Methodist Medical Center Ensures Wireless Coverage With GE Healthcare CARESCAPE Enterprise Access

by Barbara Kram, Editor | October 29, 2008

Expanding its mobile capabilities throughout the hospital delivered additional patient-care benefits including:
* Improved Patient Satisfaction: reliable wireless coverage helps the center meet its goal of responding to all patient requests within two minutes, leading to patient satisfaction rates in the 94th percentile for inpatients from April to June 2008.
* Disruptive Noise Reduced: because communication is conducted using wireless devices, disturbing overhead paging is reduced.

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Powered by MobileAccess and its Wire-it-Once™ infrastructure, CARESCAPE Enterprise Access enables data to be coordinated and managed within one wireless network across an entire enterprise. This includes data on pagers, workstations on wheels, laptops and tablet PCs. The distributed antenna system allows IT staff to manage potential interference issues before they occur and to quickly add new services and adapt to emerging wireless requirements and future expansions without disrupting operations or interrupting services. Leveraging Enterprise Access, Methodist Medical uses GE Healthcare ApexPro ® CH telemetry system, providing the center with a large-capacity wireless patient monitoring system.

"Traditional patient monitoring systems do not keep pace with the growing demands of our healthcare system: patients are sicker, skilled healthcare workers are fewer in number and regulatory demands are growing," said Vice President & General Manager of GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions David Ataide. "Methodist Medical Center is among the leading edge hospitals leveraging GE Healthcare's CARESCAPE portfolio to turn streams of unorganized patient data into meaningful, easily accessible clinical intelligence. We are proud to support Methodist Medical Center and its goal of providing better patient information to make improved clinical decisions."

ABOUT METHODIST MEDICAL CENTER

Methodist Medical Center is a 330-bed hospital in the heart of Central Illinois. Methodist services include a nationally recognized heart program, pioneering cancer treatment, the area's most advanced imaging services, and a comprehensive behavioral health program. Mission-driven, values-based, and community-oriented, Methodist is committed to delivering outstanding healthcare. Period.

ABOUT GE HEALTHCARE

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.

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