Minicase NHS Hospitals adopt co-operative WiFi

Questions and Answers
1- Discuss the potential benefits of WiFi in a hospitcal environment?
a- It allows staff members to know about the location of services, and it provides voice telephony for them.
b- Connecting important clinical equipment so that doctors do not have to move from one place to another in order to get information about the patients’ conditions.
c- It allows exchange of information and medical support between hospitals and doctors.
d- Connecting both hospital staff and patients.
e- Provides patients ability to go around hospital more freely.
f- Doctors can provide pharmacies enough information about what medicines the patients want.
g- Increases efficiency in the hospitals by saving time and money.

2- What are the possible difficulties when implementing a WiFi solution in Bart’s hospital?
a- Lack of controllers in which it would be hard to manage.
b- Too many access points that it would be difficult to control efficiently.
c- Causing change in wireless usage in several areas.


3- Discuss the role of the main stakeholders in the successful implementation these new hospital systems?

Stakeholders’ role in the successful implementation of these new hospital systems is providing money and encouraging professional people to complete the task. In addition, it is very important for the stakeholders to know and be familiar with the new technology in health services. So, after the understood that money will be required to implement the ideas and install the technology. Another crucial role of stakeholders is providing sufficient services to the customers through implementing new systems in the businesses they have.