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Overview Of Communication Capabilities For The Healthcare Industry
In order to assist the Joint Commission in an assessment of the communications capabilities of emergency medical and public health care facilities, USA Mobility is pleased to submit this overview of the capabilities provided to the healthcare industry in the important area of critical and emergency communications.
Healthcare organizations depend on the reliable service of paging due to the critical, life-saving mission they must fulfill each day. There are both architectural and process-oriented reasons for this reliability. Paging technology is substantially different in its architecture than that of the more familiar cellular network. These differences result in important reliability characteristics including superior in-building signal penetration, overlapping coverage on the ground, independence from the public switched telephone network and satellite transmission of paging signals. In addition, USA Mobility maintains a carrier grade network operations center in order to deliver uninterrupted performance to this important user base.
For many of these same reasons, paging technology has also proven to be more survivable and reliable during and after crisis situations. Two examples of this are during 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, when landline and cellular networks became overloaded and unusable, paging networks continued to deliver reliable performance to its large user bases in both the healthcare industry as well as the government and first-responder sectors.
Source: www.fcc.gov
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