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Silicon Valley’s New El Camino Hospital
To Have Complete Wireless Coverage And Full Clinical Mobility
With InnerWireless
RICHARDSON, Texas
August 8, 2008
InnerWireless®, Inc., the premier provider
of converged wireless solutions, today announced that El Camino
Hospital, in Mountain View, Calif., will deploy Horizon™ in
its new 300-bed hospital to guarantee wireless connectivity and
coverage for mission- and life-critical applications. El Camino
Hospital so strongly believes in mobility that it chose to deploy
the InnerWireless system throughout the entire facility to guarantee
wireless coverage everywhere – even in the basement. Horizon
converges WWAN and WLAN services including cellular/PCS, 802.11
a/b/g/n, WMTS, pagers and two-way radios. Horizon also keeps mobile
staff and clinicians continuously connected to the hospital's main
HIS, so they can access patient information at all times.
Located
in Silicon Valley, the nation's cradle of technology innovation,
El Camino Hospital plans to open in the second half of 2009. The
460,000-square-foot facility will deliver a broad range of wireless
services to clinicians, staff and patients, who already experience
and expect the very best technologies in their everyday lives.
"You won't find a more technology-savvy community than Silicon
Valley, so it's natural for us to take mobility to the highest level
with a wireless platform that can easily bring on future wireless
applications to help further enhance our care, efficiency and the
patients' overall experience," said El Camino Hospital CIO
Greg Walton. "We wanted to build our clinical-care strategy
around mobility, and the construction of a new hospital gave us
an obvious opportunity. With InnerWireless, we can saturate our
new hospital with nearly any type of wireless signal, while being
flexible enough to bring on the wireless applications of tomorrow."
Walton
previously was CIO at Carilion Clinic in Virginia, which deployed
InnerWireless in three hospitals totaling 2.3 million square
feet of coverage for more than 1,400 corporate cell phones that
are replacing about 6,700 pagers.
"My previous positive experience with InnerWireless proved
they take a smart approach to mobility that caregivers appreciate.
You really need a comprehensive matrix for a smart, wireless hospital,
and I can't believe there's a CIO out there who isn't thinking about
this," Walton said. "InnerWireless will give our new facility
maximum flexibility when it comes to mobility. We invested in wireless
because we want peak, long-term performance from this building.
Mobility is no longer a luxury, and its benefits are setting a new
standard of care."
El Camino Hospital's new 300-bed, five-level
facility will include an emergency department with 36 beds and
a 10-bed observation unit,
16 operating/interventional treatment rooms and a conference center.
El Camino Hospital's wireless ecosystem will initially include
802.11 a/b/g and cellular connectivity, with the ability to add
many other
services such as wireless medical telemetry, clinical carts, laptops,
tablet PCs, pagers and two-way radios.
"There's no greater compliment than having a customer expand
their relationship with us, and we are proud that Greg Walton once
again chose InnerWireless to support his vision for clinical care,
this time at El Camino Hospital," said Ed Cantwell, president,
CEO and chairman of InnerWireless. "El Camino Hospital will
become a true Converged Wireless Hospital by giving physicians,
nurses and staff everywhere, everytime connectivity to their mission-
and life-critical wireless applications. It's exciting for InnerWireless
to be involved with the construction of another new hospital."
About
InnerWireless
InnerWireless enables today’s mobile workforce with the ubiquitous
in-building delivery of Wireless Wide Area Network and WLAN (Wi-Fi)
for voice, data, video, location and other wireless services – guaranteed.
Designed expressly for mission- and life-critical wireless applications,
the HorizonTM Converged Wireless Platform is the only solution that
guarantees both wireless coverage and signal strength. Horizon also
offers innovative capacity solutions, such as a next-generation
WLAN design for optimizing Wi-Fi quality of service levels. An industry-leading
warranty, low TCO and energy-conserving GREEN design make Horizon
ideal for the cost-conscious enterprise. In addition, InnerWireless
offers the PanGo™ Unified Asset Visibility platform to aggregate
and synthesize data from a variety of RTLS, RFID and sensor sources.
Asset identity, location and status information can be integrated
with enterprise applications to deliver a cost-optimized, future-oriented
solution for location-enabling the extended enterprise. For more
information about InnerWireless, visit www.innerwireless.com.
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