Healthcare Organizations Can Leverage WLAN Infrastructure to Improve
Patient Care with Visibility into Location of Medical Equipment and
Personnel
WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Colubris Networks, the leading global provider of intelligent wireless LANs (WLANs) for enterprises and service providers, today announced that the company is working with AeroScout, Inc., the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility solutions, to allow organizations to track high-value equipment, mobile devices, patients and personnel via a Colubris wireless network. Current and future Colubris healthcare customers will be able to easily utilize AeroScout's real-time location solution (RTLS) to maximize patient safety, more effectively use equipment, improve business processes and enhance patient care.
The need for instantaneous communication and data accuracy is critical in the healthcare industry and hospitals, physicians' offices and healthcare clinics are relying more and more on wireless networks to provide caregivers with anywhere, anytime access to key clinical applications, electronic medical records and patient status updates. To provide responsive, high-quality patient care, healthcare organizations also require real-time visibility into the location of their assets and staff, across all departments.
The Colubris and AeroScout agreement provides organizations with a
cost- effective way to implement location-based services by leveraging
existing WLAN investments and eliminating the need to purchase a separate
stand-alone asset tracking solution. Colubris MultiService Access Points
(MAPs) communicate directly with the AeroScout Engine to produce reliable
location and presence data for assets tagged with AeroScout's Wi-Fi based
Active RFID tags. This means that organizations can use a single WLAN
infrastructure for voice, video and data applications, as well as advanced
location services, extending wire
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