7 steps to optimize your hospital's wireless network for secure text messaging

7 STEPS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR HOSPITAL’S WIRELESS NETWORK FOR SECURE TEXT MESSAGING

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Marc Bloom, M.D., NYU Langone Medical Center

"Our entire hospital communications wouldcollapse without wireless technology.”

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Identify what

networks users will

be connectin

g to

Physician_BYOD

STEP 1

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Step 2:

Elevate Wi-Fi SLAs to business critical

STEP 2

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Conduct site surveys and field testing

to verify SLAs

STEP 3

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Revise your wireless funding model if necessary

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Improvecoverage

of Wi-Fi and

mobile networks

STEP 5

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“Seventy-five percent of Americanssay one week without Wi-Fi would leave them grumpier thanone week without coffee.”

9Ensure redundancy of all components

Ensure required ports are not restricted

Avoid captive portals

Optimize IP release and renew

Keep SSIDs to a minimum

Ensure capacity for IPs and bandwidth

Leverage access control software

Optimize placement of access points

Carve out network for mobile/BYOD

Optimize coverage footprint

10 Best Practices

Optimize wireless networks per industry best practices

STEP 6

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Do Not Disturb enabled

10 Lessons Learned

Document things that cause delays and educate users

Low power mode enabled

Push notifications off

Port restrictions

Sleeping devices

No simultaneous voice and data

Captive portals

Poor network architecture

Lack of coverage

Restricting background data

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No push notification

STEP 7

11Lack of coveragePoor network architectureCaptive portals / web authNo simultaneous voice and dataSleeping devices

STEP 7 (continued)

Educate users on causes of delays

due to lack of network

connectivity

12Push Notifications onAvoid Do Not DisturbAvoid low power modeAvoid restricting background dataAvoid some task killers

STEP 7 (continued)

Educate users on causes of

delays due to no push

notifications

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“71% of all mobile communications flows over Wi-Fi.”The Wi-Fi Alliance

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Revise WirelessFunding Model

SUMMARY

Improve Coverage

Make SLAs Business Critical

Identify Networks

Conduct Testingto Verify SLAs

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Optimize Wireless

EducateUsers

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