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Mobile
Success Story:
St. John's Hospital
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Thanks
to a wireless network from Meru Networks, St. John's expects
to save at least $2 million per year through reduced paperwork
& greater accuracy.
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St.
John's Hospital realized the advantages wireless mobility could
provide to caregivers and other hospital staff many years ago.
An early investment in 802.11b allowed case managers to enter
patient information into the electronic medical record system.
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| Private
company, established in 2002 |
| Markets:
General Enterprise, Construction, Education, Emergency
Response, Entertainment, Finance, Healthcare, Hospitality,
Military, Property Management, Public Safety / Law Enforcement,
Real Estate, Retail, Security, Supply Chain, Transportation
– Fleet Management, Utilities |
| Operating
Systems: BlackBerry, J2ME, Linux, Mac OS X, Palm,
Windows CE, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Tablet
PC Edition, Windows XP / Vista |
| 2007
Mobile
Star Awards™
Winner: |
- RS4000
(Network Hardware: Router or Switch)
- AP300
(Network Hardware: AP)
- St.
John's Hospital (Success Story: Healthcare)
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laptops, patient information could be entered directly, providing
immediate updates to the patient record for other medical staff as
well as reducing errors formerly due to transcription of written records.
After seeing the dramatic improvement in just this one area, the IT
administrators realized that a more pervasive wireless LAN that could
support not just data, but also voice applications would provide even
greater benefits.
St.
John's selected Meru Networks after a lengthy and comprehensive
evaluation process of multiple vendors. The initial rollout has
worked so well, plans to expand the wireless LAN to cover the entire
twelve floors of the hospital have been put in place. A Return on
Investment analysis was completed and the resulting economic advantages
were compelling. Using only selected nurses saving thirty minutes
per day, St. John’s expects the system to save them $2 million
dollars in just its first year, not including the additional savings
expected for respiratory therapists, lab technicians and dieticians
when they come online.
At
completion, over 400 access points will be deployed as well as additional
applications such as a more extensive electronic medical record
system, barcode scanning for accurate inventory control and care
delivery, guest and patient Internet access and RFID for asset tracking.
Learn
more about Meru's network solutions.
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