by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Aug 5, 2008 | Strategic Mobility and Wireless Planning
After serving as the the head of biomedical engineering at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas for more than 25 years, Yadin David has launched Biomedical Engineering Consultants, LLC, a consulting firm focused on medical technology management. ...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 17, 2008 | WLAN Deployment Guide
Certainly I can give the highlights here, but Cisco has done what I consider the most accurate and healthcare accurate guideline document to date. Not that I drinking the Cisco Koolaid or anybody in this vein, but they seem to really now are getting the grasp of the...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 17, 2008 | White Papers
Have asked many to contribute as this will give a rounded unbiased attempt at this article. Final submission due by 31 July to www.aami.org. It is hoped that this a pretty good educational article that will help the industry at large. Thank you all to have taken the...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 9, 2008 | WLAN Deployment Guide
While this can be posted, all should just go to www.cisco.com, go to their search engine and type this in. This is probably the most comprehensive guide that I have seen from Cisco that provides a holistic perspective of deployment, scaling, to include 802.11n. ...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jul 1, 2008 | Publications
Selected again to provide www.aami.org, article. Abstract is ” As the wireless mobility continum continues to unfold in healthcare; it is becoming a requirement that disparate medical devices from different companies share the over arching wireless LAN...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jun 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
While the proliferation of WLAN deployment is prevalent the moving forward with LTE offers several significant advantages for the data and voice requirement of the mobility model in healthcare. Performance and Capacity – One of the requirements of LTE is to...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jun 28, 2008 | RFID and RFLS
RFID technology is already used for some applications like the smart cards used in access control systems, but many other applications are currently under investigation. Wal-Mart, for example, is working on wireless cards so that the supermarket of the future can have...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jun 27, 2008 | RFID and RFLS
Theres is renewed talk recently about the safety of wireless devices operating in hospitals or around the point of care. A recent study by the University of Amsterdam researchers raised concerns about RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) causing disruptions to...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jun 26, 2008 | 802.11n
The coverage patterns of 802.11a/b/g are mainly limited by attenuation and shadowing and are reletively predicitable. 802.1a/b/g specified a number of data rates and operating modes. The available data rates of a 802.11n MIMO link are dependent on the local scattering...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Jun 20, 2008 | 802.11n
Power consumption for 802.11n devices will be significantly higher that for 802.a/g devices which are much higher than 802.11b devices. The key reasons why power consumption of 802.11a/g devices was much higher than 802.11b were (a) a more complex signal processing...