by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 17, 2008 | Wireless Enterprise
While the issue of using cellular phones in the healthcare environment is cooling off, there is the issue that these are consumer devices that once dropped onto concrete tend to smash into pieces. Imagine a hard OR floor. AT&T is going after...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 15, 2008 | RFID and RFLS
Here is the official press release coming out of the meeting at RFID World in Las Vegas, NV. It is first major step toward building the educational awareness and driving consensus of adoption throughout the healthcare vertical markeplace. Congrats to Harry and...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 12, 2008 | Bar Code
Back when I was working for Symbol Technologies the use of 1D (Dimensional) bar coding was just coming into the healthcare marketplace. Scanners were laser scanners and different scan engines were needed to scan the bar code. Some of these earlier scanners could...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 12, 2008 | RFID and RFLS
http://www.rfidinhealthcare.org Integra Systems, Inc. is a charter member. On September 09, in Las Vegas, the RFID Educational Foundation, the non-profit charitable organization held the first meeting at the RFID World 2008 event in order to establish the...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 11, 2008 | Strategic Mobility and Wireless Planning
The healthcare organization of today and tommorrow needs to improve productivity and work flow throughout the mobile care environment. Wireless technologies will allow this to happen. Do you have a wireless strategy and plan in place? Has a technology planning...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 11, 2008 | RFID and RFLS
A couple of years ago I wrote a white paper discussing the various technologies, WIFI, Zigbee, UWB, the landscope of RTLS (Real Time Location Systems), not to be confused with RFID, (Radio Frequency Identification). Here is a good paper by Adrian Jennings of...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 10, 2008 | M2M TELEMATICS
Healthcare represents a sustantial forward growth for M2M (machine to machine) services. In a recent paper prepared by the University of Glamorgan in Wales, a study was performed for the use of GPRS network for telemedicine in Spain. Key findings...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 10, 2008 | Distributed Antenna Systems
With any radio system deployment you need to consider the "Link Budget". With Distributed Antenna Systems a "Link Budget" Calculation needs to be done to ensure the signal levels are adequate. Whether cellular requirements at -85dBm or...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 10, 2008 | Distributed Antenna Systems
As a resident of the Philadelphia area I have seen this gleaming tower come out of the ground. At 1,000 ft, 58 stories, 1.2 million square feet, it is the tallest building in Philadelphia and among the worlds most technologically advanced. Philadelphia has...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 9, 2008 | WIFI
It has been long known that WIFI client devices are power hogs. Does not really matter if it is in a laptop, but when in a portable device there simply are limits. Thus, companies like Symbol now Motorola, in their PDAS for the past eight years have used...
