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To guarantee wireless connectivity and coverage for mission- and life-critical applications, El Camino Hospital, in Mountain View, California says it’s decided to deploy InnerWireless’ Horizon throughout its new 300-bed facility.

 

Horizon converges WWAN and WLAN services and keeps mobile staff and clinicians continuously connected to the hospital’s main HIS, enabling them to access patient information at all times.

 

Scheduled to open in the second half of 2009, the 460,000-square-foot El Camino Hospital will deliver a broad range of wireless services to clinicians, staff and patients. El Camino Hospital Chief Information Officer Greg Walton said that it is difficult to find a more technology-savvy community than Silicon Valley, so it’s natural for them to take mobility to the highest level with a wireless platform that can easily bring on future wireless applications to help further enhance their care, efficiency and the patients’ overall experience.

 

El Camino wanted to build its clinical-care strategy around mobility, and the construction of a new hospital gave them an opportunity. Walton added that with InnerWireless, officials can saturate their new hospital with nearly any type of wireless signal, while being flexible enough to bring on the wireless applications of tomorrow.

 

The wireless ecosystem at El Camino Hospital will initially include 802.11 a/b/g and cellular connectivity. The system can be scaled to add many other services such as wireless medical telemetry, clinical carts, laptops, tablet PCs, pagers and two-way radios.

 

Ed Cantwell (News - Alert), president, chief executive officer and chairman of InnerWireless, said that there’s no greater compliment than having a customer expand their relationship with them, and they are proud that Greg Walton once again chose InnerWireless to support his vision for clinical care, this time at El Camino Hospital.

 

 

 

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