Versailles Hospital deploys wireless LAN
- 31 October 2008
Mignot Hospital, France, an 800-bed hospital that is part of Versailles hospital system, has announced the deployment of a wireless local area network.
The (WLAN) is intended to mobilise patient data and enable care to be provided at the bedside. Mignot Hospital hopes this will enable medical staff to improve patients care and, responsiveness and productivity. The system implemented was Extricom’s Interference-Free WLAN.
At the heart of the project was the mobilisation of the hospital’s Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS).
“Simply put, we needed mobility with throughput. Physicians need to be able to access medical information everywhere,” stated Hervé Paris, Versailles Hospital System’s director of IT.
“We needed real mobility without dropped connections while downloading large, highly time-sensitive files, and Extricom was the only product that could accomplish that. And the same infrastructure had to be able to support any other applications we might choose to deploy.”
After implementation by Airmedis, a healthcare wireless IT integrator, the Extricom WLAN was said to cut costs of digital imaging and boosted productivity, enabling doctors to do in less than two minutes what used to take thirty minutes.
