Wireless Patient Monitors Enabling Connectivity, Mobility across the Healthcare Facility

New Survey by Greystone Associates Analyzes Device and Infrastructure Factors Influencing Adoption and Deployment

[USPRwire, Mon Aug 23 2010] As the health care sector continues to search for ways to control expenses and improve patient quality-of-care, integrating the flow of patient information on a facility-wide basis has been viewed as a critical first step in the evolution of patient care in the digital world. In this migration, extending integration beyond the wired hospital LAN via wirelessly enabled devices is the next frontier. Integration of point-of-care information onto health care information LANs using wireless devices is now viewed as a priority by an increasing number of health care administrators.

The availability of wireless patient monitors that can increase the efficiency of strained nursing staffs and facilitate improved outcomes provides the potential for untethered units to replace wired monitors as healthcare facilities upgrade their inventory of existing devices. But before wireless devices can become a part of the standard hospital operating model, they must overcome lingering connectivity and network scalability issues.

The market prospects for wireless monitors are rooted in a handful of standards that define the communications protocols, device interfaces, and information security requirements for health care information systems. These standards are serving as a roadmap for the integration of patient monitors onto hospital LANs using wireless interfaces and branded device networks.

A key factor in the decision by healthcare decision makers to invest in wireless devices is the perceived need for greater patient mobility within the healthcare facility. Interoperability will also continue to be a key buying concern for the more than five thousand health care facilities currently attempting to integrate a variety of discrete monitors onto their networks.

The evolving market and demand picture for wireless in-patient monitors is analyzed in a new report - Wireless In-Patient Monitors and Monitoring Systems: Devices, Deployment, Connectivity, Portability and Prospects – available from Greystone Associates.

More information is available at www.greystoneassociates.org .

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