Halifax Health's New Medical Facility Deploys Meru Wireless LAN
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[June 18, 2009]

Halifax Health's New Medical Facility Deploys Meru Wireless LAN

Jun 18, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Halifax Health's new 500,000-square-foot medical facility in Daytona Beach, Fla., will open equipped with a high-performance wireless LAN from Meru Networks.

The Meru virtual cell WLAN, based on the latest 802.11n wireless standard, will span all 10 floors of the new North Tower, including 180 private rooms and a 89,000-square-foot Emergency Department containing the area's only Trauma Center. It will provide connectivity for "Workstations on Wheels" mobile workstations that support such applications as electronic medical records (EMR), bedside bar-code scanning for drug-dosage verification, and remote video interpreting for hard-of-hearing patients.



Meru's next-generation virtual-cell WLAN platform outperformed other vendors' micro-cell architectures in a live test Halifax Health set up to evaluate performance, voice-data roaming capabilities, ease of operation, and equipment and maintenance costs for wireless in the North Tower, according to Tripp Sills, network architect.

"Many of our key mobile applications - Meditech EMR, Motion C5 tablets for clinical data entry, Siemens VoIP phones, LifeLinks remote video interpreting - are highly delay-sensitive yet need 100 percent availability," Sills said. "If nurses on mobile workstations lose their connection while entering EMR data, they'll have to reenter it from the beginning, losing valuable time. The consequences could be even more serious if clinicians can't use their mobile tablets to scan a patient's wristband and medical chart to ensure that medication is administered properly. 802.11n gives us the high bandwidth these applications need, but the assurance of seamless roaming is equally important, especially as we continue to roll out our VoIP solutions." ((Comments on this story may be sent to newsdesk@closeupmedia.com))

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