Medical Electronics
Keeping the healthcare sector thriving
By Todd Rigby, director of sales, Rajant Corporation T
he global pandemic stretched medical resources thinly. In many locations, temporary treatment centres were required to supplement local hospitals for triage, testing, and care due to the overflow of patients. An additional factor in standing up these temporary facilities was working out voice/data communications logistics. Healthcare has increasingly become more dependent on technology, with Artificial Intelligence-driven devices and wearables being used to monitor humans and track life-saving medical equipment. All of this technology requires reliable and secure communication with the hospital’s IT infrastructure.
When a wave of illness or a healthcare crisis strikes, it can quickly and systematically overrun a medical system’s capacity. Not only does this result in increased levels of anxiety and concern, but it also introduces a problematic situation for teams caring for the seriously ill as they may run out of emergency medical space or have to manage with a reduced number of patient beds.
Optimising medical technology Hospitals will utilise what is available to urgently meet the demand and set up emergency medical tents and inflatable hospital shelters outside a medical facility. However, the temporary nature of these facilities could mean that medical staff do not have access to all the equipment and connectivity required to run an efficient medical site. Suppose teams have access to a rapidly deployable wireless kit that requires no network cabling and can be configured in advance of emergencies. In that case, when you need to stand up a pop-up treatment facility, network connectivity can be deployed in short order, with no drama.
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hospital infrastructure in pop-up centres and triage tents can stem the flow of a crisis worsening. Having the technological tools to spot active infections is also vital for the well-being of medical staff and patients, as this can prove decisive in keeping people safe. Thermal imaging can be used to identify individuals with an elevated body temperature, possibly indicating an active infection and therefore controlling the spread with early detection.
Many wireless solutions on the market suffer the same weakness, a static configuration. The thing about emergency events is that they are rarely predictable. Therefore, you should select the one network for your emergency services that can self- optimise to handle changing environmental and operational conditions. Since the Covid-19 outbreak, we saw countless news stories of emergency responders and medical personnel
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overwhelmed by their demands. One thing they have in common is there isn’t enough help. They need a network that works as hard as they do and can self-optimise without getting someone from IT to fix issues.
Rajant playing a pivotal role Rajant is a wireless networking company that supports several multifaceted industry verticals, such as mining, energy, transportation, agriculture, and rural broadband. With vast experience in the military world providing networks in combat “hot zones”, Rajant’s technology is reliable and mobile. Rajant desired to make a valuable contribution towards the heroic health effort from the onset of the pandemic. Its robust and redundant multi-frequency network was ideally suited to address emergency needs. Rajant Kinetic Mesh can operate remotely, is easily transportable, and is rapidly
deployable. It is cost-competitive and fully compatible with existing IT infrastructure. Its proprietary protocol InstaMesh is what enables best-in-class reliability and performance. With its mil-spec security, Rajant can protect patient medical records, and medical facilities can rest assured that its data will be secure. Rajant is the only wireless network manufacturer with certification from the US Government for its highest level of encryption, and its security methods exceed HIPAA requirements.
Enabling rapid deployment The Kinetic Mesh network was built from the ground up to support secure, mobile, rapid deployment. Rajant InstaMesh allows multi-radio nodes, known as BreadCrumb, to automatically make redundant connections with other nodes, providing the backbone for seamless communications. Adhering to open standards when communicating with third-
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