Short clip: Harvard Medical School on building a wireless hospital

November 28, 2006, 10:17am PST | Length: 00:01:14
The CIO of Harvard Medical School, John Halamka, discusses the challenges of setting up a wireless network that can be accessed by doctors and staff, as well as patients and their families.

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Short clip: Harvard Medical School on building a wireless hospital

>> All right, we have 2,000,000 square feet of wireless at the hospital's I oversee, and of course, we want patients and their families to also access the same wireless. Now that's rather tricky. You have to build access points that can both do highly secure, high quality connections and access points with effectively no security for any patient or family member who opens up a laptop. And you'd never want that patient downloading a streaming video, to somehow impact the quality of service for the doctor's and nurse's who have mission critical jobs to do. Wireless roll out in that kind of environment has taken quite a lot of engineering.

>> And how far are you along that path to making it successful to split the network in that way?

>> So as of last Friday, we are alive with patients and doctors in a split network. The doctors get secure access using appropriate security protocols, EP FAST, TEKIP, MIC, W PA, whereas the patients and families, have the standard unsecured network and it actually goes over a different Internet path, so if they want to download the latest in streaming videos or look at their stock quotes, no problem. It doesn't impact clinical care.

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