IntelliVue Wireless 802.11 Solution
Technical Data Sheet
Description
IntelliVue Patient Monitors using 802.11 can coexist with other wireless devices such as VoIP phones and mobile appliances on a customer’s enterprise WLAN. A robust and high availability WLAN is required to support the physiological waves, parameters and alarms transmitted from IntelliVue Patient Monitors.
Features
•Leverage existing hospital WLAN
•Operate on 802.11 a/b/g networks
•Utilize advanced encryption and authentication including WPA2-PSK and WPA2-Enterprise
•Enable wireless QoS with support for WMM (Wireless MultiMedia)
Planning and Preparing Your Network
The following are important considerations when planning and preparing the hospital network for a patient monitoring system:
•Discuss expectations and requirements with the clinical users for physiological monitoring.
•Involve information technology staff early to align wireless strategy and decisions and prepare for any potential updates to the wireless network to support a patient monitoring system.
•Review the IntelliVue Customer-supplied Clinical Network (CSCN) Specifications.
•Verify that the current or planned hospital infrastructure complies with the Philips approved 802.11 vendor models and software versions.
•Determine coverage area, including in-room bathrooms, corridors and transport areas.
•Complete an RF site survey to verify that all Philips RF requirements are met.
•Assess compatibility requirements among wireless solutions to avoid coexistence issues.
•Agree on change control, maintenance and management responsibilities among biomedical engineering and information technology staff.
•Consider hospital policies, procedures and standards for wireless medical devices including safety, security and privacy.
•Perform risk assessment for connecting wireless medical devices to the hospital network.
Service Offerings
Philips offers a variety of wireless networking and product-related services for the IntelliVue Patient Monitoring solution based on Philips strong experience with deploying life critical clinical systems.
For customers that want to use their enterprise WLAN on which to run Philips 802.11 IntelliVue Patient Monitors, Philips requires a radio frequency (RF) survey to identify whether the network can support the robust requirements of life critical data. Philips can review an existing RF Survey for compliance with the Philips specification.
Philips networking services include:
•Network design consultation
•Network evaluation
•Radio frequency site survey
•Remote go-live assistance
Helpful Resources
When considering operating IntelliVue Patient Monitors on your enterprise network, there are a number of resources available to provide additional guidance. They include:
•IEC 80001-2-3: Application of risk management for IT-networks incorporating medical devices -- Guidance for wireless networks
•IEC 80001-1:2010 Application of risk management for IT-networks incorporating medical devices -- Part 1: Roles, responsibilities and activities
•IEC 60601-1-1 - Medical Electrical Equipment Part 1-1: General Requirements for Safety
•AAMI TIR-18:2010 Guidance on electromagnetic compatibility of medical devices in healthcare facilities
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