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Samaritan Hospital Selects Siemens Enterprise Communications Group for Wire-Free Patient Zone
(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ANDOVER, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 09/28/09 --
Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN
Group) today announced that Samaritan Hospital, a 100-year-old acute care
facility in Ashland, Ohio, has implemented SEN Group's seamless voice and
data connectivity to provide secure wireless connectivity for Voice over IP
(VoIP) telephony and networked medical devices, including state-of-the-art
wireless patient monitors. The SEN Group solution serves as a reliable,
cost-effective unified communications platform for Samaritan Hospital's 750
employees across seven locations, empowering them to deliver better quality
of care to patients.
"Prior to the Siemens Enterprise Communications Group deployment, our
network infrastructure was best described as the 'Wild West': unreliable,
with limited visibility into access policies," explained Mike Miller,
network manager at Samaritan Hospital. "The hospital had goals it wanted to
achieve, leveraging technology, to provide a better healthcare environment,
but our network was holding us back."
Using a combination of HiPath Wireless V6 for remote connectivity, HiPath
4000 for VoIP, Enterasys C-Series and N-Series switches for the data
network and NMS Policy Manager software, Samaritan Hospital's 21st-century
network has improved productivity while lowering total cost of ownership.
The new network also delivers certified support for state-of-the-art
medical devices such as Dräger wireless heart monitors. The HiPath Wireless
portfolio ensures that life-critical information is prioritized over
non-patient monitoring data on the network.
The HiPath Wireless portfolio provides a cost-effective way for Samaritan
Hospital to deploy 802.11n solutions, delivering simple-to-use
wired/wireless integration while supporting a broad range of mobile voice,
data and location-based applications. The Siemens HiPath 4000 VoIP solution
delivers reliable, cost-effective telephony service that has already
reduced the cost of interdepartmental phone calls between the hospital's
various facilities. The Enterasys C-Series switch -- a high-performance
Gigabit Ethernet edge switch -- provides scalable, wire-rate support for
environments such as healthcare facilities that require complete multilayer
switching capabilities and support for high density 10/100/1000 Ethernet
ports, 10GE ports, and dynamic routing capabilities. The Enterasys N-Series
flow-based switch gives Miller and his staff complete visibility and
control of individual users and voice/video/data applications. The entire
infrastructure is easily managed by Enterasys NMS Policy Manager,
automatically centralizing all role-based access policies for users,
applications, protocols, VLANs, ports, and data flows.
"Since implementing the SEN Group solution, we have seen a significant
increase in network efficiency, coupled with a decrease in help desk
tickets across the entire hospital," Miller said. "The NMS Policy Manager
has truly been a lifesaver for me and my team. We have unprecedented
visibility into the network that has given us the ability to create and
enforce compliance policies that are crucial in the healthcare industry.
Implementation, configuration and everyday management of the network was
easy to learn and maintain, thanks to the support we receive from the SEN
Group team. Today, my small staff of two administrators can focus on giving
support to caregivers in the hospital instead of troubleshooting the
network."
About Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group)
The SEN Group is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise
communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security
solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify
communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration
experience. This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables
organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through
easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT
environments, delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation
for the company's OpenPath® commitment that enables customers to mitigate
risk and
cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The Gores
Group and Siemens AG, SEN Group companies include Siemens Enterprise
Communications, Cycos, and Enterasys Networks.
For more information about the SEN Group or Enterasys please visit
www.siemens-enterprise.com or www.enterasys.com.
Note: Siemens Enterprise Communications & Co K.G. is a trademark licensee
of Siemens AG. HiPath, OpenOffice, OpenScape and OpenStage, are registered
trademarks of Siemens Enterprise Communications & Co K.G. or its
affiliates. All other company, brand, product and service names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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Barry Cioe
Enterasys Networks
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bcioe@enterasys.com
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Michelle Barry
BridgeView Marketing
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