Healthcare

Safety and reliability for hospital WLANs

Hospitals are challenging RF environments for wireless LANs with lots of mobile users, staff, patients and medical devices. Lives literally depend on wireless applications. And with 24/7 availability, there is no room for planned service breaks. Critical wireless applications in hospitals include:

Patient Monitors and alarm systems
Defibrillators
Infusion pumps

As well as: Electronic Medical Record (EMR) technologies, Real-Time Locator systems (RTLS), Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) and VoIP for voice badges.

The 7signal WQA solution

7signal WQA solutions are the first to allow hospital IT departments to measure end-to-end connection quality for all clients on the network, whether using proprietary medical or web-based applications, video, voIP or e-mail. WQA fundamentally changes the way IT departments manage wireless networks. 7signal WQA solutions deliver comprehensive WLAN quality monitoring, reporting of alarms and proactive fault prevention for any vendor’s wireless network, of any scale. Installation is straightforward and surprisingly quick.

The first “healthcare-ready” WLAN risk management tool

The risks current IT networks pose to medical device performance have now been recognized by the International Standards Organization, which has issued the ISO 80001 standard to control risk in medical IT networks, including responsibilities, planning, management and documentation. Today, only 7signal offers IT managers the tools to truly manage WQA risks to medical devices in hospitals.

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How 7signal WQA impacts you

» Healthcare personnel

Our solution helps you stay connected and eliminates service breaks:

Device alarms can be trusted
All medical and mobile devices stay connected - all over the hospital
Patient records and patient monitoring information are always available
End of app errors - focus on your work

» IT management

Wireless functionality is central to any hospital´s IT-strategy. The growing number of wireless applications and devices in hospitals demand a centralized network monitoring system, one able to measure network performance from the “end-user’s” perspective.

7signal is the only company to offer true end-to-end WQA measurement solutions and the only vendor of solutions that enable the proactive control needed to meet the ISO-80001 IT network risk management standards. Our solutions help:

Ensure patient safety
Ensure that network capacity meets clients’ requirements
Minimize new network infrastructure investments
Secure functionality while lowering operational costs
Increase hospital staff satisfaction and productivity

» Network managers

With 7signal solutions, you can proactively monitor the entire WLAN and prevent failures before end users could experiences them.

7ignal solutions help optimize the network and, should a technical fault occur, the central monitoring system gives a clear indication which wireless end-user applications or devices are not working correctly. 7signal saves you your time and effort:

Centralized IT network management
Real-time visibility for wireless network, applications and devices
Automatic reporting and documentation to help meet ISO 80001 standards
No need to enter ICUs, Radiology or restricted areas for WLAN troubleshooting
Run patient-critical applications in WLAN, with 24/7 automated quality management