Cisco suite extends clinical communications network
Cisco UK, based in Feltham, Middlesex, has added to its Cisco
Medical-Grade Network, with a suite of tools intended to improve
clinical workflow by facilitating better communication between patients
and clinicians.
The Cisco Medical-Grade Network is a comprehensive integrated
infrastructure that combines lifecycle services with application
delivery. Within this context, the Cisco Clinical Connection Suite
delivers four new applications — Nurse Call, Patient Monitoring,
Location-based Services and Collaborative Care.
Nurse Call uses wired or wireless devices for direct, real-time
communications between clinicians and patients or mobile colleagues;
Patient Monitoring delivers real-time alerts and patient status
information — via text or waveform transmission — to any wired or
wireless IP device; Location-based Services uses WiFi and radio
frequency identification systems (RFID) technology to allow hospitals to
track and locate key assets; Collaborative Care uses, among other
technologies, video-based applications to provide ad hoc collaboration
between staff to, for example, speed up diagnosis.
According to Pierre-Paul Allard, Vice President of Enterprise Marketing
for Cisco: “Improving clinical workflow is a major need that has not
been adequately addressed by today’s IT solutions.
Building on the Cisco medical-grade network, the Cisco Clinical
Connection Suite is helping hospitals around the world, such as Boston
Medical Center and St Olav’s in Norway, by simplifying and speeding the
communications process.”
Source: bjhc&im December 2005
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