Mobility and wireless services: Case Study

MHH engaged IBM to create a comprehensive patient and asset tracking solution, optimizing the patient treatment process by prioritizing and tracking patients from admission to discharge, based on medical priority and treatment.

Morrisville State College, NY, has, with IBM Business Partner Meru Networks, designed and deployed a large scale wireless network that delivers world-class speed.

A major utilities provider in Germany expects to gain substantial market share when it offers its customers the ability to proactively control the cost of energy bills with household energy meters and displays designed and implemented by IBM.

Samarinda Lodge, an aged care facility in Australia, improved communication between staff and residents by working with IBM to implement a hands-free, voice-based Vocera Communications badge solution, enabling staff members to easily call each other, while continuing to attend to the task at hand.

Saint Barnabas worked with IBM to integrate wireless communication technology by Vocera Communications with existing clinical systems for a more connected healthcare team, providing instant, hands-free, person-to-person contact, reduced response time, and a safer patient environment.

IBM provides consulting, design and implementation of an innovative, integrated, security-rich, resilient IT infrastructure to meet the University’s current and future needs for global access to online learning.

The IBM team installed wireless access points throughout the hospital, allowing staff to use mobile phones and handheld computing devices to communicate and gain instant access to patient information, with appropriate security measures and without interfering with JGH's medical equipment.

Thanks to IBM and Vocera, RCH was able to go from a paper-based hospital to a state-of-the-art, digital healthcare facility. RCH clinicians now have easier access to the right people and information, at the right time, without leaving their patient’s bedside.

Canada's Kingston General and IBM implemented a Vocera Mobile Communications solution to serve 1,400-1,800 hospital staff, resulting in a reduction in time spent on communication, patient care coordination and other support activities, leaving more time for direct patient care.

IBM and Trillium are working to fully integrate patient data across multiple points of care; allow patients to add input to and manage their health record; provide a fully integrated planning and scheduling process across the continuum of care, increasing productivity and streamlining processes.

CDHB’s emergency department and IBM implemented a solution from Vocera Communications that enables hospital personnel to communicate instantly with any other staff member or to call fixed telephone extensions within the hospital.

FSU Panama City’s Underwater Crime Scene Investigation(UCSI)teamed with IBM and Cisco to build a first-of-its-kind, Web-based, WiFi-networked communication and collaboration solution, enabling observers—located anywhere with Internet access–to see and interact with on-site underwater investigators.

IBM and Cisco implemented a wireless warehouse infrastructure with VoIP, comprised of Cisco Call Manager, LAN/wireless equipment and Unity voice mail/unified messaging solutions.

IBM and Cisco deliver a security-rich, unified network that has significantly enhanced communications, increased security, simplified maintenance and reduced downtime.