Sprint Remote Access Solutions for Healthcare

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Sprint understands the needs of today's growing and evolving healthcare facilities. No longer is staff bound to a single facility, lab, or clinic. They are becoming more mobile in order to be responsive to patient needs, interfacing with other caregivers, insurance companies, and accessing data. It's all done in an effort to boost care quality. Improved connectivity has generated a whole new breed of healthcare worker who has proven that added connectivity affords them freedom from restriction to one clinical setting. This affordable solution allows your team to interface with many clinics, labs, and hospitals to get the diagnosis you want at a level of connectivity everyone appreciates and expects.

Mobile Workers

Healthcare workers are constantly on the go, and making patients healthy fast is their first priority. Physicians and nurses can provide faster care to more patients if they don't have to check back with the nurse's station to pull files, enter information, and get lab results. Sprint can help staff become more productive with a number of flexible options. Our innovative portfolio of wireless messaging services tailor made for medical staff includes:

• Wireless email/PIM (personal information manager)—Data-enabled mobile devices and laptops can be used to read and send messages via the Sprint PCS wireless network, as well as access personal information like calendar and address books right from the desktop. Get patient lab results from your PDA. Access the patient record database and prescribe medications via your handheld device. Without tracking down a connected computer, record recommendations and issue prescriptions directly into the patient file.
• Mobile messaging services—Two-way short messaging can assist staff, physicians, and suppliers with near real-time communication of text messages and data applications. Text message colleagues with questions or comments about patients or scheduling.
• Sprint PCS wireless voice—Only Sprint offers the most complete, all-digital, wireless network in the nation reaching 100 of the top cities in 49 states for clarity you can see and hear.
• Sprint PCS Ready Link(SM)—Based on two-way, "walkie-talkie-style" technology, it's a cost-effective way to quickly communicate with anyone within reach of the Sprint Nationwide PCS Network—whether in your facility or nationwide.

You want your caregivers to be as productive as possible, regardless of where they are. Utilizing Sprint PCS Connection Cards™, Sprint can help you extend access to corporate applications and databases to the laptop and other data-enabled mobile devices through:

• Sprint PCS Data Link(SM)— Bring your entire network on the road with secure wireless access via IP VPN or frame relay transport to the corporate intranet, the Internet, databases, email, and shared files, as well as to corporate applications via a Sprint PCS Connection Card. Send follow-up emails to colleagues and insurance companies from the road or at home—anytime.
• Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES™—Airports, convention centers, and hotels are just some of the places where your mobile staff can get online and connect to their home facility. Connect to Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES or wherever else Wi-Fi access is available.
• Sprint wireless local area networks (WLANs)—The same 802.11 technology used in Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES can be used to turn your healthcare facility into a private hot spot. Sprint can package a total WLAN solution for your healthcare organization, including design, equipment, installation, and ongoing technical support and maintenance.
• Optigo Enterprise Optimizer—A VPN-friendly compression/optimization solution to give your mobile caregivers LAN-like connectivity.

Teleworkers

Sprint knows a caregiver's demanding profession requires a secure and available connection when they're away from the office and hospital. And for that reason, for each type of teleworker, we've developed a package to fulfill their distinctive needs:

• Extended-hour staff—Take work home after hours or travel to other facilities. Would best benefit from a dial-up or broadband connection along with a laptop outfitted with a Sprint PCS Connection Card.
• Road warriors—Move a lot from clinic to hospital. Prefer to do patient review from their home office or other location. Would best benefit with access to Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES, a dial-up or broadband connection, a laptop outfitted with a Sprint PCS Connection Card, and a PDA phone with wireless email capabilities.
• Field clinician/Facilities personnel—Similar to a road warrior but require more rugged devices. Would best benefit from access to Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES and dial-up, a rugged laptop with a Sprint PCS Connection Card, and a Sprint PCS Ready Link "walkie-talkie-style" phone.
• Physicians—Take work home after hours and require extensive need for mobility at home and on the road. Would best benefit from Sprint Wi-Fi ZONES access and a dial-up or broadband connection, along with a laptop outfitted with a Sprint PCS Connection Card and wireless email via a PDA phone.

Connecting branch locations

Look to Sprint for cost-effective ways to provide the any-to-any connectivity that can enable your mobile healthcare staff with more effective tools for patient care. Remote Access Solutions for Healthcare connects large hospitals with small clinics, labs, and satellite records facilities. Check lab results without waiting for delivery. Get hospital connectivity to home healthcare workers so they consult with patient data and other physicians.

Sprint gives you choices such as:

• VPN type—Hardware and network based
• Wireless and Wireline VPN connection—Wireline: high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL), IP Dial; Wireless: PCS Data Link
• VPN Protocol: Internet protocol security (IP Sec), secure sockets layer (SSL), multi-protocol label switching (MPLS)
• Hybrid Networking
• Network Management

Sprint offers seamless connectivity between different technology platforms—IP, frame relay, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and private lines. That means you can implement a VPN solution at locations where it makes economic sense to do so and integrate those locations with other existing Sprint data network services. With a hybrid approach, you can continue to use existing frame relay and ATM networking equipment, minimize reconfigurations, and reduce access and administration costs.

Sprint solutions have the scope and flexibility to address your requirements. When your resources are stretched thin, let Sprint professional services help you design, develop, deploy, and support your comprehensive remote access strategy. Free your IT staff from the burden of managing disparate networks and multiple service providers.

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