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Setting Up Wi-Fi in a Medical Center: Security
Setting up a Wi-Fi network in a hospital can be difficult. However, when the right steps are taken IT managers can bypass a lot of headaches and ensure a more reliable and secure network for wireless...
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Setting Up Wi-Fi in a Medical Center: Security
Setting up a Wi-Fi network in a hospital can be difficult. However, when the right steps are taken IT managers can bypass a lot of headaches and ensure a more reliable and secure network for wireless...
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Setting Up Wi-Fi in a Medical Center: Setting Up the Network
When setting up a Wi-Fi infrastructure in a medical facility such as a hospital, it is important for IT managers to follow certain processes to ensure a reliable and secure wireless network. In our...
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Setting Up Wi-Fi in a Medical Center: Setting Up the Network
When setting up a Wi-Fi infrastructure in a medical facility such as a hospital, it is important for IT managers to follow certain processes to ensure a reliable and secure wireless network. In...
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Setting Up Wi-Fi in a Medical Center: Performing a Site Survey
In hospitals, wireless medical devices transmit data that is critical to patient care. Whether stationary or mobile, these devices must never lose connectivity. Setting up a reliable Wi-Fi network in...
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Setting Up for Success: Reliable Wi-Fi Networks in Hospitals
Earlier this month an article titled “Care Connection: Ensure Wi-Fi Works” was published in the online magazine, For the Record . Written by Kevin Robins with input from the Wi-Fi Alliance‘s...
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Nursing in an Aging America [Infographic]
Currently healthcare in the United States is changing rapidly. Nurses in particular will be affected by the changing healthcare landscape. According to the American Association of Colleges of...
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Wi-Fi Healthcare Services to Grow in 2016- Drives Connected Hospital
In Connected Hospitals , wireless technology allows caregivers and patients to roam around the hospital freely while providing accurate and timely monitoring. Through successful wireless medical...
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New White Paper on the Future of the Connected Hospital
According to the United Nations, the human world population is expected to increase to eight billion by 2024 [1]. An increase in the aging population is also expected as advancements in medicine...
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Choosing the Right Wi-Fi Radio for a Wireless Medical Device
An article titled, “ Key Considerations for Designing a Wireless Medical Device ”, was recently featured by RF Globalnet. Written by David Hoglund and Chris Downey, the article covers what you...
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FCC's Wi-Fi Blocking Rules Apply to Hospitals
A few months ago, Marriott International made headlines when they blocked consumers’ Wi-Fi networks at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville. Following a complaint from an...
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Lessons on Designing a Wireless Medical Device
The new Laird whitepaper, " The Unique Wireless Medical Device Requirement for Healthcare ", covers everything you need to know on designing wireless technology into your medical device. ...
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Key Takeaways of New Wireless Medical Devices White Paper
A new white paper, "The Unique Wireless Medical Device Requirement for Healthcare", written by David Hoglund of Integra Systems, will be available next Tuesday, March 10 at ...
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Requirements Unique to Wireless Medical Devices
The demand for mobility and improved patient care is a growing trend in healthcare, leading to more and more hospitals making the transition to wireless. When dealing with sensitive data, it is...
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Chronic Disease Management to Drive Wireless Medical Device Market Growth
Chronic diseases and health conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and Pulmonary heart disease have been a long running issue for people of all generations. Throughout the past decade, a...
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Technology Improves Patient Care
By Jordan Manser, Technical Writer Advancements in medical technology have transformed healthcare and continue to change how it is conceptualized and delivered. Wireless medical technology allows...
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Engineering the Wireless Hospital: Mobility and Connectivity
By: Natalie Sheerer, Marketing Specialist In hospitals where wireless medical devices transmit data that are critical to patient care, it is crucial that these devices never lose connectivity,...
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Engineering the Wireless Hospital: Mobility and Connectivity
In hospitals where wireless medical devices transmit data that are critical to patient care, it is crucial that these devices never lose connectivity, even when the devices are on the move...
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Engineering the Wireless Hospital: Security
By: Natalie Sheerer, Marketing Specialist In its 2012 white paper, Wi-Fi in Healthcare: Security Solutions for Hospital Wi-Fi Networks , the Wi-Fi Alliance took an in-depth look at security for...
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Engineering the Wireless Hospital: RF Issues
By: Natalie Sheerer, Marketing Specialist In our recent blog post, Engineering the Wireless Hospial: Client Device Requirements , we explored the different types of client devices that typically...
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Engineering the Wireless Hospital: Client Device Requirements
Client Devices in a Hospital By: Natalie Sheerer, Marketing Specialist In a recent post , we introduced a Wi-Fi Alliance® white paper on improving the user experience for client devices...
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New Wi-Fi Alliance White Paper on Improving Connectivity for Wi-Fi Enabled Medical Device
The Wi-Fi Alliance® (WFA) recently published a white paper on improving the user experience for medical devices that use Wi-Fi® to connect to hospital networks. As with two previous WFA...
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Ixia White Paper: Testing Wi-Fi for Medical Devices
A white paper from David Hoglund, an expert on Wi-Fi in hospitals, discusses the challenges of ensuring that Wi-Fi on medical devices operates reliably in a hospital. The key to ensuring reliable...
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In Hospitals, Does BYOD Mean Bring Your Own Disease?
Datalogic , a provider of electronic point-of-sale scanners and handheld mobile computers, has published a provocative article on the “bring your own device”, or BYOD, phenomenon. In the...
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Formation of the CommonWell Health Alliance
At HIMSS13 (recapped here ), a group of the top healthcare information technology (HIT) vendors – Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway Medical Technologies® and RelayHealth –...
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HIMSS13 Recap
HIMSS , once known as the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, is a not-for-profit organization that seeks to improve healthcare through optimal use of information technology and...
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2012 Healthcare Mobility Trends
Mobility trends in healthcare have quickly become a widely discussed topic for medical device manufacturers and healthcare providers. Wi-Fi® infrastructure provider Aruba Networks recently conducted...
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Using Smartphones to Operate Proprietary Medical Devices
A recent study from Austin Health Clinical School at The University of Melbourne discusses how, when smartphones operate proprietary medical devices, doctors can have access to valuable information...
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Denmark Adopts National Telemedicine Action Plan
The use of wireless applications in medical devices is on the increase. Wireless technology solutions can make healthcare delivery more efficient, more meaningful, and more secure for patients...
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Interview with DocBox, Inc.® CTO Tracy Rausch
Many of today's medical devices generate data. Continuous patient monitors provide a stream of data on a patient's vital statistics. Infusion pumps report on what fluids are being pumped into a...
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Medica 2012 Report
Laird Technologies Medica 2012 Booth Laird Technologies' CPBU® team exhibited at the Medica 2012 show in Dusseldorf, Germany this past month. For over 40 years, Medica has represented all...
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Medical Device Tax to Impact Wireless Networking?
Welch Allyn®, one of the top medical device makers (MDMs) in the U.S., recently announced a 10 percent reduction in its workforce and blamed a 2.3 percent medical device tax set for the beginning of...
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Hospitals Need to Address Clinical Asset Utilization
A recent study from GE Healthcare® reveals that healthcare organizations such as hospitals are not managing mobile medical devices such as ventilators, infusion pumps, and telemetry units...