Healthcare organizations are highly mobile by nature and hence are constantly challenged with delivering adequate wireless services to access patient records at the bedside and enhance maximum responsiveness. Many hospitals are deploying Wireless LAN (WLAN) networks to support a variety of healthcare applications. These WLANs must perform optimally in a wide variety of physically different building structures. For example, many hospitals have unconventional building shapes, diverse building materials, and connect to other buildings. WLANs also need to perform optimally with a wide variety of client devices, such as handheld devices, laptops, mobile carts, Wi-Fi voice, Wi-Fi location, etc. WLANs in hospitals must also be resilient enough to handle various sources and levels of interference.
