World-Wide Trends of Wi-Fi in Healthcare

World-Wide Trends of Enterasys recently conducted a worldwide study regarding adoption and usage of the "Life-Critical Wireless Healthcare Network." Wi-Fi The results were surprising! in Healthcare 78% of hospitals are allowing some physicians to utilize personally-owned devices at the point of care 30% of respondents are not utilizing Wi-Fi for patient/guest access 32% of respondents are not using technology to enforce BYOD policy on the Wi-Fi 88% of all hospitals are currently using mobile EHR applications 93% North America 80% Global 82% of hospitals in North America are allowing mobile EHR access on While only 70% physician-owned devices of hospitals worldwide allow access via personaly-owned mobile devices 28% You Tube in of hospitals replied their caregivers are utilizing social media for clinical use 71% of hospitals in North America have biomedical devices 37% accessing the clinical Wi-Fi Worldwide З% of hospitals ALREADY have of telemetry/infusion devices on the Wi-Fi 100% 37% of respondents are not happy with the coverage of their current Wi-Fi 32% of respondents are not satisfied with the performance of their current Wi-Fi solution 63% ||||||||| | of respondents replied that their Wi-Fi is very important or critical to the success of achieving government regulations such as Meaningful Use 36% of hospitals surveyed responded that they will complete wireless edge within 3 years 54% of respondents report they upgrade their wireless network every 3 years For more information: www.enterasys.com/healthcare a enterasys Secure Networks"