Simi Valley hospital goes wireless October 25, 2010 Bernie Monegain, Contributing Editor 0 print Related NewsIT help wanted at Catholic Health InitiativesWireless networks show potential for monitoring patients' breathingSurvey shows how hospitals IT uses compare to patients'Wayne Memorial Hospital implements nurse call integrationVersus, Salamander introduce patient tracking for mass casualty disasters With the increasing use of electronic health records in California and across the nation, Carl Elkins, regional CIO for Adventist Health, recognizes the value of clinicians, patients and visitors being able to communicate on mobile phones anywhere in the hospital. Simi Valley Hospital, one of 17 hospitals in the Adventist Health system, recently tapped Extenet for a Distributed Antenna System, for its 144-bed patient care tower.
