Survey says wireless applications growing in hospitals

Examples include cellular service, nurse call systems and patient monitoring


As health facilities continue to use technology to improve clinical and business operational performance, they're leaning more heavily on wireless applications and infrastructure, according to an article on the Health Facilities Management website.

Data from the recently released 16th annual Hospitals & Health Networks' Most Wired Survey indicates that electronic health records, wireless biomedical equipment and bar-code medication administration are becoming increasingly popular.

Significant increases were found in the percentage of organizations with cellular service, wireless nurse call systems, wireless patient monitoring equipment and radio-frequency identification systems to aid in asset and patient tracking, the article said.

Thirty percent of survey respondents have a single, unified enterprisewide wireless infrastructure that runs at least 75 percent of the applications. Nearly two out of three respondents employ a single, unified enterprisewide, medical-grade, wireless infrastructure that runs clinical and other applications at 99.9999 percent reliability.

Read the article.

 



July 29, 2014


Topic Area: Information Technology


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