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Mayo Clinic Looks to Cisco for Mobility Solutions to Enhance Patient
Care
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Cisco announced that Mayo Clinic, the largest integrated,
not-for-profit group medical practice in the world, has deployed a
Cisco Unified Wireless Network to improve its patient care.
The network encompasses more than 3,000 Cisco access points, Cisco 4400
Series controllers and the Cisco Wireless Services Module for the
Catalyst 6500; delivering a broad set of healthcare mobility
applications to its population of approximately 40,000 physicians,
nurses and staff within its three U.S.-based campuses.
Mayo also will begin evaluating Cisco's 802.11n Aironet 1250 Series
Access Points to enable a broader set of new mobility applications
across its facilities. Cisco also announced that Mayo Clinic received
Cisco's five millionth Aironet access point, which began shipping in
2000. This marks yet another major milestone for Cisco in the evolution
of the enterprise wireless market.
In addition to wireless data access for its 5,000 mobile users, Mayo
has equipped approximately 1,000 users with wireless voice over IP
(VoIP) phones, enabling better mobile collaboration between doctors,
nurses and hospital staff, helping ensure that tasks like physician
information entry can be accomplished in real time at a patient's
bedside. Mayo has also connected a variety of medical devices and
equipment to the wireless LAN (WLAN) including 2,000 infusion pumps,
300 patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps and 100 pulse oximeters
that are used to monitor patient heart rates and breathing. Connecting
the devices to the wireless network allows doctors and nurses to access
vital patient information from wherever they are in the hospital,
improving their efficiency and resulting in better patient care.
Mayo noted that its reputation as a healthcare innovator required its
information technology department to deploy a wireless networking
infrastructure that supports the organization's overall goals of
delivering the highest levels of patient care, medical research and
academic education. With its Cisco Unified Wireless Network, Mayo has
enabled collaborative and productivity-enhancing applications for its
physicians, nurses and staff.
"Mayo is constantly striving to improve upon its reputation as a
pioneer in medical care, research and education," said Randy Regimbal,
Mayo Clinic's director of network services. "Our Cisco Unified Wireless
Network has become an essential foundation for meeting these strategic
objectives and has empowered our physicians, nurses and administrative
staff to dramatically improve the quality of patient care."
"As the enterprise wireless network has evolved from a convenient
access option into a strategic corporate asset, Cisco has introduced
innovations in design, performance, security and reliability that have
helped customers use the wireless network for their business-critical
applications and data," said Ben Gibson, Cisco's senior director of
mobility solutions. "We are committed to helping our customers meet and
exceed their business objectives by transforming their wireless
infrastructures into true mobility networks. In the case of Mayo
Clinic, we're enabling a broader set of mobility solutions that can
help improve the overall patient experience."
Mayo will begin testing the Cisco 802.11n Aironet 1250 Series Access
Points, as the clinic is interested in the enhanced throughput,
reliability and predictability afforded by 802.11n technology, as well
as its ability to enable new mobility applications that will continue
to improve the quality of care.
Cisco was first to market with an integrated 802.11n draft 2.0
solution, allowing organizations like Mayo to take full advantage of
mobility applications, and it was the first vendor to ship Wi-Fi
Alliance-certified 802.11n draft 2.0 products globally. Cisco continues
to accelerate the adoption of 802.11n with customer deployments across
numerous vertical markets including healthcare, education and
hospitality. With more than 50,000 802.11n access points shipped since
October 2007, and landmark deployments including Concordia University,
University of California at Berkeley, Duke University and Oriental
Bangkok, Cisco leads the market with real-world production deployments
that give enterprises the performance and reliability they need to
scale their networks now, while protecting their investments for the
future.
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