Fulfill your vision for enhanced healthcare delivery with advanced network designs that enable you to: ● Support secure mobile applications and
services such as decision support, e-research, e-prescriptions, and voice over wireless LAN
● Use handheld medical devices to send electronic medical records and other large files wirelessly across high-performance 802.11n networks
● Quickly locate medical assets and personnel and monitor environmental conditions
Cisco Wireless LAN Planning and Design Service for Healthcare
Plan and Design a Scalable and Integrated Solution Able to Support Your Mission-Critical Medical Environment
Challenge
Many healthcare organizations face rising costs and staff shortages as they cope with growing demand for healthcare services. They are eager to take advantage of new wireless LAN technology that would enable them to spend less time looking for equipment, tracking down physicians, or searching for information when they could be spending time with patients. They want to connect specialists with patients, regardless of their locations, to improve use of expert resources.
Improving staff efficiency is an important strategy for healthcare organizations, and many are seeking to improve communication and collaboration while simplifying workflow. However, simply giving staff more communication devices can make it even more difficult to communicate and collaborate. Due to the complexity of the task and mission-critical nature of healthcare, the IT staff often needs help planning, designing, and building an integrated solution that meets their stringent requirements and has the flexibility to scale to meet ever-changing demands on staff and systems.
Solution
Cisco and our Wireless LAN Specialized Partners offer a broad portfolio of end-to-end services that help you develop strategies for deploying high-performance secure networks that can support the demand for mobility applications. These services are based on proven methodologies for assessing wireless network designs, identifying technology readiness, and creating deployment strategies. Deployment of these new and sometimes complex technologies requires the knowledge that has been gained through years of experience designing and deploying some of the world’s most complex wireless networks. Cisco Wireless LAN Specialized Partners bring application expertise to help deliver a secure enterprise mobility solution with a low total cost of ownership.
Cisco Wireless LAN Planning and Design Service for Healthcare
Creating a wireless LAN network to support mission-critical medical applications requires advanced designs and experienced deployment. In order to increase the efficiency and quality of patient care, this service provides planning and design for a mobile clinical workflow solution and includes activities that Cisco has identified as essential for success. These activities have particular emphasis on radio frequency (RF) design and architecture, which require careful attention due to the extreme challenges with equipment, radiation, and highly reinforced construction used in hospitals and other healthcare environments.
The Cisco Wireless LAN Planning and Design Service for Healthcare consists of the following nine activities:
● Wireless LAN architectural and security design
● Wireless LAN RF site assessment
● Wireless LAN detailed network design
● Cisco Wireless LAN Controller configuration
● Cisco Wireless Control System configuration
● Wireless LAN mobility services engine configuration
● Wireless LAN context-aware configuration
● Wireless LAN voice services configuration
● Wireless LAN postdeployment validation service
Wireless LAN Architectural and Security Design The first steps in deploying a secure wireless LAN solution are translating business application requirements into solution requirements and aligning those solution requirements to the multitude of technologies that are available. The wireless LAN expert uses a comprehensive set of methodologies that help you manage your technical and applications requirements while providing you with various architectural options. The first steps in deploying a secure wireless LAN solution are translating business application requirements into solution requirements and aligning those solution requirements with Cisco leading deployment practices. The wireless LAN expert then assesses architectural readiness and develops a high-level design, followed by reviewing and making necessary modifications to your implementation plan. Upon completion of these activities Cisco provides you with a high-level design document with recommendations.
Wireless LAN RF Site Assessment The packet loss and jitter requirements of voice over IP, the increased mobility of voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN) handset users, and the desired ability to track location and state of your assets place demands on connection quality, coverage, and user expectations that are beyond those a of a typical wireless LAN data deployment. This assessment helps you determine your environment’s ability to deliver secure wireless LAN access in the desired coverage area. It helps you understand the current state of your network and future needs so you can make informed decisions about how to reliably predict coverage and call capacity and protect your wireless architecture. The assessment, which includes a site survey, enables Cisco to make recommendations for placement of access points, establishing their frequencies, antenna selections, and power and cabling specifications.
Wireless LAN Detailed Network Design A wireless LAN expert works with your staff to develop detailed plans and configurations. Design elements include the security infrastructure, IP addressing scheme, switching and routing infrastructure, network management infrastructure, and software image recommendations. Upon completion of the design, a low-level design plan is created and includes templates for controller configuration, security configuration settings, and switch configuration recommendations.
Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Configuration Within this activity we recommend code versions for the wireless LAN controllers, implement the recommended version of controller software, and configure the wireless LAN controller for your network. We will also assign access points to the required controller according to the design.
Cisco Wireless Control System Configuration A wireless LAN expert recommends code versions for the Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS), implements the recommended version of WCS, and configures the security policies and templates for your network. WCS scheduled tasks, user accounts, and logging are configured to match Cisco leading practice recommendations and the network requirements.
Wireless LAN Mobility Services Engine Configuration During this activity we recommend code versions for the Mobility Services Engine (MSE) and planned mobility service, implement the recommended version of the MSE, and import the configurations into WCS. We help you configure your secure Cisco secure access control servers (ACSs) and sample client devices and implement your wireless control system (WCS) and MSE. We provide onsite support for implementing your WCS and will configure wireless LAN controllers, policy provisioning, RF optimization, security monitoring, and customized fault settings.
Wireless LAN Context-Aware Configuration This activity provides onsite support for configuring your context-aware software, including RF tags, exciters, and chokepoints to help ensure the proper deployment and installation of software releases and updates and implementation. It also includes calibration of the MSE to improve location accuracy based on Cisco leading practices.
Wireless LAN Voice Services Configuration This activity provides onsite support to configure a voice over wireless LAN solution and wireless controllers, recommend device configuration, and integrate with your Cisco Unified Communications infrastructure. We work with you to help ensure the proper deployment based on Cisco leading practices and to validate accurate installation of software releases and updates. Implementation of the VoWLAN solution includes configuration of Call Admission Control (CAC) to help ensure quality of service (QoS), transparent mobility, and fast secure roaming over mobility groups and channel strategies to improve performance and user call experience.
Wireless LAN Postdeployment Validation Service This activity verifies that the system is operating in accordance with the design by surveying the RF environment, validating configurations, and reviewing general performance of the VoWLAN. In providing onsite and remote wireless LAN postdeployment validation, our team of specialists assesses coverage, measures interference, evaluates overall wireless LAN network capacity, and makes recommendations for improvement to help ensure optimal performance.
Benefi ts
Cisco mobility solutions for healthcare provide healthcare workers with secure reliable access to clinical, collaborative, and context-aware applications that optimize the efficiency and quality of patient care. Evolving the wired and wireless network into a true mobility platform makes it easier to manage the increasing quantity and diversity of mobile devices, addresses security concerns, and creates an open platform for the development of mobile clinical workflow applications. Cisco and our specialized partners provide the expertise needed to deploy these new technologies using Cisco leading practices.
In addition, this service helps you:
● Create a more regulatory compliant wireless network foundation that helps ensure patient privacy and provides secure information access and exchange
● Identify new opportunities to utilize your wireless LAN infrastructure to deploy cost-saving and productivity-enhancing mobility applications
● Reduce deployment costs by using plans based on expert analysis of your current network design and configurations
● Decrease complexity while enhancing collaboration and deploying innovative applications with healthcare-specific recommendations based on Cisco leading practices
● Improve your staff’s understanding of mobility technologies requirements with a knowledge transfer session
● Successfully integrate contextual information such as location and temperature into medical applications to simplify workflow processes and improve patient care
Why Cisco Services
Cisco Services make networks, applications, and the people who use them work better together. Today, the network is a strategic platform in a world that demands better integration between people, information, and ideas. The network works better when services, together with products, create solutions aligned with business needs and opportunities.
The unique Cisco Lifecycle approach to services defines the requisite activities at each phase of the network lifecycle to help ensure service excellence. With a collaborative delivery methodology that joins the forces of Cisco, our skilled network of partners, and our customers, we achieve the best results.
For More Information
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