Recent News: Florida hospital goes wireless with new tower

DAYTONA BEACH, FL, June 15, 2009 -- Halifax Health's new 500,000-square-foot, high-tech medical facility in Daytona Beach, Fla., is poised to open this week equipped with a wireless network aimed at boosting mobility and productivity for clinicians and staff.

The network from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Meru Networks is based on the latest 802.11n wireless standard. It spans all 10 floors of the new North Tower, including 180 private rooms and an 89,000-square-foot emergency department containing the area's only trauma center.

The network will provide connectivity for mobile workstations that support applications such as electronic medical records, bedside bar-code scanning for drug-dosage verification, and remote video interpreting for hard-of-hearing patients.

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