Wi-Fi Security Provider Bluesocket Adds Three Hospitals to its List
Bluesocket Adds Three Hospitals to Growing List of 100+ Healthcare Provider Customers
DALLAS, TX - HIMSS Conference - -/9 Feb, 2005 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- Bluesocket, Inc., the leading vendor of products that secure and manage Wi-Fi networks, today announced that Baptist Health, Mount Carmel Health, and Palmetto Health have selected Bluesocket to provide secure and manageable wireless LAN solutions that enable their mobile staff to access healthcare information when and where they need it based upon hospital policies.
Bluesocket currently has 900+ healthcare, education, hospitality, government and corporate organizations using its wireless networking products.
"Installing a wireless LAN gives us the flexibility of integrating our wireless devices with our existing LAN, in addition to giving us security and role-based policy enforcement, where we can grant access privileges depending on the end user's role in the hospital," said Dennis Strobel, Director of Information Systems for Baptist Health, a major healthcare system with more than 80 facilities including medical centers, family clinics, therapy and wellness centers based in Little Rock, Arkansas.
(http://www.baptist-health.org)
"While looking for a way to improve patient care in our hospitals, one of the most promising technologies that we came across was wireless networking," said Terry Sutter, Director of Infrastructure and Operations, Mount Carmel Health. "Our end goals in implementing wireless networking were to improve drug delivery for thousands of our in-patients, avoid administration-related mistakes, and improve the productivity of our physicians and nurse practitioners." (http://www.mchs.com)
According to a recent study by market research firm, The FocalPoint Group, (http://www.thefpgroup.com), the U.S. healthcare industry will invest as much as $7 billion by 2010 on wireless technologies alone. Areas of most interest to healthcare providers include strategies to reduce medical errors and to provide rapid electronic access to medical records via laptops and PDAs.
"Not to be overlooked are security concerns," said John Williams, of The FocalGroup. "Hospitals must comply with HIPAA rules that mandate patient confidentiality. Therefore any wireless technology ought to include controls that govern user access privileges, encryption, authorization and authentication in the management of these wireless networks and the people and devices that use them."
Bluesocket & Mobile Medicine
The nature of healthcare is based on mobile professionals. Bluesocket is working to manage mobile handheld devices ensuring that doctors, nurses and other staff have secure wireless access to information as they move throughout a healthcare centre enabling accurate data entry right at the point of care: a patient's bedside.
Bluesocket has numerous healthcare customer deployments around the world where its WLAN solutions help secure patient records, authenticate users and manage Wireless LANs. Bluesocket's support for security and management controls facilitates compliance with mandated privacy guidelines (such as HIPAA) essential to hospital IT operations.
Most recently Bluesocket announced BlueSecureT, a dedicated wireless LAN monitoring and intrusion protection system to protect an organization's network from wireless-based attacks. BlueSecure includes a server platform that provides WLAN administrators with an intuitive management interface to view all user activities, neighboring wireless LANs, rogue or unauthorized Access Points, outside threats posed by "war driving" or man-in-the-middle attacks, and advanced correlation to detect wireless attacks.
The BlueSecure Server works with the BlueSecure RF Sensor, a purpose-built radio frequency (RF) listening device that supports 802.11 b/a/g as an overlay to enterprises with or without an existing WLAN. BlueSecure is vendor-agnostic, working with any vendor APs or Wi-Fi client devices so that no changes to existing wireless or wired infrastructure are required.
About Bluesocket
Founded in 1999, Bluesocket, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of systems to secure and manage wireless local area networks (WLANs) for enterprises, institutions and public access venues in 45 countries worldwide. Thousands of Bluesocket Wireless Gateways are deployed by leading enterprises including Harvard University, Honeywell, Universal Health Services, Toyota and Parker Hannifin and others who require policy-based, open-systems solutions to secure, manage, and profit from their WLANs.
(http://www.bluesocket.com)
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