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Platte Valley Medical Center Deploys Wireless Telemetry Over InnerWireless
Infrastructure In New State-of-the-art Hospital
InnerWireless’ scalable, future-adaptable,
broadband wireless infrastructure provides ultra-reliable wireless
coverage
for multiple wireless services, applications and devices
RICHARDSON,
Texas
June 6, 2007
InnerWireless®, Inc., the leading provider
of in-building wireless solutions, today announced that Platte
Valley Medical Center will deploy Horizon, InnerWireless’ medical-grade
wireless utility, into the new medical center. Horizon provides
guaranteed wireless coverage for life and mission-critical wireless
services and applications including: WiFi (802.11 a/b/g), VoIP,
first-responder, two-way radios and paging. In addition, the hospital
will integrate WMTS (wireless medical telemetry service) from a
global healthcare solutions company along with Horizon to provide
ubiquitous monitoring throughout all four buildings of the 50-acre
campus.
The deployment of WMTS on Horizon means that
patient vital signs can be wirelessly monitored from anywhere in
the hospital,
even
during transport to medical tests and procedures. For example,
a post-surgery heart patient can be moved from the recovery room
to their patient room without interrupting heart monitoring,
thus maintaining a contiguous patient medical record.
By deploying
Horizon, Platte Valley Medical Center intends to create a safer
and more efficient mobile workplace by minimizing
communication and patient care disruptions caused by inadequate
wireless coverage and capacity. This provides clinicians and caregivers
the ability to communicate and wirelessly access information anywhere,
anytime. Instead of scribbling notes at the bedside and racing
back to a computer at the nurse’s station to update a patient’s
record, clinicians can enter information directly into a computer
on wheels (COW) or tablet PC in the patient’s room.
“Development of wireless applications for healthcare is
extremely fast-paced. We did our best to design the hospital building
to have the flexibility to accommodate and implement technology
opportunities well into the future,” said Harold Dupper,
chief financial officer of Platte Valley Medical Center. “Through
our vendor, InnerWireless, and the extensive infrastructure they
installed, we now have a comprehensive state-of-the-art wireless
strategy in place.”
To enhance the patient and visitor experience,
Platte Valley Medical Center also will deploy several hospitality-type
applications to
provide more amenities. These include bedside admittance, registration
and discharge in the emergency department, a WiFi café,
and WiFi access in patient rooms. Platte Valley Medical Center
also has a wireless paging system that alerts patients and visitors
when their doctor becomes available or when they need to report
to a certain area for a test, giving them freedom to visit the
Bistro and other public areas of the hospital.
Horizon will support
first-responder communication mandates made by the Brighton Fire
Department, which required the hospital to
provide full in-building coverage for the department’s two-way
radios. Whether in hospitals, enterprises or high-rises, Horizon
ensures that first responders can maintain communication once they
enter the facility without the need for additional wireless systems.
“InnerWireless is very excited that Platte Valley Medical
Center chose Horizon to be a part of its new state-of-the-art facility,” said
Rick Gentry, vice president of healthcare at InnerWireless. “It
is very rewarding to provide leading healthcare executives a technology
platform that supports their enterprise wireless strategy to enable
more efficient and higher quality patient care.”
About Platte Valley Medical Center
JOn July 10, PVMC opens its new $138 million regional medical center
on a 50-acre campus. It is one of the only community-owned hospitals
in the metro area, governed by a community board where decisions
are made at a local level. PVMC is the only hospital within a
16-mile radius serving the northeast quadrant of metro Denver,
projected to be the fastest-growing region in the metro area.
Its immediate service area includes the communities of Brighton,
Lochbuie, Ft. Lupton, Commerce City, Thornton, Henderson, Hudson
and Keenesberg. Honored as a national award winner for exceeding
patient expectations by Avatar International, Inc., PVMC offers
excellent nurse-to-patient ratios to enhance one-on-one care,
while utilizing an advanced level of technology. The original
Brighton Community Hospital was founded 47 years ago by Brighton
residents. The new regional medical center is located just west
of I-76 between 144th Avenue and Bromley Lane at 1600 Prairie
Center Parkway in Brighton, Colorado.
About
InnerWireless
InnerWireless, Inc. enables wireless coverage inside large commercial,
healthcare and government buildings with Horizon, its wireless
utility, a unified broadband distribution platform that supports
multiple wireless devices such as cellular/PCS, WMTS, WLAN, VoIP,
and two-way radios for security and first responders. Horizon
is scalable and future-ready, so enterprises can add wireless
technologies without disruption. The company’s other core
product suite is Vision, comprised of a location-aware platform
and applications designed for enterprise-scale deployment. Its
integrated location management solution allows organizations
to transform standards-based wireless networks and active and
passive RFID infrastructures into a platform for intelligent
applications that improve important business processes. For more
information about InnerWireless, visit www.InnerWireless.com.
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