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FORBES November 1, 2005 InnerWireless' Medical-grade Wireless Utility Guarantees Uniform Wireless Coverage for Clinical and Interpersonal Communications Throughout the 300,000-Square-Foot Hospital InnerWireless®, Inc., leading provider of in-building wireless systems, today announced that HealthAlliance Hospital is installing its Medical-grade Wireless Utility™™ throughout the Leominster Campus to enable clinical applications and interpersonal communications. By choosing InnerWireless to support the hospital's wireless technologies strategy, HealthAlliance anticipates improved levels of patient care and safety, increased customer satisfaction and improved productivity by enhancing clinician and caregiver communication with secure wireless access. InnerWireless' Wireless Utility will support a full range of wireless interpersonal, clinical and building services and applications at the hospital via an engineered, guaranteed and managed environment. Rather than repeatedly installing and disrupting patient care areas and maintaining multiple, discrete wireless systems, HealthAlliance will use the InnerWireless system to distribute several wireless services. These wireless services include clinical data, computerized physician order entry (CPOE), paging, public cellular services, nurse-call systems and future monitoring applications. The system will also distribute two-way radio for security and maintenance and wireless phone technology access for patients, visitors and staff. "HealthAlliance Hospital is committed to providing our community with the most advanced patient care possible, so we continually update our facilities with technologies that support our mission," said HealthAlliance Corporate Chief Information Officer Richard Mohnk. "Of all the systems we reviewed, only the Wireless Utility from InnerWireless could provide guaranteed wireless coverage that is required for our caregivers to stay in contact with each other, while always having access to clinical data needed to support clinicians in providing superior care. The wireless platform enables technologies that help reduce medical errors, improve communications, streamline operations and enhance the patient experience." "HealthAlliance executives made it clear that improved communications was at the heart of their information technology strategy, so we designed their in-building system to meet the specific needs of their overall IT strategy," said Ed Cantwell, president, CEO and chairman of InnerWireless. "Just like its clinical team, a hospital's wireless infrastructure must be always on, always available and always in sync with the needs of the patients and the facility. We look forward to a long partnership with HealthAlliance, an exemplary organization that even now is taking its already cutting-edge facilities to the next level." InnerWireless can also accommodate future wireless medical and communications devices as they become available without major system upgrades that can often be costly and time-consuming. InnerWireless is used in some of the country's most recognizable buildings, including the 2.8 million-square-foot Time Warner Center in Manhattan and New York City's Rockefeller Center Concourse. HealthAlliance joins a distinguished group of healthcare providers -- including Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago and the National Institutes of Health's new Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center -- in using InnerWireless to create a 21st century wireless ecosystem in their facilities. About HealthAlliance Hospital HealthAlliance Hospital is a full service, acute care hospital that serves the communities of North Central Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. As a member of UMass Memorial Health Care, HealthAlliance offers direct access to the advanced medical technology and specialty services that are part of the region's academic medical center. The HealthAlliance system includes a hospital with services on two campuses in Leominster and Fitchburg, a visiting nurse association and several primary care practices including an ob/gyn group practice. For more information about HealthAlliance, see www.healthalliance.com. About InnerWireless InnerWireless® deploys its Medical-grade Wireless Utility in hospitals and healthcare-related facilities to support a full range of wireless services and applications. InnerWireless, which guarantees wireless coverage inside buildings ranging in size up to 10 million square feet, is properly engineered to accommodate wireless systems essential for interpersonal communications (including PCS/cellular, messaging/personal data, enterprise voice and paging); clinical operations (including wireless infusion therapy/medical administration, enterprise/clinical data, portable patient monitoring and people and asset tracking); and building operations (including building automation, security and first-responder communications and push-to-talk radios). For more information about InnerWireless, see www.InnerWireless.com. (c) 2005 Forbes.com Inc.™ All Rights Reserved |
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