Wireless Network Health System Reliable, Scalable
Helium Networks and XiTech Corporation Team Up to Design a Reliable, Scalable and Quality 802.11 Wireless Network for Pittsburgh Mercy Health System
Helium Networks announced today that its wireless networking design and troubleshooting tool -- Rollabout -- was selected for use by XiTech Corporation in designing and deploying Mercy Hospital's 802.11 wireless network. "Designing a reliable and an enterprise class wireless network is a difficult task," says Ray Geyer, network engineer for XiTech. "By using Rollabout, we're able to virtually locate and move wireless access points to ensure the best possible wireless coverage, easily assign channel frequencies with minimum interference and provide the best and cost effective solution to our customer. "Mercy continuously evaluates new technologies that will assist us in providing the highest quality of care to our patients. Using wireless networks will provide our physicians and nurses with immediate access to patient medical records, prescriptions, and other information that is critical to the patient's treatment," says Steve D. Adams, chief information officer, Pittsburgh Mercy Health System. "We believe these changes will help us to maintain quality, expedite the care we provide to our patients, and enhance physician and nurse satisfaction. "We're very glad to be selected by the Pittsburgh Mercy Health System, a nation's leading health care institution for the wireless design work," says, Chintu Parikh, VP of Business Development and Marketing for Helium Networks. Wireless LANs deployed for improving the quality of patient care in hospitals like Mercy play a mission critical role and they need to provide robust, reliable, secure and interference free wireless network connections. Chintu further adds, "Our patented Rollabout solution takes the guesswork out of designing the network, develops a high quality and optimized WLAN design and at the same time reduces the cost of designing and maintaining Wi-Fi networks by 50 percent."
About Helium Networks ( http://www.heliumnetworks.com ) Helium Networks Inc., headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, provides innovative, Wireless LAN design and maintenance products and services for businesses, academic, manufacturing, government and health care institutions. Helium has an exclusive license to commercialize patented wireless technology called Rollabout developed at Carnegie Mellon University, a world's premier educational and research institute for wireless and broadband communication technologies.
About Pittsburgh Mercy Health System ( http://www.mercylink.org ) Pittsburgh Mercy Health System (PMHS) is a multi-institutional system of Catholic health care that was founded in 1847 by the Sisters of Mercy when they established Mercy Hospital, the first hospital in Pittsburgh and the first Mercy Hospital in the world. PMHS is ranked #3 on the Pittsburgh Business Times' 2003 list of Largest Pittsburgh-Area Hospital Organizations, and #20 on its list of 50 Largest Pittsburgh-Area Employers, with more than 5,300 associates.
About XiTech Corporation ( http://www.xitech.com ) XiTech Corporation was incorporated in February of 1995 with the expressed intent of providing professional services and products to the tri-state area of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. These professional services are specifically in several distinct, but complementary disciplines, such as: Computer Data Networking, Client Server Solutions and Microsoft Windows NT Server, Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 Training and Consulting
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