Keeping both hospital guests and clinicians happy is not easy, especially when it comes to meeting their need for WiFi. And it's not likely to get any easier.
Ali Youssef is senior clinical mobile solutions architect at Detroit, Michigan-based Henry Ford Health System and he says maintaining an adequate wireless network in a hospital setting requires aiming at a constantly moving target.
"You can't predict what’s coming in the future," he said recently. "Mobile is a very disruptive technology. For example, you couldn’t predict the emergence of the iPhone or iPad."
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