Healthcare practitioners working in challenging environments have little margin for error when diagnosing and treating patients. The limitations of traditional record-keeping and paper-based processes along with limited healthcare staffs and budgets have increased the need for portable electronic-based data systems in the healthcare environment.

With HIPAA standards for safeguarding patient data, wireless network security is a primary concern for any business facility. NetMotion Mobility XE provides authentication and encryption security that meets rigorous HIPAA standards. Our wireless virtual private network (VPN) secures all data sent to and from the mobile client device, creating an end-to-end solution that is secure from attack and unauthorized access.

Feeney Wireless offers healthcare solutions tailored to your organizations information needs, budget constraints, and work environment.

Challenges:

• Deploying drug and prescription databases widely
• Efficiently and promptly distribute patient information in order to assess treatment
• Out-dated medical books or electronic databases and slow access to printed materials
• Traditional fixed hospital networks incapable of supporting both voice and data traffic from heterogeneous mobile devices
• Average laptops unable to be sanitized or to withstand a fast-paced medical environment
• Healthcare budget constraints
• Limited IT staffs
• Connection interferences including elevators, stairwells and electronic interferences from medical devices
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations which require secure transmission and storage of patient information.
• Inconsistent network connections which undermine access to mission-critical information

Needs:

• Hand-held wireless devices with powerful processors, voice recognition, and color screens
• Integrated digital patient record systems that detail patient history in multiple healthcare organizations and throughout all clinical encounters
• Rugged, moisture-resistant laptops which can withstand fast-paced dynamic environments and which can be sanitized.
• Patient records must be available at all times and in all environments in order to diagnose and treat in the least amount of time possible.
• Security hardware and software must be implemented throughout the network so that patient records are securely transmitted and stored.
• Comprehensive internet service (primary, backup, wired, and wireless) which is high-speed, secure, and reliable
• Intelligent software for data retrieval, management, and security
• Diagnostic and prescription support systems (scanners, wireless computer databases)
• Prescription support and tracking
• Online access to pharmaceutical information and adverse reactions databases
• Links to up-to-date internal medical libraries

Solutions:

Panasonic Toughbooks- Rugged Toughbooks offer the industry's highest reliability rate, maximizing uptime and mobile productivity. Lightweight and equipped for real-time connectivity from anywhere, Toughbooks travel easily to and from patients' homes, from room to room and from office to hospital. Toughbooks offer maximum uptime and productivity at lower total cost of ownership.

• Access medical databases anywhere and patient records can be updated immediately at the time of treatment.
• Toughbooks are sanitizable and durable, so medical practitioners can worry about keeping their patients safe instead of worrying about their computers.
• Toughbooks are equipped with powerful processors, ensuring fast data retrieval and entry.

NetMotion Mobility XE- Mobility XE software ensures that multiple devices can roam seamless between networks in constantly changing environments. Mobility eliminates lost data and application crashes, even when healthcare workers move outside network coverage or suspend and resume their devices.

• Roam freely without losing applications, device functionality or vital patient information.
• Comply with HIPAA requirements for electronic data security with Roamable VPN, a standards-based, secure virtual private network that is designed for wireless networking and provides default 128-bit AES encryption.
• Integrate single-sign-on authentication so clinicians use standard login credentials-there are no additional steps to learn or passwords to remember.
• Enable any application to work on any network without modification or customization. As a result, IT managers can continue their investments in existing healthcare applications while avoiding costly customization or middleware integration.
• Provide network managers with a centralized interface to manage and control devices, get usage data and statistics, and control security levels and encryption parameters for mobile users.
• Enable IT managers to "lock" their networks against any lost or stolen device.

Symbol Mobile Computers- Whether connecting patients to doctors on the move, scanning patient information bedside, making test results available immediately, reducing the risk of human error in the lab, pharmacy or donor center, or ensuring the availability of B-negative blood - Symbol mobile computers are designed to streamline, inform, simplify, verify, support and reassure.

• Reduce the possibility of human error by being able to access the most current data about patients and their medications.
• Avoid second-guessing and bedside redundancies with bar code technology.
• Allow medical professionals to spend more time on high-value patient care by capturing vitals and charting treatment information instantaneously with mobile computers.
• Save money and time by avoiding costly medical mistakes.
• Gain consistency in patient care.
• Link nurses to up-to-the minute information about patients, monitors, pumps, medical records and medication schedules, regardless of where they are working.
• Free up your staff to focus on patient care instead of paperwork.
• Reduce patient response times.