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Baptist Memorial Health Care reached a $6 million agreement with Johnson Controls to install a wireless distribution infrastructure at five of its largest hospitals and the organization’s corporate office.
The wireless distribution system will provide wireless coverage throughout Baptist’s six locations by means of a single broadband infrastructure. The system, which will be installed in the next 12 months, will support the delivery of voice and data systems—such as personal communications systems and cellular carriers, local area networks, two-way radios, digital paging systems, handheld clinical devices and medical telemetry—throughout each location. Also, the wireless system will eliminate the need for separate, multiple wireless networks and can easily support changes or the addition of future applications.
“This wireless infrastructure will usher us into the next generation of technology,” said David Hogan, chief operating officer and executive vice president for Baptist Memorial Health Care. “This system is more robust than anything else in the market and will prepare us to meet the future needs and demands of our clinical staff and patients.”
The wireless infrastructure will support the integrated electronic clinical information system Baptist is installing at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto, Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital, Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi, and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle.
This multiyear project, which began implementation in July 2005, will move Baptist closer to a paperless environment, with electronic bedside patient charting and documentation and automated delivery systems—all to enhance patient care and quality.
