“The desire to expand the number of services that use the wireless network also must be weighed against increasingly strict security and compliance regulations for patient information.”
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many different devices: just saying no. “Every day there’s a new service that wants to use the wireless network. There will be more business needs than available bandwidth,” the Swedish Medical Center’s Horsley said. Even the additional bandwidth that will come with
802.11n upgrades isn’t limitless and will only delay the hard choices that will have to be made. “At some point, we’ll have to pick and choose what services to run on the network,” Horsley said. The desire to expand the number of services that use
the wireless network also must be weighed against increasingly strict security and compliance regulations for patient information. With such critical data on the network, restricting which services use the network and when might turn into a sound wireless network management policy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stan Gibson is a Boston-based contributing writer.
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