Wireless Healthcare

10.05.2011

Doctors are just one part of CSMC's wireless Internet strategy. For the most part, Bacallan says the decision to go wireless was bolstered by the want to deploy more high-tech medical equipment that would require wireless data connections to function properly.

One of these medical equipment is called a patient workflow management system, which tracks the whereabouts of patients in each step of the medical treatment process.

"It logs patient status from admission to transfer to rooms, and even when they are taking various laboratory tests," Bacallan explains.

Traditionally, this is done on paper, through the patient's medical chart. But with such a system in place, hospital administrators would be able to gauge time performance of each medical employee and system in the treatment process.

Another system which could benefit from the wireless connection is a medical equipment which measures and deploys medication to patients.