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InnerWireless Gets Funding for Healthcare
HTmagazine.com
RICHARDSON, TX
May 5, 2005
InnerWireless, Inc., announced today that it has established a healthcare
business unit to deliver the Medical-Grade Wireless UtilityTM. The
utility includes a unifying wireless platform and portfolio of services
to facilitate the development of an adaptive mobile enterprise strategy.
Today’s healthcare providers are sophisticated and highly mobile
workers requiring real-time communication and reliable access to mission-
and life-critical data for Point-of-Decision CareTM. Healthcare executives
are being challenged to select technologies that can help them address
priority business objectives that optimize patient care and deliver
real value to the bottom line.
Accelerated by the recent closing of a $15 million Series C investment,
InnerWireless has completed the first phase and launch of a dedicated
healthcare team. The newly formed business unit includes marketing
and corporate development staff, and additional regional sales offices.
“I am very excited about the ability to attract experienced
healthcare professionals to help our customers create and implement
best-practice solutions,” said James Taylor , Director, Wireless
Healthcare at InnerWireless .
Until now, wireless installations in hospitals have required separate
and often dedicated infrastructures, leading to redundant costs, disruptions
to patient care, and inadequate wireless coverage resulting in a difficult-to-manage
environment that does not easily adapt to demands for future technologies
and applications. The Medical-Grade Wireless Utility architecture
allows hospitals to deploy an array of wireless applications and devices
for real-time clinical communications, monitoring and therapy, as
well as wireless building services, on a unified, common wireless
infrastructure. In addition, the InnerWireless utility includes a
portfolio of services to assist hospitals with the planning, deployment
and management of their wireless environment.
“We are making a significant investment in our healthcare business
by adding a highly skilled and experienced healthcare team to address
the unique challenges of the healthcare market. In conjunction with
strategic alliances, our growing list of industryleading information
systems, medical device, and technology ecosystem partners, we are
committed to delivering clinical and business-impacting solutions
to our customers,” said Rick Gentry , InnerWireless Vice President,
Healthcare.
Leading healthcare institutions including Children’s Memorial
Hospital of Chicago, Mountain States Health Alliance of Tennessee,
and the newly opened University of Chicago Comer Children ’s
Hospital are partnering with InnerWireless to meet their strategic
and business objectives. “We chose the InnerWireless system
because it is meshed with our vision,” said Eric B. Yablonka,
Vice President and CIO, University of Chicago Hospitals and Health
System. “Specifically, we required a wireless distribution system
that could make wireless work everywhere in the hospital, and we prefer
to work with one company rather than several distinct vendors who
wanted to build separate wireless networks.”
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