A study of secure deployment of wireless technology in the medical fields
Nidal M. Turab, Shadi A Aljawarneh, Shadi Rasheed Masadeh · 2010
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) offer the organizations and users many benefits such as mobility, increased productivity and low cost of installation. This paper presents a proposal of deploying WLAN technology in hospitals. It starts with a brief review of the Health Level 7 (HL7), which is used to transfer medical records and data. In addition, a proposal of hospital network that makes use of a new Wi-Fi protocol, called Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS). The WPS is used to setup WLAN in easy and secure manner that meets the different requirements of hospitals, and the HL7 standard security requirements.