Saturday, May 1, 2010

Healthcare “hearts” Bountiful Wi-Fi

A current trend in the healthcare industry is electronic records transferring. The ability to send records without a huge paper trail cuts down on costs like transporting, validation and time. Even within a single hospital complex, these can cost lives.

One of the barriers to creating an electronic transfer system is infrastructure. Will every room be wired? Will every physician and nurse need to carry a notebook computer to plug in, or will there be a computer station for each patient’s room? As the pile of questions grows ever-larger, the answer becomes clearer: wireless network. These types of systems have nothing to do with watching funny videos on YouTube, but have everything to do with saving lives and keeping track of patients’ records.

A Bountiful Wi-Fi wireless network will do the following for a healthcare facility:
- make records transferring immediate
- cut down on infrastructure costs
- simplify the installation of the wireless network
- decrease hardware upkeep costs

For those in the know, a Bountiful Wi-Fi controller – the brains of the network – offers the following features to aid in healthcare facilities:
- VPN
- Captive portal for individual username and password access
- Access restriction
- Firewall with rules
- NAT
- Configure up to four SSIDs

For more information, visit: http://www.bountifulwifi.com.