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Communications system using a hospital telephony infrastructure to allow establishment of healthcare information sessions at hospital-wide points of care

  • US 20090213847A1
  • Filed: 03/16/2009
  • Published: 08/27/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of installing a communications system in a hospital, the hospital comprising a pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure having a plurality of telephone jacks, said method comprising:

  • connecting a plurality of remote modems between respective ones of the telephone jacks of the pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure and a plurality of user devices in the hospital;

    providing a healthcare information system (HIS) server for supporting healthcare information sessions established with individual ones of the user devices; and

    connecting a head-end unit between the HIS server and the pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure, the head-end unit comprising a plurality of centralized modems for exchanging out-of-telephony-band signals with respective ones of the remote modems over the pre-existing twisted-pair telephony infrastructure to establish the healthcare information sessions between the HIS server and the individual ones of the user devices.

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