Reliable patient WiFi for clinics and the healthcare sector
Patient WiFi in hospitals and clinics: The advantages of a connected healthcare system
In today’s digital era, networking and digitalisation are playing an increasingly important role, including in the field of healthcare. Modern technologies have long since found their way into our healthcare system.
Hospitals and clinics are increasingly recognising the importance of patient WiFi and are offering their patients the opportunity to connect to the internet during their stay in order to improve the quality of their stay. This digital and medical progress brings with it a number of benefits that are important for both patients and medical staff.
WiFi from HOTSPLOTS in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centres and care facilities can guarantee improved access to medical information, among other things.
In addition, thanks to the HOTSPLOTS WiFi, medical staff and carers can quickly access the latest medical information (electronic patient file) and always offer their patients the best and safest treatment.
The ability to socialise with friends and family during their stay in hospital or clinic, or to enjoy our free patient TV and video entertainment service HOTSPLOTS TV to go, can also help to promote recovery. The integration of WiFi in medical facilities therefore represents a significant step towards progressive and patient-centred healthcare.
Flexibility and security with target group-orientated WiFi access
HOTSPLOTS WiFi solutions enable hospitals and medical facilities to provide both their patients and their specialist staff with fast and flexible access to the internet.
We help you set up your patient WiFi. You decide how you want to authorise access:
- Direct login: This free access enables users to use the patient WiFi in the hospital simply by accepting the terms of use. No registration, no hurdles — immediate free internet access for your patients and visitors.er.
- User login: With the user login, you can offer your patients and visitors internet access for a fee. For registered users in the HOTSPLOTS customer area, the tariffs you have defined in advance are available. We take care of access control and billing.
- Ticket-Login: The ticket option is based on vouchers for WiFi access, which you can issue independently. These WiFi tickets can be distributed to patients or visitors, for example, to grant them temporary access to the patient internet. You can decide for yourself whether the tickets are free of charge or subject to a charge.
- In addition, access for individual users can be limited in time or by a maximum data volume if desired. HOTSPLOTS also offers a certified youth protection filter.
Thanks to these flexible and secure hotspot solutions, your patients can make optimum use of the hospital WiFi to relax, while medical staff can communicate and work with each other in an organised and effective manner.
Attractive participation model for healthcare facilities
As the site owner of your patient WiFi, you always have control over the tariff for your hotspot. HOTSPLOTS offers hospitals and clinics an attractive participation model with various tariff options to meet the needs of your organisation. This means that you can offer your patients and guests a combination of paid and free use of the patient WiFi. You receive a fixed share of the revenue generated, which can be used to refinance investments in the development or expansion of the patient WiFi, for example.
HOTSPLOTS — Experienced partner for WiFi solutions for hospitals, clinics and rehabilitation centres
HOTSPLOTS solutions in the medical environment are based on many years of experience in equipping clinics, hospitals and rehabilitation centres. Our WiFi networks are scalable and can be easily adapted to the size and number of hotspot users. Regardless of whether only the waiting area or the cafeteria is to be provided with wireless access or whether the full wireless coverage of an entire clinic complex is desired, HOTSPLOTS is the right partner for easy-to-implement solutions and the legally compliant operation of a public WiFi hotspot in the healthcare sector.
The integration of a legally compliant WiFi solution in hospitals for patients or visitors into an existing network infrastructure is often required and desired. HOTSPLOTS systems are manufacturer-independent and can therefore be easily integrated into existing structures. HOTSPLOTS advises you on the integration of the WiFi solution into your infrastructure and supports your in-house IT department from the planning and conceptualisation to the technical implementation and ongoing operation of the WiFi components and WiFi coverage.
Rely on our expertise and experience to equip your medical environment with a powerful and secure WiFi infrastructure. Contact us today to find out more about our WiFi solutions for the medical environment so that we can work together to equip your medical facility for the digital future.
“An increasing number of patients are requesting mobile web access. After investigating the options for a simple solution with low investment and resource requirements but high levels of reliability and security, we settled on HOTSPLOTS as the perfect choice”
Joachim Gressmann, IT administrator at the Sportklinik Stuttgart
Secure and multifunctional WiFi networks in hospitals and clinics
Multifunctional WiFi networks with different user groups require specific specifications regarding the network infrastructure.
Ensuring the secure separation of the patient WiFi from the WiFi access for medical staff (e.g. for mobile rounds) is always one of the most important requirements. The networks are separated using VLAN and multi-SSID-capable access points, switches and controllers.
If you already have a professional WiFi, all you need is a HOTSPLOTS appliance to route the data traffic of the patient WiFi. This is of course also available as a highly available, redundant cluster solution.
By using a virtual private network (VPN), the data traffic of patients and visitors is not routed directly to the internet, but via HOTSPLOTS VPN routing to an end point in a HOTSPLOTS data centre and from there to the internet. In the event of misuse of the hotspot, HOTSPLOTS is the first point of contact for enquiries from the authorities via VPN routing.
Legal security & data protection
HOTSPLOTS is registered with the Federal Network Agency under registration number 05/423 for the provision of commercial telecommunications services to the public in accordance with Section 6 of the Telecommunications Act (TKG).
We take care of all the necessary adjustments to the legal requirements for operating a public WiFi hotspot, such as data protection (GDPR), TKG, etc.
This ensures that your WiFi hotspot always complies with the latest legal requirements.