Smart IoT Solution for Healthcare

I. Background

At present, the digital and networking information economy is evolving into an intelligence-driven information economy. The future will be an era of the Internet of Things (IoT) where everything is interconnected. China attaches great importance to the development of the healthcare industry, and has successively launched a series of policies to promote the digital and intelligent construction of the industry. The Outline of the National Healthcare Service System (2015-2020) clearly statedthat new technologies such as mobile Internet, IoT, cloud computing, and wearable devices should be actively adopted to promote the development of health information and smart medical services that benefit the public. Efforts must be made to promote the application of big data in healthcare and to gradually change the service patterns for improved service capabilities and management quality.

To accelerate the transformation from informatization to intelligence, it is a rigid requirement for the construction of smart hospitals to accomplish perceptual data interconnection, data sharing and exchange, and solve the problem of data silos through an IoT-enabled open platform with new technologies such as IoT and cloud computing.

II. User needs

Policy requirements: The National Criteria and Standards of Hospital Informatization Construction (Trial) clearly illustrates and specifies the information system construction of secondary and above hospitals, covering patient positioning, patient safety, data collection, asset positioning, and many other aspects depending on the level of hospitals.

Security requirements: Large and medium-sized hospitals are usually unable to monitor the conditions of each area in real time due to a large flow of people. Therefore, it is necessary for the hospital to find a way to ensure maternal and infant security, monitor and assist in real time critically ill patients, monitor the processes in the disinfection room, and ensure the personal safety of doctors and patients.

Refined management: Hospitals are increasingly demanding refined management such as real-time waste tracking, in-hospital asset sorting, and intelligent management of power systems due to their special attributes.

Service requirements: Smart services such as intelligent infusion, mobile ward rounds, and medical guidance can not only bring a better experience to patients, but also reduce the workload of medical staff and improve the overall operational efficiency of the hospital.

III. Overview of solution

For the H3C smart IoT solution for healthcare, the terminal is connected to a wireless AP with an IoT interface via an IoT module and updates data to the IoT-based Oasis Cloud platform. It enables functions such as positioning and monitoring without creating a new network, helping hospitals implement smart management in scenarios such as maternal and infant security, smart infusion, personnel and asset management, and key patient positioning. This solution helps improve the patient experience and service quality of the hospital.

IV. Highlights of solution

Multi-network integration to reduce cost

The solution enables seamless expansion of WLANs to IoT. With the expansion of a single node without changing the main network, IoT can access WLANs and expand its services, simplifying network deployment and meeting multiple service needs of the hospitals with just one network.

Compatible with multiple IoT protocols

It supports WLAN, BLE, ZigBee, and RFID connections at the same time. Various service application data can be flexibly transmitted through the WLANs to meet various IoT service needs of the hospital.

Seamless roaming at full frequency to ensure service continuity

The uplink network of IoT services uses a dual-band network (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), both of which support seamless roaming of WLAN sub-AP extension IoT service.

Perfect medical IoT ecosystem

H3C has made in-depth cooperation with well-known independent software vendors (ISVs) in the industry, enabling one-stop delivery of infrastructure and upper-layer applications.

V. Excellent cases

Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University

Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University (hereinafter referred to as Beijing Tiantan Hospital) was founded on August 23, 1956. It is a Grade-III Class-A hospital with a neurosurgery unit and a characteristic neuroscience cluster, including medical treatment, teaching, research, and prevention. It is also a clinical, scientific, and teaching base of neurosurgery in Asia.

H3C has designed a terminator IoT solution for Beijing Tiantan Hospital, which took into account multiple requirements in mobile medical scenarios such as signal, roaming, and bandwidth performance. H3C and its ecopartners have built systems on the IoT applications with IoT technologies, which include personnel and asset positioning system, infant protection system, intelligent infusion system, smart bed detection system, cold chain management system, and medical waste management system.

H3C's wireless IoT solution meets customers' requirements on mobile healthcare roaming and performance. The launch of many IoT applications has improved the work efficiency of medical staff and enhanced the intelligence level of medical supervision.