Health Care Solutions by GeneralCommuncations Case Study WLAN Health Care, Proxim GeneralCommunications.com Business Partner. We help you to move Point to Point Data or Point to Multipoint Data Contact us Today!   Health box Launches Revolutionary Way for Doctors and Healthcare Providers to Manage their Business The Client: Health box is a full-service communications provider in France. The company markets office hardware and software tools to doctors and provides internet solution packages such as web connectivity and internet access. One of its primary products is the Health box. The Opportunity: The French government has implemented a new program called the “Smart Card” (Sesam Vitale). The Smart Card—which resembles a credit card—contains all of a patient’s administrative records and billing information. In the coming years, all French people will be required to have a Sesam Vitale card, and the new Sesam Vitale Card 2 will contain medical records. Kadlec Medical Center Kadlec Medical Center, a 150-bed facility located in southeastern Washington, was an early healthcare pioneer in the use of wireless technology for patient care, rolling out a Proxim RangeLAN2 network in 1999. The system has proved so popular with nurses, doctors and pharmacists for tracking and recording patient care that its bandwidth topped out by 2002, and Kadlec needed to find a new option. It again turned to Proxim, becoming the first hospital to implement an IEEE 802.11a network for patient care.