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 Challenge
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| Medical institutions such as hospitals and clinics face important operational challenges, including the need to maintain accurate and timely diagnostic and patient data, while remaining cost effective. While most hospitals have modern networks and equipment, there are legacy devices being used every day that cannot connect to networks for data sharing and remote management. With serial medical equipment working alongside networked devices and applications, it has become difficult to share information efficiently amongst the many healthcare professionals involved. |
Solution |
| At the point of care, the proven iPocket232™ connects medical devices such as patient monitors, blood analysers, infusion pumps and ultrasound units to an IP LAN/WAN. The iPocket232 seamlessly connects any device via its RS232 interface to an existing institutional LAN/WAN via Ethernet. |
| Data Sharing |
| By connecting this equipment to the LAN/WAN, patient care data can flow directly from a serial device to a nurse's station or physician's office, allowing busy medical personnel to access patient information locally or remotely, improving the efficiency of patient care. |
| Operational Improvements |
| Beyond data sharing, networking medical equipment offers other benefits, including integration with mission-critical ethernet-based applications. The cost of operating legacy medical equipment can be reduced, when replacing modem pools or eliminating dedicated PCs for each device. Time spent updating records and correcting inaccurate transcription is reduced, and I.T. Departments have an improved ability to manage the equipment on their network. |
Application Diagram |
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| Working together with Precidia's serial networking adapters such as the iPocket232 is NetVu™, Precidia's management server. The management server facilitates enhanced management, monitoring and device deployment. From remotely assigning, configuring and updating units, to identifying problem areas on the network, NetVu is always working to make the transition to IP an easy one. |
Benefits |
- Remote access to medical equipment for real-time data sharing amongst medical professionals
- Seamless integration with existing equipment and applications
- Retain investment in costly legacy medical equipment
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- Improved device monitoring and management
- Eliminates need for modems and dedicated PCs
- Management server streamlines deployment and management
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| Customer Testimonial |
| "We are using the Ether232 device from Precidia Technologies to connect our Tel-Tron nurse call to the Emergin WirelessOffice server and Spectralink's OAI. By implementing this complete solution, our medical personnel can now receive nurse call alerts, as well as security alerts, in real time to their Spectralink telephones. The solution has enhanced response times and provided new productivity tools for our busy medical personnel." |
Ron Weisman
MIS Director
Sholom Community Hospital Foundation |
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