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provide the highest-quality care. Our investment in this Cisco infrastructure is at the core of our

ability to connect our clinicians anytime, anyplace throughout our organization.”

Next Steps

MemorialCare plans to continue building on the wireless infrastructure to provide new capabilities.

First on the agenda is taking advantage of the voice-over-Wi-Fi capabilities of the Cisco network.

The health system is currently piloting a wireless nurse call system at Orange Coast Memorial

Medical Center using Cisco wireless IP phones. The solution allows for instant two-way

communication among nurses and physicians, and allows patients to immediately connect with

their attending nurse. Eventually, Torres expects to extend the wireless nurse call system to all

hospitals in the health system.

MemorialCare is also planning to deploy location services that will use the wireless network to

track medical equipment throughout the hospital, allowing caregivers to immediately locate assets

when they need them. MemorialCare also plans to integrate biomedical devices into the network,

allowing heart monitors, electrocardiograph machines, and other critical monitoring systems to

transmit patient data directly to the Epic system in real time.

“We are just at the tip of the iceberg right now,” says Torres. “As we begin to extend the network to

new locations, applications, and devices, our wireless infrastructure is going to become even more

essential to supporting the continuum of care. There are a lot of exciting possibilities, and I am

confident that with Cisco behind us, our network will accommodate whatever we want to do.”

For More Information

To find out more about the Cisco Unified Wireless Network Solution, visit:

http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedwireless

To find out more about Cisco Healthcare solutions, visit:

http://www.cisco.com/go/healthcare

To find out more about MemorialCare Health System, visit:

http://www.memorialcare.org/about/core.cfm

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