Medical Communications Will

Change the Vision of the Future

Presented by

Alan DashSenior Consultant

The Sextant Group

October 22, 2015

AGENDA

Medical Communications defined

Siloed vs. converged

Short term vision of future

Long term vision of future

How to

MED COMM DEFINED

Healthcare technology• Nurse Call, RFID, Infant

Protection Systems, Patient

Education

IT• Networks, wired, wireless,

Outside Plant, Data Centers

SE• Video Surveillance, Access

Control, Intrusion Detection

AV• Audio / Video for presentation

and recording

HEALTHCARE TERMS IMPACTING MED COMM

CHALLENGE …

Complex facilities with disparate Med Comm systems

managed by silos within the organization

SOLUTION …

Complex facilities with disparate Med Comm systems

connected by technology

QUICK WORKSHOP / QUESTION

Which are you?

PLANNING FOR TODAYS HC

One team, One vision

THE END

A Fully Converged Med Comm System

VoIP or other wireless

IP communications

Data Center/Server Farms/

ADMIN and Applications

Mobile Computers

Ethernet Backbone for all IP Devices

Wireless Ethernet Backbone for all IP Devices

SECURITY

NETWORK

Code System

Employee

Timekeeping/

Master Clocks

Overhead

Paging

Clinical

Services

Cell phone

NetworkCell Phones/GSM/G3/G4

Firewall

Voice Network/PBX System

Wireless

(non-

802.11)

2-way Radio System

For Facilities

And Police/Security

Private

Wireless

Network (?)

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Internet/Extranet

Firewall

AV Mixed Media Technologies

PC

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Prin

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BMS

Integration

Wayfinding

IPTV

Network

MIDDLE-WARE

VoIP or other wireless

IP communications

Mobile Computers

Wireless Ethernet Backbone for Voice and Data

Cell phone

NetworkCell Phones/GSM/G3/G4

Voice Network/PBX System

2-way Radio System

For Facilities

And Police/Security

Private

Wireless

Network (?)

Data Network

Monitoring System

Building

Management

Integration

WayfindingSECURITY

NETWORK

ICT SM

Network

UNDERSTAND INTERCOMMUNICATIONS

UNDERSTAND WHAT WORKS WITH WHO

COMMUNICATE ACROSS DOMAINS

FINISHED PRODUCT – THE END

SLIDE INTO FUTURE

Before we talk about tomorrow

FOUR NEW (OLD) FUTURE (YESTERDAY) TECHNOLOGIES

“We are stuck with

technology when what

we really want is just

stuff that works.”

– Douglas Adams

REMOTE HEALTH CARE

Critical Access /

Remote Physician

Consultation

Continuing Medical

Education

Home / Personal

Health Care

Population Health

Management

TELE-MEDICINE TRENDS

http://hin.com/blog/2015/07/20/infographic-telemedicine-comes-of-age/

TELE-HEALTH - WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES

TELE-HEALTH - WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES

EEG

Vision

HeartBlood

Pressure

Activity

Implants

Resparation

Telephone

Tablet

Smartphone

MBAN

WAN

MAN

CAN

LAN

Networks

PAN

THE FUTURE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES

WHY THE TIME IS NOW FOR REMOTE TECHNOLOGY

Jean-Daniel Colladon ‘light pipe’ -

1884

NEC/Corning 1.05 petabits/s

(1015 bits per second)

(1,000,000,000,000,000)

WORLD FIBER MAP

US State Department

US FIBER MAP

MAPS OF FIBER IN NEBRASKA

Zayo

Unite SE Nebraska

MAP OF FIBER OVERLAY ON HOSPITALS

WIRELESS NETWORKS

‘YESTERDAY’S’ WIRED NETWORKS

TODAYS WIRELESS NETWORKS

THE FUTURE OF WIDE AREA WIRELESS

Two schools of thought

on wireless for

wearables:

• Repurposing existing,

little-used frequency

bands

- or -

• Using smartphones as a

conduit to broadband

MEDICAL TOWER OF BABEL

NOT THE SAME! TERMS DEMYSTIFIED

CONSOLIDATION INTEGRATION INTERFACE

THREE C MODEL

CONSOLIDATION

COLLAPSING

INTEGRATION

COMMUNICATING

INTERFACE

CONNECTING

DEEP DIVE: WHAT IS CONSOLIDATION?

COLLAPSING

DEEP DIVE: WHAT IS INTEGRATION?

COMMUNICATING

DEEP DIVE: WHAT IS MEANT BY ‘INTERFACE’?

CONNECTING

NOT THE SAME! TERMS DEMYSTIFIED

CONSOLIDATION

COLLAPSING

INTEGRATION

COMMUNICATING

INTERFACE

CONNECTING

6 STEPS TO DESIGN & IMPLEMENT A CONVERGED MED COMM

SYSTEM

Assemble team

Establish vision

Define systems

Define connection points

Install

AssessPatient

Clinical

Facilities

IT

AdminEngineer

Planners

Architect

END