Is the push to go paperless driving healthcare's adoption of smarter Wi-Fi technologies? Well, yes--that plus the industry's increasing demand for more reliable wireless networks that deliver solid, wide-area coverage to support the kinds of devices, services and apps that are key to higher quality patient care delivery and increased patient and staff satisfaction. Read »

New research from ABI indicates the uptake of Wi-Fi within healthcare has spiked 60 percent over the past 12 months in both wireless LAN and Wi-Fi RTLS deployments. Better yet, the research suggests this trend may continue with high double-digit growth, at least for the medium term. Read »

Member hospitals of one of the largest private healthcare groups in Portugal are installing Ekahau's RTLS solution to enable mobile patients to call for a nurse and to provide emergency notification for staff members, among other purposes. Espirito Santo Saude (ESSAUDE), which consists of 15 healthcare units and two assisted living residences, expects the wireless RTLS offering to enhance safety and quality of care while boosting overall patient satisfaction levels. Read »

U.K.-based Airetrak, a provider of Wi-Fi based real time locating systems for the healthcare sector, has enhanced its ResourceView information solution with Wi-Fi Temperature Monitoring functionality. Read »

Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., has joined the growing ranks of hospitals nationwide that are leveraging their Wi-Fi networks for data and voice communications. Read »

Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma, La., is reporting an increase in responsiveness to compliance standards since implementing the condition monitoring feature that Trapeze Networks rolled out earlier this month as an addition to its ActiveAsset tracking and management application. The new feature extends the app's tracking capability to help users meet regulatory requirements for monitoring temperature fluctuations of medical refrigeration and freezer units. Read »

Ekahau is expanding its hardware line with what company officials are calling an industry first--a wristband format Wi-Fi tag. The Wi-Fi-based RTLS vendor just unveiled the T301W, a wristband tag that is designed for use in applications that determine the precise location of people in hospitals and other settings. Combined with the recently launched Ekahau room and bed beacons, the wristband tags guarantee precise location capabilities down to less than a few feet. Read »

Telehealth has garnered a lot of positive press lately, but the hits just keep on coming. The latest success story concerns a 61-year-old New York woman, who just made history as the first person in the United States to be implanted with a pacemaker containing a wireless home monitoring system that transmits critical information to her doctor via the Internet. Read »

All vendors talk of capturing market share from competitors, but Aruba Networks' move to garner more than 20 percent of the wireless local area network market over the next 12 to 24 months is based on a string of recent successes that can't be ignored. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, which draws more than 20 percent of its revenue from non-traditional enterprises such as healthcare and education, is betting the farm on the 802.11n standard. Read »

The energy shortage and out-of-control healthcare spending have governments and the private sector scrambling to develop smart technologies such as Wireless Sensor Networking (WSN), according to market research firm ON World, which predicts that in 2012 global WSN products and services for the smart home will be worth $6 billion. Read »