by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 24, 2009 | Switches
In a test conducted by Network World, Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850 came out on top for the lowest power consumption when idle and joint third when fully loaded. When idle, the OmniSwitch used just 79 watts, outclassing the competition and saving money...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 24, 2009 | 802.11n
The migration to wireless LANS is very much underway in healthcare and many clinicians have moved away from the "traditional" desktop charting to the WIF-enabled laptop. Yankee Group, an analyst, predicts that in 2009, wired enterprise switch sales...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Integra Systems is in discussions to evaluate the propensity of this for embedded application development to displace the conventional PC form factor for medical applications. The benefits include: A very small form factor: 4" x 3.5", low power...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Integra Systems will be speaking on wireless in-building solutions at this conference on September 10-11, 2009 at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Please see below an initial pre-lim agenda. Download MDC_Agenda
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 17, 2009 | Distributed Antenna Systems
Integra Systems, Inc. has been selected again by one of the leading publications in healthcare to author an article on Distributed Antenna Systems. This should be coming out in the next couple of months. It will go in depth on the nuances of...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 15, 2009 | Wireless Strategy Healthcare
Healthcare and education are but two of the most information intensive vertical markets for information. Additionally, they have high demands for reliability of the network. Finally there are pressures to contain costs. West Chester University of...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 13, 2009 | Medical Device Testing
Recently the author received a forwarded email link to www.corporateresearchgroup.com regarding this seminar dated July 21, 2009. This agenda outlines several important topics of discussion surrounding today's need to integrate medical devices on an...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 10, 2009 | RFID and RFLS
I have had the opportunity to most recently review a well written article by Brian McAlpine, Director of Strategic Products for Capsule Technologies. The following comments are based upon my agreement with Mr. McAlpines article and also reference my experience...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 10, 2009 | Patient Monitoring
There has been much discussion surrounding the "safety and efficacy" of using standards based wireless technologies for medical device applications. In addition certain "major" patient monitoring companies it seems still want to retain the...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 7, 2009 | Wireless Enterprise Testing
No wireless environment is immune to interference. As more and more data, voice, and now medical devices incorporate WLAN (802.11a/b/g), and eventually "n", it is important to have an enterprise 24/7/365 strategy for monitoring the health and integrity of...
