P2S Magazine Issue 1 | Page 5

escorted you out of the building immediately. In today’s world having your personal phone on and with your person is encouraged to ensure that doctors and authorized medical staff can use the patient’s phone as a tool for location status, as well as, ensuring the patient can control lighting and air-conditioning from their cell phone residing on the bedside table. With the growth of patient and guest services access reaching current levels in excess of 46% of network utilization, there is no sign of decreasing need or the slowing of technology advancements. The current healthcare campus technology environment is fitted with separate but managed guest / patient access that will not only be robust but secure, enabling access for hospital staff and patients so they can interact swiftly and efficiently. Scalable infrastructure is not only in play with proposed technology designs, it is operational at countless medical campuses today. New technolo gies are being tested and developed for a myriad of interfaces with electronic healthcare solutions and the associated patient portals as we speak. With the growth of patient and guest services access reaching current levels in excess of 46% of network utilization, there is no sign of decreasing need or the slowing of technology advancements. Once a healthcare provider’s member arrives within the Wi-Fi zone, they will be prompted to re-join the guest network, either through their personal device 5