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February 27, 2007

Aruba Networks Unveils Healthcare Mobility Initiatives

By Anuradha Shukla, TMCnet Contributing Editor

Aruba Networks (News - Alert) has launched initiatives, partnerships and new capabilities of the Aruba Mobile Edge Architecture that allows the secure implementation of multiple healthcare applications on a single wireless network.




Thanks to Aruba, healthcare IT can create secure, multi-service mobility networks designed to reduce costs and complexity while satisfying federal regulations such as the Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

In conjunction with application providers such as Welch Allyn, IntelliDOT and AeroScout, the Aruba Mobile Edge Architecture enables healthcare IT professionals to support key services and features via their mobile networks. These include patient monitoring, patient safety and workflow management, location-based services, voice management and control, and secure mobility.

“Healthcare settings provide unique challenges for IT in terms of mobility, security, voice and more,” said Peter Mongroo, global healthcare marketing for Aruba in a press release.

He continued: “Too often, this has resulted in healthcare organizations building separate networks to support each of these functions. The Aruba Mobile Edge Architecture was designed to securely converge all of these services on to a single mobility network, thus easing the cost and complexity for healthcare IT.”

Aruba Networks will enable the Welch Allyn FlexNet patient monitoring system to seamlessly and securely operate on the Aruba Mobile Edge Architecture through a joint technology and marketing partnership. The FlexNet patient monitoring system links multiple devices such as ambulatory wireless monitors and hardwired and wireless bedside monitors to Acuity Central Monitoring Stations.

Close collaboration between both companies has ensured that Aruba’s mobility platforms provide the reliability and quality of service necessary in conjunction with the Welch Allyn solution to support critical patient telemetry applications such as heart monitoring.

Under an agreement with IntelliDOT Corporation, Aruba will integrate its mobility infrastructure with IntelliDOT’s CAREt System, a bedside system that employs mobile handheld appliances at the point of care to eliminate medication errors. Both companies will provide an integrated mobile application that enhances patient safety at the bedside as part of centrally managed infrastructure able to support wireless applications within the acute care setting.

Aruba provides interoperability with products from real-time location services provider AeroScout. This enables better location- and status-tracking for high-end medical devices. Their collaboration allows organizations to securely run existing mobile applications and add location-based applications on the same wireless network.

The new Voice Services Module from Aruba adds many new capabilities to Aruba’s existing feature-rich VoFi solution. While many of these voice control and management features are enabled by Aruba’s application-aware architecture, all of these features enhance deployments of VoIP systems and handsets from Aruba’s VoFi partners such as Avaya (News - Alert), SpectraLink and Vocera.

Additionally, the Aruba Mobile Edge Architecture enables HIPAA-secure WLAN mobility for clinical data and voice applications within the hospital setting. Healthcare organizations can use the recently added security features to leverage the security infrastructure they have in place to support their mobility network.

Aruba has also standardized and simplified log messages for use with other vendors’ network security management platforms. Working ArcSight, a security and network management provider Aruba has developed an Aruba SmartAgent for ArcSight’s event management platform. The solution enables the ArcSight platform to correlate security event messages generated by Aruba equipment with messages from other security devices in the network. Healthcare organizations can thus respond to the right security issues at the right time.

Finally, with Aruba healthcare organizations can use their mobility network to offer Internet access to patients and visitors.

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Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet, covering call centers, CRM and information technology. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.


 







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