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HID Global, trusted identity solutions company, and Mist Systems, a maker of self-learning wireless networks powered by artificial intelligence (AI), recently announced that the two companies are working together to converge Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based location services with Wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure for better deployment, management, and operations of IoT devices.

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HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, and Mist Systems, a pioneer in self-learning wireless networks powered by artificial intelligence (AI), announced that the two companies are working together to converge Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based location services with Wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure for better deployment, management, and operations of IoT devices.

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HID Global and Phunware, Inc., announced their collaboration to improve the experience for hospital patients and visitors to find their way within medical facilities, using wayfinding on their mobile phones.  Wayfinding is indoor navigation to guide a person step-by-step on the way to a desired destination.

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HID Global®, a leading company providing reliable identity solutions, has recently unveiled its new Internet of Things (IoT) based BEEKs™ Duress Badge Beacon that helps hospitals protect nurses, doctors, and other staff from any dangerous or threatening situations that may arise in the hospital premises.

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HID Global, a provider of trusted identity solutions, announces its new BEEKs Duress Badge Beacon that addresses the growing need to protect doctors, nurses and other caregivers from threatening situations that arise in the hospital environment.

SecurityInformed»

HID Global is looking to make an impact with solutions based on its HID Location Services platform at this week’s HIMSS event in Orlando.

From its booth in the Orange County Convention Center, HID Global is showcasing a number of healthcare-focused offerings. The BEEKs Duress Badge, for example, is an alarm button that healthcare professionals can use to alert security to a given location within a hospital. Another solution combines HID Location Services with HID’s BLE module to monitor hand sanitizer dispensers throughout a hospital environment; while a collaboration with Emerson uses HID’s BLE sensors to monitor environmental temperatures in various hospital areas.

Mobile ID World»

AUSTIN, Texas, February 12, 2019 – HID Global®, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, today announced its new BEEKs Duress Badge Beacon that addresses the growing need to protect doctors, nurses and other caregivers from threatening situations that arise in the hospital environment. The Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) duress functionality provides a fast and easy way for hospital personnel to send security staff real-time distress alerts from anywhere in or around the hospital campus if they are in duress and in case of other emergencies.

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AUSTIN, Texas, February 12, 2019 – HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, opens this week’s HIMSS with a powerful line-up of new and recently-announced strategic collaborations and solutions that are fueling the healthcare IoT. Attendees will learn how the HID Location Services IoT platform is improving clinical workflows and operational compliance; providing better collaboration and clinician safety; and delivering enhanced condition monitoring of temperature-sensitive or perishable vaccines and other bio-medical assets.

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HID Global, a provider of trusted-identity solutions, and Phunware, an integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile technologies that provides products, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, have announced a collaboration to improve the experience for hospital patients and visitors, to help them find their way within medical facilities via a wayfinding app on their mobile phones. Wayfinding is indoor navigation to guide a person step-by-step on the way to a desired destination.

RFID Journal»

It can be easy to get lost inside a hospital, but a new partnership between HID Global and Phunware is aimed at making it a bit harder.

The companies are putting their heads together to develop a wayfinding app for mobile devices. The aim is to deliver a user-friendly app that gives smartphone users clear, step-by-step instructions to navigate a given hospital and get to their appointments. It will leverage HID Location Services together with Phunware’s mobile wayfinding technologies to make that happen.

Mobile ID World»

HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, and Phunware, Inc. (NASDAQ: PHUN), a fully integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides products, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, today announced their collaboration to improve the experience for hospital patients and visitors to find their way within medical facilities, using wayfinding on their mobile phones. Wayfinding is indoor navigation to guide a person step-by-step on the way to a desired destination.

Electronic Health Reporter»

HID Global^®, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, and Phunware, Inc. (NASDAQ: PHUN), a fully integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides products, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, today announced their collaboration to improve the experience for hospital patients and visitors to find their way within medical facilities, using wayfinding on their mobile phones. Wayfinding is indoor navigation to guide a person step-by-step on the way to a desired destination.

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A doctor or a nurse can find themselves under duress in an instant. A patient unexpectedly attacks a doctor in a room. A nurse, who is leaving her shift at 3 a.m., is jumped by a masked assailant in the hospital parking lot. A patient’s angry family member confronts a doctor about the care protocol or frustration over a lack of response to the treatment. Each of these examples can create threatening situations that generate concern and could pose a risk to the safety of hospital personnel.

Electronic Health Reporter»

A 21-year-old male patient goes into respiratory and cardiac arrest at a bar. A 32-year-old female who has a history of chronic pain from a motor vehicle accident two years ago, collapses on the street. An 18-year-old female who went to a football game and is found unresponsive and apneic in the bathroom. A 36-year-old male who has chronic back pain from a construction accident three years ago, is found unresponsive by his children in the bedroom.

Health IT Outcomes»

NEW YORK – January 8, 2019 – VirtualHealth, the leading SaaS platform for care management and population health, announced today the appointment of Sue Powers to the position of Chief Growth Officer. Building on nearly two decades of experience as a healthcare executive, Powers will lead the company’s plans for growth and expanded market share following a year of record-breaking customer expansion that culminated in VirtualHealth being ranked 39^th on Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 500™.