From Health
facilities in Southern California, to Hospitals in
Chicago, modern medicine is embracing wireless
technology. In the coming years, experts expect most
hospitals will be as wireless as the most tech-savvy
Fortune 500 companies are today.
The healthcare
industry encompasses many entities providing medical
services including hospitals, urgent care and
medical centers, laboratories, pharmacies, MRI
facilities, and doctor’s offices. Providing medical
care has evolved into an information-intensive
process requiring access to shared information.
Hospitals today are using wireless networking
technology for an array of applications, from
pharmacies to operating rooms.
Information
Access:
Staff
are using secure VPN technology to log on to
locally deployed hotspots anywhere within
the facility, gaining immediate access to
vital patient information even extremely
large radiological or cardiology files via
very high bandwidth availability.
Physicians
now access patient
information, digital scans, lab results,
prescription drug information -- not only at the
hospital, but from their offices or their homes. The
objective is not simply a paperless environment but
to reduce errors and, ultimately, provide better
health care.
·Additional
revenue:
Hospital waiting
rooms, patient rooms and doctor’s offices offer a
unique opportunity to keep visitors entertained and
comfortable.
Often, visitors spend
much time in a patient's room with nothing to do. By
providing a
HOTSPOT
in your waiting room you can keep clients happy and
gain an additional revenue source in the process.
Each
HOTSPOT
location can be remotely monitored and can offer a
combination of free and paid access. By limiting
public hotspot usage to paying patients and
visitors, hospitals and medical clinics can tailor
WiFi solutions to maximize network performance,
customer value, and feature functionality, while
creating important funding for the network
infrastructure.
Track Patients:
A nurse places a
bracelet
around the wrist of a newborn baby. It has the name of the baby's
parents, as is traditional,
but this one also contains an emerging hospital
technology -- an imbedded
RFID
(radio
frequency identification chip). The RFID security
precaution is designed to prevent the mix-up of
children in the neonatal ward, as well as infant
kidnapping. Individual patients are being
tracked too, like those suffering from senile
dementia.
Pharmacists:
will be more involved
in day-to-day -- and hour-to-hour -- patient
care. With patients connected to wireless
networks, and their drugs tracked by
bar-coding, pharmacists will be able to
determine the proper dosage -- and exact
time to administer -- each medication to a
particular patient.
Point-of-care
Testing:
WiFi-enabled
lab tests taken
by technicians at a patient's bedside and
relayed to a central database in the
hospital. This enables efficiency and saves
time and money. The idea behind these
wireless networks is to provide healthcare
personnel real-time access to data.
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facilities in Southern California, to Hospitals in
Chicago, modern medicine is embracing wireless
technology. In the coming years, experts expect most
hospitals will be as wireless as the most tech-savvy
Fortune 500 companies are today.
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information, digital scans, lab results,
prescription drug information -- not only at the
hospital, but from their offices or their homes. The
objective is not simply a paperless environment but
to reduce errors and, ultimately, provide better
health care.
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rooms, patient rooms and doctor’s offices offer a
unique opportunity to keep visitors entertained and
comfortable. 
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around the wrist of a newborn baby. It has the name of the baby's
parents, as is traditional,
but this one also contains an emerging hospital
technology -- an imbedded
nvolved
in day-to-day -- and hour-to-hour -- patient
care. With patients connected to wireless
networks, and their drugs tracked by
bar-coding, pharmacists will be able to
determine the proper dosage -- and exact
time to administer -- each medication to a
particular patient. 
by technicians at a patient's bedside and
relayed to a central database in the
hospital. This enables efficiency and saves
time and money. The idea behind these
wireless networks is to provide healthcare
personnel real-time access to data.
