deploys Aruba architecture
healthcare professionals at The Ottawa Hospital are using more than 3 000 portable media devices to access electronic medical records and physician order entry systems at patients' bedsides, Media Caster writes.
The Ottawa Hospital has deployed an 802.11n wireless network, based on the Aruba Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) architecture, to support more than 3 000 Apple iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches used to facilitate decision-making and enhance patient interaction.
The hospital provides iPads to staff physicians, iPhones to nurses and iPod Touches to porters, security workers and housekeeping staff.
According to eWeek, MOVE is context-aware technology that allows hospitals to unify both their wired and wireless devices.
The architecture allows doctors and staff the flexibility to travel from room to room to see patients, while maintaining their network connection, according to Dr Glen Geiger, medical director and chief clinical information officer for The Ottawa Hospital.
At the hospital, doctors use iPhones and iPads to access electronic health records and computerised physician order entry applications, in which doctors order medication.
The Ottawa Hospital is the largest hospital in Canada for acute care, Market Watch says.
The hospital has 1 163 beds, 11 967 staff, 1 159 attending physicians, 3 886 registered nurses and registered nurse practitioners, and 811 residents.
The hospital's wireless network covers the entire 12 million square foot campus.
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