Enhancing Healthcare Facilities with Smart Technologies and Structured Cabling (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Healthcare facilities are continually evolving to better serve the needs of patients, doctors and staff. To meet regulatory compliance for patient satisfaction, operational efficiency and clinical process of care, a modern hospital must leverage smart technologies throughout the facility. Hospital administrators, IT and facility managers are specifically tasked with the challenge of providing safe and secure settings, network connectivity, critical power, improved communication and ultimately interoperability of this infrastructure. The first step in creating a safe and secure environment for staff, patients and visitors is risk management, which can be achieved with a six-layered physical security approach. Deploying a layered security strategy can provide you with the ability to deter, detect, delay, deny and defend at every layer of your healthcare facility, including the property perimeter, reception and registration, the emergency room, specialty wards, diagnostic areas and pharmaceutical assets. More than ever before, a high-performance structured cabling system plays an essential role in operating a modern healthcare facility. Without it, you cannot support the rapid growth in healthcare-connected technology. According to HIMSS, 47% of hospitals expect to expand their use of connected technologies in the next few years. Creating versatile physical layer connectivity depends on well-designed network flexibility, universal cabling topology, media selection, wireless mobility and consideration for multi-application support. Multi-patient care requires uninterrupted power throughout a facility, ensuring that critical systems are always available. Building a critical power chain can help healthcare facilities achieve an always-on environment while reducing costs through operational efficiency. A critical power chain for healthcare environments should include facility power, condition power, backup power, efficient power and monitored power. Good communication is a driving force behind positive patient experiences and outcomes. Supporting a fast-paced healthcare environment and enabling new technologies can help deliver targeted engagement in all parts of the facility. Solutions include how to manage notifications in various situations, how to ensure connectivity for mobile devices, how to manage communication with first responders utilising public safety desks, how to reduce noise to provide a quiet and therapeutic environment, and how to use digital signage to communicate to patients, staff and visitors. Enabling the internet of medical things in a healthcare facility allows you to analyse your environment and make real-time adjustments to improve patient satisfaction, operational efficiency and clinical process of care. The five senses of an intelligent hospital include environmental monitoring, visual management, communication enablement, security integration and network connectivity. Annexter's infrastructure as a platform model provides you with flexibility for budgets and more choices when selecting current and future technology to advance patient care and improve your healthcare facility's operational efficiency.