Healthcare

Tailored connectivity is essential for modern healthcare applications

Doctors and caregivers rely on diverse data and voice services, from real-time access to electronic health records and telemedicine calls to remote monitoring and imaging. Each healthcare application has different requirements for bandwidth, latency, reliability, and privacy—life-critical functions like vitals monitoring demand ultra-reliable, secure connectivity, while administrative tasks are less demanding. Networks must be designed to meet these specific requirements. One size does not fit all.

Learn how advanced connectivity technologies such as 5G will help drive healthcare growth

Healthcare organizations are responding to a period of historic disruption, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, digital innovation, and the emergence of new competitors. They are making strategic connectivity investments for the future which are expected to drive exponential business growth.

Transforming Healthcare Connectivity Nationwide: CTS Experience Across America

  • UCI Medical Center – Orange, CA

  • St. Joseph's Hospital – Orange, CA

  • Henry Ford Hospital – Detroit, MI

  • Cedars Sinai – Los Angeles

  • Kaiser Permanente – Multiple Locations

  • Ohio State Medical Center – Ohio State University

  • Adventists Hospitals – Chicago, Ill

  • University of Colorado Hospital – Denver, Co.

  • Meriter Hospital – Wisconsin

  • Methodist Hospital – Texas

  • Cleveland Clinic – Florida

  • Temecula Valley Hospital – California

CTS solves your most complicated communications challenges

Challenge CTS Solution
Having good cellular coverage to make voice calls

Voice calling is a mission- and sometimes life-critical application for healthcare providers. Consulting and contracting doctors, care givers, patients, and guests need robust indoor and outdoor cellular coverage to make calls as they move in and out of hospitals, using a variety of carriers’ services.

Best-in-class wireless networks

CTS provides your preferred choice of multi-carrier cellular network options using DAS or Neutral Host networks and makes sure everyone can make a phone call from anywhere in and around the campus. We create a custom-designed network to meet your unique requirements. Once the design is complete, CTS builds, runs, and supports wireless networks to ensure high-quality connectivity in every corner of the facility.

Growing traffic from Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and critical applications

The ever-expanding array of data applications such as asset tracking comes with very specific network quality requirements for achieving desired clinical outcomes. Existing Wi-Fi networks lack the guarantee of the consistent connectivity required for reliable healthcare communications.

Consistent performance with private cellular networks

CTS delivers a private cellular network with network slicing, allowing each hospital application—such as medical devices or electronic health record systems—to have its own optimized, secure, and reliable connection. This ensures mission-critical functions get prioritized, interference-free service, while supporting flexible and high-performance hospital operations.

Simplify local area network expansion while managing costs

Many healthcare organizations struggle with traditional networks—they're bulky, power-hungry, and costly to expand. Especially across medical campuses or large hospitals, scaling becomes a serious challenge.

Simplify your network and save with CTS Optical LAN

CTS’s Optical LAN reduces clutter, saves energy, and frees up space. It's designed to scale smoothly—making it ideal for hospital and medical campus environments looking for flexibility without complexity.

Managing and integrating multiple Mobile Network Operators

Managing multiple carriers and integrating different Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in healthcare facilities adds complexity, requiring duplicate infrastructure, increased costs, and constant coordination to maintain seamless, reliable, and secure coverage across hospital campuses—necessitating future-proof strategies to unify multi-carrier services and meet stringent healthcare communication demands.

CTS Forte Managed Service provides headache free connectivity to all MNOs

CTS Forte Neutral Source solution solves the challenge of managing multiple carriers and integrating different Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in healthcare facilities by providing a unified, vendor-agnostic solution. It allows hospitals to use multi-vendor components and networks from different MNOs, enabling them to select the best radio solutions for their specific coverage and performance needs. This approach simplifies operations, reduces the complexity and costs of deploying duplicate infrastructure, and ensures seamless, reliable, and secure wireless connectivity for all mission-critical applications across complex hospital environments.

Managing Wi-Fi networks in a healthcare environment

WiFi in hospitals struggles to provide reliable, secure connectivity due to complex layouts, interference, high device density, and the need for seamless roaming—issues worsened by growing traffic from patient and guest devices, which can consume significant bandwidth and further degrade performance for mission-critical applications.

CTS Wi-Fi for guest traffic and Private Cellular Networks for mission critical applications

CTS addresses hospital WiFi challenges by strengthening WiFi for general use and shifting mission-critical applications—like electronic health records and medical devices—to a secure private cellular network. This offloading reduces congestion, ensures reliable and interference-free connectivity for essential functions, and improves overall network performance throughout the hospital.

Solutions

  • DAS and Small Cell Solutions

    Reliable in-building public cellular coverage

  • Private Cellular Networks

    Delivering mission critical enterprise connectivity

  • Public Safety DAS

    Critical communications for first responders

  • Optical LAN Solutions

    Converged LAN infrastructure

  • Forté Neutral Source

    Carrier guaranteed signal sources to power your DAS

  • Wi-Fi

    Convenient connectivity for data applications

Resources

  • Whitepaper

    Learn how digital transformation in healthcare impacts the choice of communications networks

  • Data Sheet

    Learn how a CTS Private Cellular Network can drive your digital healthcare transformation

  • Data Sheet

    Learn about the benefits of the CTS Neutral Host Network-as-a-Service

  • Brochure

    Learn about the full portfolio of CTS connectivity solutions

CTS is your one source for all fixed and wireless connectivity needs. We design, build, run, and support customized networks with technologies best suited to ensure a consistent experience for clinical care, emergency communications, administrative tasks, and guest Internet access.