1. Medical Communications Will
Change the Vision of the Future
Presented by
Alan Dash
Senior Consultant
The Sextant Group
October 22, 2015

2. AGENDA
 Medical Communications defined
 Siloed vs. converged
 Short term vision of future
 Long term vision of future
 How to

3. 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

4. HEALTHCARE TERMS IMPACTING MED COMM

5. CHALLENGE …
Complex facilities with disparate Med Comm systems
managed by silos within the organization

6. SOLUTION …
Complex facilities with disparate Med Comm systems
connected by technology

7. QUICK WORKSHOP / QUESTION
Which are you?

8. PLANNING FOR TODAYS HC
One team, One vision

9. 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 (?)
DesktopPhones
WallPhones
Internet/Extranet
Firewall
AV Mixed Media Technologies
PC’s
Printers
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

10. UNDERSTAND INTERCOMMUNICATIONS

11. UNDERSTAND WHAT WORKS WITH WHO

12. COMMUNICATE ACROSS DOMAINS

13. FINISHED PRODUCT – THE END

14. SLIDE INTO FUTURE
Before we talk about tomorrow

15. FOUR NEW (OLD) FUTURE (YESTERDAY) TECHNOLOGIES
“We are stuck with
technology when what
we really want is just
stuff that works.”
– Douglas Adams

16. REMOTE HEALTH CARE
Critical Access /
Remote Physician
Consultation
Continuing Medical
Education
Home / Personal
Health Care
Population Health
Management

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

18. TELE-HEALTH - WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES

19. TELE-HEALTH - WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES
EEG
Vision
Heart
Blood
Pressure
Activity
Implants
Resparation
Telephone
Tablet
Smartphone
MBAN
WAN
MAN
CAN
LAN
Networks
PAN

20. THE FUTURE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES

21. 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)

22. WORLD FIBER MAP
US State Department

23. US FIBER MAP

24. MAPS OF FIBER IN NEBRASKA
Zayo
Unite SE Nebraska

25. MAP OF FIBER OVERLAY ON HOSPITALS

26. WIRELESS NETWORKS

27. ‘YESTERDAY’S’ WIRED NETWORKS

28. TODAYS WIRELESS NETWORKS

29. 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

30. MEDICAL TOWER OF BABEL

31. NOT THE SAME! TERMS DEMYSTIFIED
CONSOLIDATION INTEGRATION INTERFACE

32. THREE C MODEL
CONSOLIDATION
COLLAPSING
INTEGRATION
COMMUNICATING
INTERFACE
CONNECTING

33. DEEP DIVE: WHAT IS CONSOLIDATION?
COLLAPSING

34. DEEP DIVE: WHAT IS INTEGRATION?
COMMUNICATING

35. DEEP DIVE: WHAT IS MEANT BY ‘INTERFACE’?
CONNECTING

36. NOT THE SAME! TERMS DEMYSTIFIED
CONSOLIDATION
COLLAPSING
INTEGRATION
COMMUNICATING
INTERFACE
CONNECTING

37. 6 STEPS TO DESIGN & IMPLEMENT A CONVERGED MED COMM
SYSTEM
 Assemble team
 Establish vision
 Define systems
 Define connection points
 Install
 Assess
Patient
Clinical
Facilities
IT
AdminEngineer
Planners
Architect

38. END