Wirral University picks Aruba's wireless mobile applications

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in northwest
England has deployed Aruba's wireless systems at its Arrowe Park and
Clatterbridge Hospitals. The Trust provides acute healthcare services
to more than 400,000 patients annually, and needed a secure wireless
system to enhance staff productivity, track patient data and ensure
compliance to working time directives. Aruba's Adaptive Radio
Management technology lowers Wi-Fi deployment and maintenance costs by
automating site surveys and using infrastructure-based controls to

optimise the performance of Wi-Fi clients. The Aruba wireless network
supports 2,500 healthcare professionals who now have secure access to
electronic patient records and picture archiving communications systems.

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Is this the one they put in about 6 months ago? 950 wireless units thoughout the hospital - paid for by the strategic health authority. It was fitted so that the on call docs could use PDAs ( iBleep ) instead of pagers. The calls to the iBleep would be assessed by Clinical Nurse Advisors. But when the system went online it failed after about 40 minutes. Think it was a wireless malfunction, or possibly they found the batteries on the PDAs didn't last as long as they thought they might.

They also haven't considered the cost of replacing units if they are dropped, lost or stolen.

I'm told they are working on the problems and iBleep whould be up and running one day!

Wirral was one of a few Trusts that chose to implement the European Working Time Directive (for doctors in training) a year earlier, the iBleep was supposed to be part of the implementation (as well as to do with the Hospitals @ Night concept).

Links:

EWTD

iBleep and EWTD

Hospital @ Night