$100,000 to fuel three of Inova's mobility efforts

Inova Health System, a Falls Church, Va.-based healthcare provider that serves more than a million people each year, is set to fund three key initiatives at its Telemedicine Institute's Mobility Programs, thanks to a $100,000 gift from Atlanta-based AirWatch.

The Telestroke Program will provide neurologists with mobile technology and software to improve their stroke response times and administer drugs in a more timely and efficient manner, according to a jointly released statement. AirWatch’s gift also will fund a program to examine the impact of mobility technology on physician inpatient productivity, with the pilot being conducted at Inova Fairfax Hospital’s Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit.

Additionally, Inova will fund a home-health pilot program, which will provide home health nurses with tablets to improve the quality of care and productivity.

For AirWatch, this gift is money well spent. The developer of enterprise-grade smartphone and mobile device management (MDM) software has maintained a long-term focus on healthcare, due to its unique capabilities, which include broad functionality for WinMobile devices, the ability to monitor device batteries in Carts on Wheels used by nurses, and full support of 802.11 mobile deployments. The company also guarantees HIPPA compliance within the mobile environment, a plus for security-conscious healthcare providers.

Beyond MDM, AirWatch provides hospitals--including Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta--with real-time monitoring, management and support for their campuses’ public wireless access. AirWatch’s flexible, cost-effective and robust wired and wireless solutions drive improvements in productivity, efficiency and transparency across a hospital’s entire operation.

Photo obtained from AirWatch.