With the wireless connectivity, doctors can also access the hospital's clinical management system, which houses the medical history of all their patients.

But why did CSMC decide to go wireless, when all these things can be similarly achieved using a wired connection? "I can't imaging [having to wire] admore than 400 rooms!" Bacallan confesses. "We would also need to extend a wide pipe of =data link from the doctors to the hospital."

With such a set-up, the CSMC CIO said going wireless was the most logical thing to do for them.

Bacallan adds that they are looking into leveraging the wireless connection to deploy electronic prescription of medicines to patients using tablet computers, but that it may be troublesome since there is a "need for doctor to have eye-to eye contact with their patients [during prescription]."

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