NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JOANIE WEXLER ON WIRELESS IN THE ENTERPRISE 11/03/04 Today's focus: Health system saves 16,000 hours/year with wireless
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Wireless helps home caregivers do better job * Links related to Wireless in the Enterprise * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored Colubris Networks Mobility is enabling productivity, lower cost and new revenue for a growing list of data, voice, and video applications. While early WLANs targeted islands of Wi-Fi users, the next step requires an "Enterprise-class WLAN" -- one that seamlessly integrates into existing networks with security, QoS, and scale. For more on "Building Next-generation Enterprise-class Wireless LANs" please visit http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=86038 _______________________________________________________________ NW TECHNOLOGY INSIDER: STORAGE ILM With real benefits in terms of saving money and making business run more smoothly, information lifecycle management deserves a closer look. In this in-depth technology review, we profile users who are on the cutting edge of ILM and describe how ILM can be one of the building blocks of the new data center. Click here: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=86094 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Health system saves 16,000 hours/year with wireless By Joanie Wexler Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Meyers, Fla., is using wireless laptops and 1XRTT cellular data services from Sprint to improve patient care and reduce the administrative burden on some 80 home-health workers. The real-time nature of the wireless network saves each employee about an hour a day - or an expected total of 16,000 hours per year. But only because at the heart of the setup is NetMotion Wireless Mobility XE client/server internetwork roaming and management software, which contributes AES encryption to the configuration. Nurses, therapists, aides and other caregivers can securely upload and download patient information in and out of remote electronic charts instead of bouncing back and forth from the hospital to do so, says Bob Votta, director of network technical services at the three-facility acute care hospital system. "Traditional VPN solutions were bulky. The NetMotion software gives a direct connection from a worker's laptop to our network that's encrypted and meets HIPAA [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] requirements. It is transparent whether users are inside or outside the walls of our building," Votta says. Because patient information must remain secure, sometimes workers couldn't even make a phone call to find out what they needed to know - such as possible drug interactions with an existing medication a patient might be taking, he explains. This often resulted in rescheduled visits, which hindered patient care and increased costs. Lee Memorial has been generally increasing home care, both to make patients more comfortable and to reduce inpatient costs, Votta says. The hospital upgraded its clinical and financial computing platforms for home health workers last May to give them more ready access to patient information and to help avoid paper-based or cumbersome dial-up patient chart entry. In the past, says Jim Krouse, senior network engineer, caregivers would try to sidestep a hospital visit by dialing into remote-access servers from their own homes after work and launching an upload off an automatic script. "But that was problematic. They're not computer people and often couldn't tell if the transfer worked. We wanted to get rid of that scenario," he says. NetMotion Mobility allows application persistence among IP networks regardless of the underlying wireless or wired medium. Caregivers then, could roam from the cellular WAN to an 802.11-based wireless LAN, for example, with no interruption in their application. In addition to using Sprint's CDMA-based 1XRTT service Lee Memorial has been installing Airespace 802.11a/b/g wireless LANs for the past two years. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Taking business apps on the road and accessing them wirelessly Network World, 08/23/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2004/ndc5/082304ontheroad.html Mobile wars intensify Network World Wireless in the Enterprise Newsletter, 10/04/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/nlwir806 Sprint to push mobile WANs closer to 3G Network World Wireless in the Enterprise Newsletter, 06/28/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/nlwir453 _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Joanie Wexler Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer networking industry. 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