Solving The Wireless Device Interference Problem

Increased technology use, coupled with the drive to implement Electronic Health Records (EHR), has greatly increased the number of wireless devices in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Bluetooth® wireless technology is an option on various medical and consumer devices, including telephone headsets, printers, tablet computers, hospital diagnostic equipment and handheld bar code scanners. The potential for interference keeps growing as more wireless devices crowd short- range radio frequencies in healthcare facilities. To prevent interference, signal separation is the answer. For handheld bar code scanners used in patient point-of-care, a dedicated wireless radio band that operates outside of the spectrum shared by WiFi and Bluetooth® wireless technology is the safest, most secure and easiest route to uninterrupted transmissions.

Wireless Technology

Wireless technology revolutionized wireless communications by making it possible to connect different devices in close proximity. Bluetooth® wireless technology was developed in the 1990’s to link personal consumer devices such as cell phones and wireless headsets, it has become the short-range communications standard for interconnectivity, linking smartphones to headsets, printers to laptops, garage doors to cars, as well as a fast-expanding universe of wireless medical devices.

Bluetooth® wireless technology is everywhere; it is used by printers, wireless keyboards and mice, headsets, speakers, MP3 players, GPS devices and watches – just about anything that can use a radio transmitter.

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