Healthcare Industry Sees Major Shift to Smarter Wi-Fi Technology

Ruckus Wireless has been selected by 15 new healthcare facilities, hospitals and clinics in the U.S. and abroad, signaling a major transition by the industry to adopt higher speed, advanced wireless technology that automatically adapts to radio frequency problems in real time.

The company said it is seeing acceleration and widespread adoption of its “Smart Wi-Fi” systems and technology by medical centers around the world that are looking for a more reliable wireless infrastructure that is easier to deploy, provision and manage. Ultra-reliable, ubiquitous Wi-Fi is a critical requirement for optimizing adoption of and ROI for electronic medical records (EMR’s), IP-based video applications for patient education and telemedicine and voice communications – all for higher quality, safer and efficient care delivery.

The broad implementation of Ruckus ZoneFlex systems in healthcare enterprises demonstrates increasing demand for more reliable wireless networks that provide solid, wide-area coverage to support a range of devices, services and applications that are key to higher quality patient care delivery and increased patient and staff satisfaction.

The combination of 802.11n Wi-Fi with Ruckus’ patented dynamic beamforming technology, found in Ruckus ZoneFlex systems, provides a more stable wireless infrastructure able to support hospitals’ increasing use of electronic medical records, while also enabling enhanced individualized communications with patients, and faster communication and sharing of patient data among hospital staff.

“Hospitals and medical clinics are highly dynamic and interference-prone environments with many moving parts, sophisticated equipment and other devices that emit electromagnetic interference, along with staff and patients that are highly mobile,” said Rick Gentry, Director of Healthcare Solutions at Ruckus Wireless. “The advances we’ve made in the area of Wi-Fi reliability through the innovation of patented smart antennas have changed the game when it comes to wireless in healthcare.”

With a robust, Ruckus-powered wireless networking infrastructure, hospital staff can provide patients with a much more efficient, satisfying experience. At the same time, medical staff – doctors, nurses and administrative employees – can leverage the Wi-Fi network to share the most up-to-date information in real time, including prescriptions, lab tests and results, x-rays and other types of radiology images, and other patient information.

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