We’ve shown you how wireless can break down borders, making your organization more efficient and agile. Today, I wanted to take a moment and share how we’ve been using our own technology to provide world-class medical care to our employees and their families. In this case study, you’ll see how our on-site medical facility, the LifeConnections Health Center, is using the Cisco Unified Wireless Network with our Context-Aware solution to save $140,000/year while improving care.
Founded in 2008, the LifeConnections Health Center began its life with the Cisco Unified Wireless Network and a suite of mobility services, including wireless patient check-in, Cerner electronic medical records and e-prescribing, while temperature monitoring and asset management remained manual processes. “Our nurses had to keep paper logs of our refrigerator temperatures, checking them twice daily to make sure vaccines and lab samples preserved their efficacy,” says David Lees, Cerner clinic manager. “It was also challenging for us to keep track of our medical devices and equipment.”
To solve these issues, LifeConnections leveraged their existing wireless infrastructure to deploy the Cisco Context-Aware Solution with the AeroScout RFID tracking solution. “With this solution, we were able to easily add the temperature monitoring and asset tracking capabilities we needed into our existing Cisco Unified Wireless Network,” says Uma Desiraju, IT manager. “Leveraging our wireless infrastructure for these new services is enabling us to achieve a nine-month ROI.”
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