Just days after healthcare took the spotlight at CTIA Wireless 2009, more wireless-related announcements are coming out of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2009 Annual Conference, a healthcare industry convention being held in Chicago this week.
• InnerWireless says it has broadened its product portfolio to include ADC’s InterReach Fusion line. With Fusion, InnerWireless can bring carrier-only wireless solutions to any healthcare enterprise in North America regardless of the scope, complexity or price point of their project, the company says. The Fusion product line is a carrier-optimized multi-band distributed antenna system (DAS) that leverages standard building cabling and provides dedicated in-building coverage, capacity and monitoring for selected cellular carriers.
• AirStrip Technologies announced that its signature product, AirStrip OB, has received FDA clearance for use on the Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry. Airstrip OB is a mobile medical software application that sends vital waveform data, including fetal heart tracings and maternal contraction patterns, in virtual real time directly from the hospital’s labor and delivery unit to the obstetrician’s handheld mobile device. The data can be accessed from anywhere the doctor gets a cell-phone connection.
• In related healthcare news, Sprint and GE Healthcare announced that Methodist Healthcare in San Antonio, Texas, has signed a multi-million dollar contract for wireless infrastructure, software and services. The deployment supports Methodist Healthcare’s vision to enhance patient outcomes by enabling anywhere communication among caregivers as well as continuous, remote access to life-critical vital sign data.