GE Healthcare and MobileAccess Networks Join Forces

GE Healthcare has announced its exclusive, worldwide agreement with MobileAccess Networks (Vienna, Va) to create the GE Enterprise Access solution, designed to help hospitals roll out all of their critical wireless services on a common infrastructure. With the combined strength of MobileAccess technology and GE's broad portfolio of wireless clinical products, services and consulting, a comprehensive hospital-wide wireless solution is now a reality, according to GE. Wireless technology combined with critical wireless applications give health care facilities improved communication.

At the core of the GE Enterprise Access solution, the MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network will provide seamless wireless coverage throughout health care facilities while simultaneously delivering a broad range of wireless technologies—including cellular, wireless fidelity, paging, and public-safety radio—over a common infrastructure. The two companies will continue to collaborate on enhancements to the GE Enterprise Access solution to deliver next-generation wireless offerings for hospitals, including support for the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service.

With this new solution, hospitals will no longer need to install parallel, stand-alone infrastructures to support their clinical workflows. Instead, hospitals can deploy a highly adaptive wireless solution that enables medical teams to deliver increased clinical and IT productivity through improved communication across the entire campus.

“Communication and continuous coverage is the lifeblood of any hospital,” explained David Ataide, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions. “By combining the MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network with GE's wireless-enabled solutions, like the wireless Dash® portable monitor, and other mission-critical wireless applications, hospitals can feel confident that their investment in wireless technology ensures improved communication.”

The GE Enterprise Access solution is expected to adapt to changing conditions and accommodate new wireless applications. The MobileAccess Wire-it-Once™ technology enables hospitals to cost-efficiently add wireless applications and services without disturbing hospital spaces or disrupting existing services. The solution provides hospitals with a platform that permits future services, reduces maintenance and upgrade costs, and ensures hospital-quality reliability and uptime