“When you’re not worried about dropping a video call with a patient or getting hacked, just imagine how much more productive you can be.” – Emily Engel, says enterprise regional director of sales at Qualcomm.
Traditional WiFi networks are falling short of sufficing the connectivity needs of hospitals.
Common connectivity problems with WiFi cause operational hindrances and deliver a bad visitor experience.
Moreover, WiFi congestion and dead zones in the hospital buildings can severely interfere with operations. Sometimes resulting in unrecoverable fatalities.
To overcome the WiFi issues, hospitals are now implementing a WiFi-DAS hybrid and some are even replacing the WiFi altogether.
Here are 5 ways hospitals can benefit from installing in-building DAS at their facilities.
Better Teleclinics
Most hospitals have a general WiFi connection – doctors, visitors, nurses, and guests all use the same connection.
Basically, priority tasks are executed on the same network as the non-priority tasks. This can create difficulties for doctors dealing with teleclinic cases.
If there’s an in-building DAS installed to complement WiFi, it’ll at least reduce the non-priority load on the WiFi.
This will leave more WiFi capacity available for doctors to deal with online cases without network disruptions. Or at least lessen the disturbance significantly.
Finally, dropped calls won’t spoil the teleclinic experience.
Better Emergency Response
When there’s connection all over the hospital building, communication will likely never become a reason for a casualty.
Imagine being in a dead WiFi zone in a situation where the difference between life and death is just a few seconds. Even an instant alert via text message can be lifesaving.
So, emergency-prone places like hospitals and healthcare facilities should especially have their connectivity issues sorted by DAS.
In-Building DAS is Staff Friendly
Hospitals have guest staffing at all times. Sometimes, it’s just for a few hours or a few days.
When nurses, doctors, and other help arrive at the host hospital, they do not like to go around asking for WiFi connections. Plus, several organizations have connectivity steps in place, which can make the task tedious for visitors.
Also, many healthcare professionals have multiple devices that need connectivity.
Network connectivity is always easier for them. Plus, if they need WiFi, they can ask for it or else get to work without connectivity issues.
Better Monitoring
Loaded WiFi networks can cause connection breakages for the monitoring devices.
Result? Contaminated data. Plus, WiFi devices can go down, which can cause the monitoring devices to stop functioning for a significant amount of time.
That’s why many monitoring devices are now available with a 5G connectivity option: it is faster and more reliable for real-time tracking.
Secure Visitor Experience
Many people hesitate to connect to public WiFi.
Because of the rampant cybercrimes, people usually avoid connecting to public WiFis to protect their data.
People will have a better overall experience when they aren’t forced to use WiFi as their only source of internet connectivity.
And it’ll shed off the load so WiFi can be used for other priority tasks.
Conclusion
Standalone WiFi connections fail to meet the connectivity needs of hospital facilities.
It’s time that hospitals say goodbye to dropped calls, dead network zones, and inefficient internet connectivity. And say hello to 24/7 internet connectivity on the premises via in-building DAS.
Combine it with your WiFi connections and witness significantly better connectivity at your hospital facilities.
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