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 »

Enterprise wireless LAN equipment and management software vendor Trapeze Networks has inked a distribution deal with TESSCO Technologies, a value-added provider of the product and supply chain solutions needed to design, build, run, maintain and use wireless systems. As a result of this agreement, Trapeze, which targets healthcare and other industries, will gain access to TESSCO's distribution channels. 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 »

It wasn’t that long ago that the convergence of VoIP and WLAN tech meant dealing with proprietary equipment, weak security, and a lack of scalable network management tools. But, as an article in Enterprise Networking Planet points out, the VoWLAN landscape is changing rapidly with evolving standards, new equipment, and the arrival of some decent management tools. As key market verticals, including healthcare, contend with the rapid adoption of laptop computers, Wi-Fi-enabled mobile handsets and other devices, it’s easy to see why unified communications and videoconferencing specialist Polycom recently declared: VoIP is the future. Read »

Half of Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 have broadband Internet access at home, according to a recent Pew Internet & American Life Project study. Among those 50 and older, the growth rate in home broadband adoption from 2007 to 2008 was 26 percent. This rapid growth in broadband connections that utilize Wi-Fi is key to delivering the high performance technologies needed to support aging in place. Read »

The chasm that’s been known to develop between customer expectations and end-user reality can create barriers to broader wireless LAN adoption in the enterprise. Proactively managing WLAN security and performance optimization in order to deliver its productivity benefits to the entire organization is the mark of a Best-in-Class organization, according to the latest research from Aberdeen Group. Read »