{"id":20519,"date":"2025-03-02T16:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T15:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=20519"},"modified":"2025-03-02T16:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T15:39:48","slug":"how-mobile-connectivity-at-hospitals-is-improving-patient-and-provider-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=20519","title":{"rendered":"How mobile connectivity at hospitals is improving patient and provider experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

AT&T has always focused on pushing the realm of what\u2019s possible and using connectivity to improve the world around us<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Joe Drygas, Vice President of Government, Education and Medical for AT&T<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

One way we do that is by improving the experience at important community institutions like hospitals, which are going through a remarkable digital transformation just like the rest of the world. Hospitals are full of new devices and software ready to improve patient experiences and care \u2013 but to do so, they need secure, reliable, and scalable connectivity that can support those cutting-edge capabilities.
\nThat\u2019s where my team comes in. Across the country, we are helping hospitals modernize their wireless networks with next-generation technology that helps bring patients and providers closer together. We spend most of our time talking to hospital CIOs about the types of health care innovation they\u2019re trying to unlock \u2013 so let me tell you what we\u2019re hearing from them.
\nLet\u2019s start here: Hospital staff are tired of relying on bulky workstations to access their patients’ medical records \u2013 especially since those machines\u2019 long log-in times distract doctors and nurses from being able to interact with patients. To solve for this, we\u2019ve helped hospitals transition to smartphones and tablets that have electronic health records apps containing the information they need.
\nOf course, this requires a steady and reliable connection \u2013 especially since providers also use those tablets to monitor care updates, schedules for rounds, patients\u2019 pain levels, and other important information. And those same devices also display high-resolution medical imaging, which can require a high-performance connection to load \u2013 but it can be easy for Wi-Fi to lag as it gets overloaded with different applications.
\nPeople, though, aren\u2019t the only things that move \u2013 the same goes for medical carts stocked with supplies, medications and life-saving equipment. Hospital staff need to move these throughout the building as they go from patient to patient \u2013 but as they do so, they get handed off from Wi-Fi access point to Wi-Fi access point, which causes authentication issues for some medical applications while doctors are trying to take patient notes. Not very seamless.
\nOur 5G connectivity helps solve for these pain points. It’s designed to process data closer to the user instead of at distant servers and effectively puts more computing power in the hospitals\u2019 hands \u2013 a particularly useful development as hospitals look to leverage the capabilities of artificial intelligence. Hospitals across the country, including Children\u2019s Health\u2120, the leading pediatric health care system in North Texas, are turning to 5G to enhance quality of care, patient safety, and communication.
\nWe also provide the only nationwide platform dedicated to first responders \u2013 FirstNet\u00ae, Built with AT&T. With FirstNet, emergency department doctors and nurses have access to always-on priority and preemption across Band 14 and all AT&T commercial bands, meaning that caretakers can stay connected when it matters most. Reliable, unthrottled connectivity can help hospital staff save lives.
\nIn addition to supporting life-saving care and applications, 5G gives hospitals heightened security through enhanced levels of encryption. And it helps hospitals separate enterprise and patient traffic, as well as data sent by connected devices \u2013 the influx of which creates many new endpoints and can represent new threat planes.
\nBut the most exciting applications for 5G may be the next-generation applications they enable. Picture a hospital in the not-too-distant future with wheelchairs, gurneys, robots and other infrastructure that moves autonomously throughout the building \u2013 such a system requires low-latency connections that enable those devices to turn or stop on a dime.
\nThese ultra-responsive connections are exactly what 5G provides. And it\u2019s the same level of service that\u2019s required for augmented and virtual reality technology that\u2019s starting to change the healthcare landscape. AR\/VR can be used for a range of use cases like training clinicians or as therapy tool for patients \u2013 something we\u2019re already enabling in partnership with Mynd Immersive therapeutics for older adults.
\nUltimately, this is the kind of technology that can make a real difference for people, whether they be health care providers or visiting patients. And while I love getting into the technical weeds as much as anyone in the wireless business, these real-world experiences are what we care about most.<\/p>\n

Above, Joe Drygas, Vice President of Government, Education and Medical for AT&T \/ image credited to AT&T<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AT&T has always focused on pushing the realm of what\u2019s possible and using connectivity to improve the world around us   By Joe Drygas, Vice President of Government, Education and Medical for AT&T One way we do that is by improving the experience at important community institutions like hospitals, which are going through a remarkable … <\/p>\n

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