AirWatch has expanded the delivery options for its enterprise-wide Mobile Device and WLAN Management (MDM) software with its recent introduction of the AirWatch software appliance. By offering mobile device management preloaded on a dedicated software appliance, the Atlanta-based MDM provider aims to supply customers in healthcare and other industries with three choices: software deployed behind the corporate firewall, Software as a Service (SaaS), or a software appliance. Read »

The second busiest acute care hospital in New Hampshire is beefing up its wireless network for mobility applications in an effort to keep up with rapid organizational growth and an influx of new mobile technologies. Read »

SevenHills Hospital is standardizing on the Ruckus ZoneFlex 802.11n Smart WLAN system across its sprawling 17-acre campus in the heart of Mumbai, India. The technology is designed to leverage intelligent antenna arrays and dynamic beamforming technologies to automatically form and direct wireless transmissions over performing signal paths, away from interference. Read »

St. Joseph Health System in Bryan, Texas, has deployed a wireless LAN solution for implementing a healthcare information system throughout its network of hospitals and healthcare clinics across the Brazos Valley. Read »

The federal government's requirements for hospitals and health care facilities to transition to electronic medical records has prompted health care management company Clear Choice Healthcare to swap out its Cisco equipment at nine skilled nursing and assisted living facilities throughout Florida and one SNF in Denver. To support the leap to EMRs and deliver broadband access to patients and staff, Clear Choice has replaced its Cisco gear with a ZoneFlex 802.11n Smart WLAN system from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Ruckus Wireless. Read »

The Greater Regional Medical Center in Creston, Iowa, is stepping up its commitment to technology with the addition of a new dual wireless network that will offer public access to patients and visitors while granting physicians access through a secured network. Both networks will run over the same access points. Read »

Halifax Health Systems has snagged an InfoWorld 100 Award for deploying one of the 100 best information technology projects of 2009. Earlier this year, the facilitator of specialized healthcare services in East Central Florida deployed a wireless LAN with 802.11n technology as the foundation for wireless connectivity in its 500,000 square foot state-of-the-art medical facility in Daytona Beach. Read »

In a move to boost staff productivity and improve patient care at its four health care facilities in Westchester County, N.Y., Riverside Health Care System is implementing a wireless LAN from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Aerohive Networks. The new wireless LAN has already been deployed at St. John's Riverside Hospital-Andrus Pavilion, where it supports a bedside documentation application and will soon support a variety of applications, including bedside registration, drug administration and verification, RFID patient tagging, and guest access. Read »

An 802.11n deployment at the Boston Medical Center (BMC) was impressive enough to snag wireless LAN and secure mobility solutions vendor Aruba Networks a 2009 Excellence Award from TMC's Internet Telephony magazine. Located in Beantown's South End, BMC is a 626-bed hospital and academic medical center that serves as the primary teaching affiliate for Boston University School of Medicine. It also ranks as the largest safety net hospital in New England, reaching into the community as a founding partner of Boston HealthNet, a network of 15 community health centers throughout Boston serving more than 250,000 people annually. Read »

Wireless health. mHealth. MPoC, etc. There's no shortage of monikers for what the industry is getting at here, so let's accept as a given the fact that the future of healthcare is altogether wireless. Eventually. Fluid, mobile, efficient; hopefully, less expensive. But not until the industry clears the interoperability hurdle, which is why I'm excited by the idea of the ZigBee Alliance and the Continua Health Alliance deepening their commitment to defining interoperable communication standards for personal health solutions on low-power local area networks. Read »