NetMotion Mobility Benefits Physicians and Nurses
Physicians and nurses require continuous connections to patient-critical applications at the point of care. Every minute that hospital staff spends re-entering patient information or re-opening applications because of lost wireless connectivity increases the risk to patients, reduces productivity, and can mean that data is lost. NetMotion Mobility™ solves these issues, providing clear cost savings for hospitals, increased productivity for staff, and meeting HIPAA security requirements.
Realizing cost savings
Using wireless devices, doctors and nurses have easy access to information. They spend less time on paperwork and more time in front of patients. By enabling continuous, reliable connections to clinical applications, NetMotion Mobility accelerates the return on investment for healthcare facilities that deploy wireless networks.
- Use your existing legacy applications. NetMotion Mobility requires no custom programming and no application modification, both of which are expensive and time-consuming. If your applications can run on wired networks, then they can run on wireless networks once NetMotion Mobility is installed. There is no need for expensive integration projects.
- Gain efficiency. Having reliable and secure access to real-time data over wireless networks reduces errors and process overhead. NetMotion Mobility removes common barriers to wireless deployments, increasing user efficiency and productivity.
- Save IT support resources. NetMotion Mobility eliminates wireless connection problems. IT support resources are no longer burdened with frequent calls concerning wireless connectivity, device failure, and application data loss. Hospitals see immediate savings from overcoming wireless device challenges and freeing IT support services to focus on other issues.
- Simple installation, easily scalable. Installing NetMotion is straightforward: there is no need for time-consuming training because NetMotion Mobility runs transparently on mobile devices—users spend their time focused on patients, not technology. As your implementation of mobile devices grows to meet staff needs, NetMotion Mobility scales easily. As a software-only solution, no hardware or expensive capital requirement is needed.
Solving the needs of users and IT
Network interruptions and disconnections are hard to avoid in healthcare settings:
- The radio frequency that mobile devices and access points use is interrupted by metal barriers, thick hospital walls, and glazed window glass. Stepping into an elevator, a patient's room, or near an X-ray room blocks radio waves—applications and device fail, and data is lost.
- Healthcare workers are mobile professionals: they move between floors, buildings, or across a hospital campus. If there aren't enough access points along the way, or if they move between wireless networks—from WLAN to WWAN, for example—they lose their applications and must re-start programs and re-key patient data. With lost time and effort, the advantages that wireless networking provides are not realized. Only NetMotion Mobility solves these issues and provides a seamless, reliable, and transparent transition for mobile staff.
NetMotion Mobility gives IT managers centralized control and management of mobile devices and wireless computing. It offers a significant return on investment by increasing user productivity, removing wireless disconnection barriers, and reducing IT support requirements. Read the Owensboro Mercy Health System case study to learn how NetMotion Mobility provided a return on their wireless investment.
Meeting HIPAA security
Mobile access and transmission of patient data creates security concerns for HIPAA compliancy. Information must be encrypted to ensure confidentiality from unauthorized users. NetMotion meets HIPAA security standards using AES encryption and advanced authentication protocols. To read more about security, download our white paper, HIPAA Security for Wireless Networks.
Achieving quality of care
Real-time data delivered to healthcare workers via mobile devices improves the quality of care by enabling access to information when it is needed. Access to the most current patient information allows physicians to reduce errors and improve efficiencies in delivering healthcare services. NetMotion Mobility is the catalyst that makes wireless solutions for healthcare work in real environments.
Please contact our sales people to find out how NetMotion Mobility can fit into your healthcare environment.
