Fri Jul 31 2009

Sending echo studies with wireless

Is anyone sending Echo studies to your Cardiology PACS with wireless instead of the wired network? We are currently using wireless to send from and AMX4 to imaging PACS which works well but I wasn't sure about the bandwidth with Echo. Thanks, Jim Elhard Atrium Medical Center 513-705-4045

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Tue May 10 2011Reply from rsiefers
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yes we are sending studies wirelessly to Excellera, and have been for over 1 year. My IT department found a wireless bridge that worked very well. We have only ever had 1 problem and it was with the wireless network,server needed to be reset after a software (virus protect) update which caused a shutdown of server. If you wish additional information please don't hesitate to let me know thru this posting

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Fri May 20 2011Reply from uky3
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Hi, This is Dan Neill, Cardiology IT Admin for the Univ. of KY Hospital. We have a few types of echo machines: IE-33, Acuson S2000, IU-22 and I have been trying to transmit wirelessly using a Cisco/Linksys WRT54GL. It works ok but it can have problems. I guess it could be the nature of the beast, but I was wondering if you happened to have any suggestions for models of routers or bridges that can be attached to echo machines that have worked well for you. For any info I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Dan Neill djneil01@email.uky.edu 859-218-2427

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Fri May 20 2011Reply from GaryBiomed
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You can try upgrading to a newer wireless N router. All of our imaging devices are hardwired, but our wireless network uses cisco switches and access points, with a VPN set up for PACS. [url=http://www.linksysbycisco.com/APAC/en/products/Routers]Link to some new linksys wireless n routers[/url] [url=http://www.linksysbycisco.com/APAC/en/products/Adapters]Link to wireless n adapters[/url] [url=http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/wireless80211/a/aa80211standard.htm]Link to The 802.11 family explained[/url]

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Mon May 23 2011Reply from rsiefers
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Hi; I'm the biomed engineer from Flower Hospital in N.W. Ohio, incharge of the Cardiology repairs, etc... I wourked extensively with the IT department and we found the best bridge to use for the wireless transmission of the Echo studies was as follows: HP ProCurve M111 client bridge We have never had any problems from day 1 and it transmits seamlessly at the completion of the study to the XCELLERA server. From there its sent via VPN into the CDR system. If you wish to speak with someone here in the IT department let me know and I will pass along a name and email so you can ask more indepth questions. Hope that helps!

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Fri Jul 29 2011Reply from Bob Euton
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Hey, I would love to talk to you about how to make IE33's wireless, what hardware you used and how you set it up. Please call me at 404-502-0000....yes, that's really my number. this would be a huge help to me, -Bob Euton

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Fri Jul 29 2011Reply from Bob Euton
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Yes, please send me the information so that I can contact them. robert.euton@choa.org thank you very much, -Bob

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Fri Jul 29 2011Reply from rsiefers
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I'll pass along the request to my IT personel and ask if they mind if you get in touch with them. It will probably be next week. Just know that we transmit using the HP procurve wirelessly to the HP-Excellera program which the physicians read from make their dictations to and then send it to the EMR system.

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Tue Aug 02 2011Reply from phillipwd@comcast.net
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Should not be a problem as long as you are careful to observe HIPPA precautions with VPN etc. I have had issues with customers trying to link wireless ECG from treadmill to IE33 instead of hardwire. The R wave, which is what every echo study syncs off of was five times the normal width and the IE33 had problems syncing with that big of an R wave therefore corrupting the image data the Dr. was trying to see. However, once the data has been acquired and saved on the hard drive transmission of the study should be no problem. Once again just make sure Hospital IT is involved so no HIPPA violations occur that could open you to legal issues in the future as you are transmitting patient studies with all the patient data in the background as well.

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Tue Aug 02 2011Reply from Bob Euton
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Yeah, we have over 500 COW's (Cart on wheels) connected to our secured wireless network. So we've dealt with them for a long time now but thanks for looking out for me.

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