Wireless System Prioritizes Patient Data

An award-winning patient monitoring network that prioritizes critical patient data serves as a single unified wireless infrastructure throughout a hospital and supports both monitoring and hospital-information systems.

The Infinity OneNet, a product of Dräger Medical (Lübeck, Germany), can be easily incorporated into an existing network infrastructure, so that hospitals can avoid additional implementation and service costs. Other benefits include increased mobility for patients as well as greater flexibility of hospital resources. By making use of industry-standard hardware, tools for network management, and security systems, the hospital is not tied to one vendor. Infinity OneNet has been awarded the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology & Innovation Excellence in the European markets for wireless patient monitoring in hospitals.

Compliance with Ethernet and Wi-Fi standards as well as the effective management of wireless bandwidth have helped the system provide effective segmentation of the network, based on hospital needs. Application traffic-management tools embedded in the system's architecture differentiate life-critical patient data from other data and prioritize this data, based on several parameters.

"Dräger Medical has the unique distinction of being the only company in the market to integrate a hospital-wide wireless patient monitoring network,” said Frost & Sullivan research analyst Aarati Ajay in a statement describing the award bestowed on Dräger Medical. "With the adoption of Dräger Medical's innovative Infinity OneNet solution, hospitals can elevate their monitoring networks to true information technology (IT) standards of performance and reliability.”






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