Wireless Solutions for Healthcare

Solutions for medium healthcare organizations

Wireless technology offers amazing new opportunities in the healthcare profession. In the ER, in the lab, at the bedside… you can enhance patient care with on-the-spot access to vital data. And monitor valuable assets. Introduce cellular and WIFI networks into your campus setting to improve communications. Collaborate more efficiently. Generate new revenues.

The advantage

With the demand to keep up with improved healthcare services and the growing demographic population, healthcare organizations are looking for solutions that will decrease their operating costs and improve patient care and safety. One of the most effective ways to address this goal is to improve operational efficiency.

IBM and IBM Business Partners can provide turnkey wireless solutions—including software, hardware, services and training—to help you do just that. We can offer:

Wireless pervasive devices that offer physicians and staff point of care solutions
Enhanced healthcare campus solutions that include in-building cellular infrastructure and integration of wireless devices
Wireless infrastructure services that provide wireless planning, technical site surveys for installation, design and configuration specifications, and implementation
RFID and Smart Card SecureID technology that enable you to track the movement of devices and supplies across an enterprise, to track the movement of newborn babies and Alzheimer patients or merely to restrict access to unauthorized areas or prevent the theft of hospital supplies

Benefits

Wireless solutions maximize productivity and the reach of your healthcare IT infrastructure. They can help you to:

Improve patient satisfaction, care, and safety by
- Bringing critical information to the point of patient care
- Allowing physicians to access patient history when away from the hospital
- Protecting patient information in a wireless environment
- Improving accuracy as well as employee accountability when dispensing drugs
Increase physician and nurse productivity by reducing paperwork and manual workflow
Track medical supplies from the factory to storage shelves, enabling efficient inventory management

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See how you can benefit from using wireless.

IBM, Motorola, Syclo and Zebra: Driving efficiency with connected field service workers (392KB)

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