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Computerworld Malaysia - - Hospital goes fully wireless

Spotted this recently but I don't know how old the news is:

Doctors at Selayang Hospital get remote access to test results, x-rays and other patient information.
By Computerworld Malaysia staff

DOCTORS and healthcare experts at Malaysia's Selayang Hospital can now view patients' x-rays and test results as they become available by "logging on" to electronic bedside charts and other media.

This is the result of a new wireless networking project at the hospital, the Total Hospital Information System (THIS). The system will also give doctors access to medical records, financial and administrative information through a variety of tools including electronic charts located at the foot of every patient's bed. This enables care givers to do realtime drug reaction monitoring, access drug references and check clinical histories. X-ray images are also digitised so that they can be transmitted over the system, made possible with networking tools provided by netowrking vendor 3Com.

Selayang Hospital is a 960-bed facility, with experts in 20 clinical disciplines. Said to be the country's most technologically advanced hospital, it is located 15 kms north of Kuala Lumpur. Similar systems to THIS are already in place in hospitals in the US states of Michigan and Illinois.