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Health and the Wireless Revolution. APPLICATIONS. The applications hold the potential to improve health care delivery, reduce costs, increase efficiency and effectiveness of providers and make services more convenient for patients
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APPLICATIONS • The applications hold the potential to improve health care delivery, reduce costs, increase efficiency and effectiveness of providers and make services more convenient for patients • While many advances have been made over the last few years, the field of wireless health is in its infancy. • Devices and products include 'end-to-end' systems such as wearable sensors that transmit personal health and activity data to physicians, caregivers, and fitness coaches.
Data Points • US study about medication errors • 8% of medication errors are fatal• • improper dose (40%) • wrong drug (16%) • wrong patient (9%) • lack of data at point of care (44%)• • communication errors (16%) • Dutch study about medical errors • 30.000 annual avoidable medical mistakes causing 3.000 deaths per year • NHS pays out about £400m in settlement of clinical negligence claims, with a potential liability of about £2.4bn for existing and expected claims
Know what they Know (or at least pretend) TeleMedicine TeleHealth e-Health M-Health Mobilehealth
The Acute – Mid Essex NHS Trust • The Acute • Single Site • Voice • Data • RFID • Patient Monitoring • MESH • Redundancy
The Shared Service - Hampshire • The Shared Service • Multi site • Data • Guest Access • Central Management • Redundancy • MESH • Linear Cost
Vocera - VoWLAN • Drives AP density up • Leverages our redundancy story • MESH
How does it work? Wireless Network Wireless Network Wired Network Wired Network Layer 2 / 3 Roaming Traffic Flow Comparison Resiliency Comparison Wired Integration
Location Based Services • Aeroscout • If you have to!! • Ekahua • Better acuracy • No exciters • Do not love Cisco
Philips MCA • Philips sell over $10B in Health related products every year • They speak at a different level • ENGAGE