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New Hospital Advances Enterprise Connectivity

June 3rd, 2005 |  Published in Patient Flow, Patient Safety

Here's a short description of the University of Chicago's new Comer Children's Hospital. Even though the 42-in flat screen TVs in each patient room get metioned twice, the real news is the level of innovation in connectivity. Nurse call-VoIP phone integration, InnerWireless wireless utility, RFID, Cisco medical grade network, and patient monitors networked across the hospital all culminate in what is one of the most advanced examples of hospital connectivity.

Perhaps I can convince Eric Yablonka to share with us more of the story behind putting all this together. Read the whole thing.

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Gee

After almost 25 years in health care Tim remains with his first love, connectology, the automation of workflow through the integration of medical devices with information systems.


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