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RMH’s hospital of the future
RMH’s hospital of the future
By Networks Asia Editors | Sep 29, 2011
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PrintRMH Healthcare (RMH) moved into its “hospital of the future”, which was planned from the ground up, last year. The new facility is designed to improve patient care and safety; make clinical information universally accessible; and help ensure strong security and reliability of clinical applications.
That requires a universally accessible electronic medical record (EMR) system, a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) capable of distributing massive imaging files throughout the facility, networked clinical devices, end-to-end voice-over-IP communications systems, and more. To support this vision, they needed a next-generation hospital network.
“The network is the backbone of everything we do,” says Michael Rozmus, CIO for RMH. “We are heavily dependent upon moving data, images and clinical information throughout this organization. As we planned to have our IP telephony riding on that same network, we would become even more dependent.”
“Providing ubiquitous access to information was one of our most important goals for the new facility,” adds Rozmus. “Wherever a caregiver is in our organization, they should have access to the data they need to treat and monitor patients.”
RMH has deployed high-speed wireless coverage across every inch of the new hospital. The wireless network had to be just as robust as the wired infrastructure to support both voice and data communications.
The solution is Cisco Borderless Networks, an architecture comprising end-to-end Cisco routing, switching, security, wireless infrastructure, and unified communications. More than 370 Cisco Aironet wireless access points now cover the 630,000 square-foot hospital. As a result, RMH can bring a broad range of clinical services onto the network that change the way clinicians care for their patients.
“Bringing the nurse call and the network together has been a key part of our infrastructure design,” says Rozmus. “For example, we have tied bed alarms into the system, so if a patient who is a fall risk gets out of bed, that patient’s nurse gets an alert on his or her Cisco wireless 7925 phone.”
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I wonder if RMH would support nighthawk radiology technology. They should know by now that this is one of the alternatives for future radiology treatment. What do you think?