the-infoshop.com - The vertical markets research portal
View CartView Cart
Global Information, Inc.
US: +1-860-674-8796
EU: +32-2-535-7543
SG: +65-6223-2436
  Home | Category | Publishers | Custom Research | E-mail Alert | About Us | Contact Us | Site Map |
 

* View All Categories
View Conferences
Japanese Korean Chinese

Market Research Report

WiMAX in Healthcare

Published by Mind Commerce Contact us : +1-860-674-8796
Published 2009/06 Content info 51 pages
Product code MIN90979
Price From  US $ 1995 Order/Price list
US $ 1995 PDF by E-mail (Corporate Use License)
Delivery Time
PDF by E-Mail
Approx. 1-2 business days
Hard Copy/CD-ROM
Approx. 3-4 business days
If you need expedited delivery, please call us.
Description TOC

Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Access
  • Why WiMAX?
  • Objections to WiMAX
  • WiMAX is not Wi-Fi
  • WiMAX Components
  • Relationship of WiMAX Range and Throughput for School Applications
  • Fixed vs. Mobile WiMAX
  • Why backhaul is important
  • Wireless Backhaul Considerations
  • Comparisons with Fiber
  • Spectrum Considerations
  • Access Conclusion
  • Applications: The Doctor is Always In
  • Taiwan: WiMAX and EMRs
  • Sweden: WiMAX-enabled Healthcare on the Islands
  • Relationship of Connectivity and Productivity
  • Applications: Generic
  • T1/DS3 Substitute = converged voice + data
  • Voice (telephony): the "killer app" for WiMAX
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Combating high telecom costs and/or Building Diversity
  • Applications Specific
  • Video conferencing and training
  • Home health care monitoring
  • Mobile or remote health care vans
  • Ambulance services
  • Enabling video compression technologies: the other half of the equation
  • HD at 1 Mbps?: HD recording and streaming live anywhere, any time
  • Standards
  • Cameras
  • Audio Factors
  • Echo Cancellation
  • The Audio Secret Sauce: Compression Algorithms and "wideband"
  • Applications Video and WiMAX
  • Video conferencing
  • Distance learning and training of rural or remote medical professionals
  • Telemedicine or remote check up via high definition video
  • The implications for WiMAX-based HD video services
  • Medical Imaging
  • Affordability
  • WiMAX is inexpensive relative to other technologies
  • Savings on Existing Expenditures
  • Conclusion
  • About the Author

Figures

  • Figure 1. The 3 elements that comprise a telecommunications network: Access, switching and transport (backhaul)
  • Figure 2. Wi-Fi serves a coffee shop or home. WiMAX serves a city
  • Figure 3. WiMAX nomenclature: base station and subscriber station
  • Figure 4. WiMAX base station and antenna combinations
  • Figure 5. WiMAX access or subscriber devices
  • Figure 6. Line of sight offers better range and throughput than non line of sight
  • Figure 7. Link budget illustrated
  • Figure 8. backhaul connects WiMAX base stations to a larger managed IP network
  • Figure 9. This IS the doctor' s office and the doctor is ALWAYS in: EMRs accessible on a WiMAX-enabled smartphone. Why don' t we have this?
  • Figure 10. Networking and the work place: the geographic expansion of enterprise telecommunications services
  • Figure 11. WiMAX services negate the need for legacy telco T1 services
  • Figure 12. WiMAX supports healthcare voice and data
  • Figure 13. WiMAX provides diverse path to enable disaster recovery
  • Figure 14. Destroyed telephone central office, 140 West Street, NYC, across from world Trade Center, September 15, 2001
  • Figure 15. WiMAX can enable shopping for best price on bandwidth, provides competition to other providers
  • Figure 16. Mobile healthcare vans can be networked via WiMAX
  • Figure 17. The networked ambulance can save lives
  • Figure 18. WiMAX can support HD video with a laptop sized encoder and soda can sized camera
  • Figure 19. Advances in compression technology and WiMAX make 1 Mbps HD video possible
Related Report
Back to Top
Please inform me when related publications are released
InfoWatch

US: 1-860-674-8796 EU: 32-2-535-7543 SG: 65-6223-2436
The vertical markets research portal
© 2009, the-infoshop.com by Global Information, Inc. All rights reserved.