{"id":4587,"date":"2020-01-10T09:44:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T09:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2020-01-10T09:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T09:44:12","slug":"bluetooth-in-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-in-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth in Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Bluetooth blog has a recent post on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"4 Reasons to Use Bluetooth in Your Healthcare Facility (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bluetooth.com\/blog\/4-reasons-to-use-bluetooth-in-your-healthcare-facility\/\" target=\"_blank\">4 Reasons to Use Bluetooth in Your Healthcare Facility<\/a>. It explains some advantages of Bluetooth and mentions some uses within healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bluetooth can be used as a way of connecting wearables and equipment to other devices. When equipment and people are Bluetooth-enabled, asset tracking and wayfinding become possible. Staff can quickly locate valuable hospital assets and patients in need for urgent care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another reason for using Bluetooth is reliability. The article mentions Bluetooth&#8217;s adaptive frequency hopping (AFH) that makes communication more reliable in noisy wireless environments. You can read more about the technical aspects in our post on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Bluetooth LE on the Factory Floor (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-le-on-the-factory-floor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bluetooth LE on the Factory Floor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A further reason for using Bluetooth, particularly Bluetooth LE, is low power. Stand-alone devices can work on coin-cell batteries for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final reason given for using Bluetooth is the ability to create larger site-wide networks using Bluetooth mesh. Mesh can be used for control, monitoring and automation systems without the need for WiFi that can be unreliable and congested in hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a further look at usecases, see the post on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"RTLS in Healthcare (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/rtls-in-healthcare\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTLS in Healthcare<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bluetooth blog has a recent post on 4 Reasons to Use Bluetooth in Your Healthcare Facility. It explains some advantages of Bluetooth and mentions some uses within healthcare. Bluetooth can be used as a way of connecting wearables and equipment to other devices. When equipment and people are Bluetooth-enabled, asset tracking and wayfinding become &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-in-healthcare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluetooth in Healthcare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4588,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}