, emphasized that this private mobile network functions separately from public infrastructure, providing robust voice and data services tailored for hospital environments.
Harald Binder, IT Director, Gesundheit Burgenland
With this solution, we are ideally positioned for future requirements and technological challenges – both in internal communications and for new digital workflows, processes, and apps that can be used in hospital operations in the future. It is conceivable that in the future, the entire logistics process – from patient transport to medication delivery – as well as simplifications and improvements in patient care and safety will be managed via the new system.
Franz Öller, Commercial Director, Gesundheit Burgenland
The hospital of the future will be built on a standalone 5G campus network that, on the one hand, boasts the highest data security, and, on the other, enables innovative healthcare, for example, through AI-supported diagnostics, which require processing huge amounts of data within a very short time. Gesundheit Burgenland is leading its clinics into the future with the help of these modern, telecommunications solutions, with the aim of making medicine faster, safer, and more efficient for everyone.
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 deployed delivers highly available voice and data services in hospital environments and also represents an important catalyst for further digitalization in healthcare.
Thomas Brezina, Director of Healthcare at CANCOM Austria
This project is a true game changer for the healthcare sector. Instead of decades of proven DECT technology, we are relying on a future-oriented solution in which all users, such as doctors, nursing staff, and technicians, only need a single device with the applications required for hospital operations. This makes work significantly more mobile and flexible for users.
Werner Kraus, Managing Director of Magenta's Business Customers segment
This is a tailor-made solution for Gesundheit Burgenland. The hospital network has dual redundancy and continues to operate even in the event of a power or technical failure. Gesundheit Burgenland manages the 5G network itself in a so-called "on-premise" solution via its in-house IT department, also for data protection reasons.