We needed the Bell expertise to make sure we got the coverage correct so the infrastructure would support all the things we wanted to do with it.

We wanted to be able to link in some of the alerts that come off the equipment to the pagers for the nurses and other clinicians on the floor.

And we took that opportunity to build in other things, like wireless telephones.

The mobile wireless network also gives clinicians a number of other tools, for example we have a virtual medical library on-line in partnership with Queen’s University.