Dräger Medical receives award for wireless patient monitoring
technology
30 March 2006
London, UK. Dräger Medical has been awarded the 2005 Frost & Sullivan
Award for Technology & Innovation Excellence in the European Markets for
Wireless Patient Monitoring in Hospitals.
The company is recognised for its pioneering technology solution,
Infinity OneNet. “Dräger Medical has the unique distinction of being the
only company in the market to integrate a hospital-wide wireless patient
monitoring network,” says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Aarati Ajay in
his statement describing the award bestowed on Dräger Medical. This
ground-breaking technology effectively establishes a single unified wireless
infrastructure throughout the hospital that supports both monitoring and
hospital information systems.
Until the launch of this system, the patient monitoring network
functioned as a standalone entity, discrete from the network of the
hospital. This often sets up barriers to technology and workflow innovation
made possible by the widespread deployment of wireless monitoring. However,
Infinity OneNet has ushered in a paradigm shift. “With the adoption of
Dräger Medical’s innovative Infinity OneNet solution, hospitals can elevate
their monitoring networks to true IT standards of performance and
reliability,” continues Ajay. Moreover, the compliance to the 802.3 Ethernet
and Wi-Fi standards and the effective management of wireless bandwidth has
helped this innovative system provide effective segmentation of the network
based on hospital needs. This is particularly suited for the transfer of
life-critical data such as patient alarms and vital signs information. Tools
embedded in the system architecture differentiate life-critical patient data
from other data and prioritize it accordingly. The Infinity OneNet network
thereby provides high availability fulfilment of service requirements. The
use of an application traffic management system prioritises data based on
several parameters. At the same time, the system’s unique attributes assuage
end-user concerns about the shared infrastructure compromising system
reliability.
The entire monitoring network at the University of Heidelberg (Germany)
is based on Infinity OneNet. Additionally, a service implementation strategy
allows the hospital to build the system to their needs and standards. It
also recognises the need to carefully design and implement the wireless
network by using certified wireless professionals and state-of-the-art RF
planning tools. A unified system approach to networking within a hospital
not only enhances productivity, but also offers significant return on
investment. Because this system can be easily incorporated into the existing
network infrastructure, hospitals can avoid additional implementation and
service costs. Other benefits include increased mobility for patients as
well as greater flexibility of hospital resources. Another advantage is that
by making use of industry-standard hardware, tools for network management,
and security, the hospital is not tied to one vendor.
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