Selected IntelliVue patient monitors can operate wirelessly on Philips 1.4 GHz common wireless infrastructure—the same flexible, scalable, cellular infrastructure that supports the IntelliVue Telemetry System.
Philips common wireless infrastructure uses a cellular architecture with Smart-hopping technology to provide reliable two-way communications between wireless monitoring devices and the IntelliVue Information Center. Smart-hopping technology dodges interference and seeks out the strongest available signal to achieve seamless connections everywhere on the network.
Real network strength includes flexibility
As wireless devices proliferate, our robust clinical network will evolve with you to support your wired and wireless data flows. For clinical users, the network should be essentially invisible. The information you rely on should simply be available when and where it’s needed, whether the source is a wireless monitor, a networked bedside monitor, or a clinical information system.
To maximize return from your investment, our 1.4 GHz wireless bedside monitors operate on the same infrastructure as our IntelliVue Telemetry System.
WMTS (Wireless Medical Telemetry Service)
WMTS is reserved for transmission of life-critical data in healthcare facilities. It’s also licensed spectrum, which gives hospitals that go through the licensing process the advantage of primary user status if an interfering system shows up.
In contrast, the ISM band (in which 802.11 systems operate) is a large, unlicensed spectrum space for a growing variety of devices that can be used to transmit virtually any kind of data.
The IntelliVue Clinical Network is the enabling framework for your clinical data flows
The IntelliVue Clinical Network is designed specifically to manage flows of time-critical, round-the-clock patient monitoring data – wired and wireless. Isolation (physical and/or logical) protects the network from many of the day-today hazards of business networks, including viruses and transmission delays.
At the same time, the IntelliVue Clinical Network can maintain a controlled connection with the hospital LAN so that useful patient information, such as lab results or PACS still images, can be delivered to wired bedside monitors or the central station without the risk of disrupting the flow of physiologic data or alarms.
It all works together
The IntelliVue Information Center is the heart of the clinical network, combining advanced patient surveillance capabilities across the network with state-of-the-art clinical decision support tools. Further, web-based access enables everything from better informed consults to the remote ICU care model.