Article: Pioneer in medical record imaging uses microwave for disaster avoidance. (Saint Vincent Health System, Erie, PA) (Microwave Networks)

When a technically pioneering hospital in Erie, Pa., was faced with the challenge to establish a wideband link between the hospital and a data center four blocks away, it had all the Saint Vincent Health Center wanted to insure the communications link would never be interrupted. It installed a single-hop microwave link.

Saint Vincent Health System was one of the first hospitals in the nation to use imaging technology for medical records in 1988. And because the hospital's data center was at a remote location, it needed to install a medium that could handle the wide bandwidth that imaging requires. Fiber was the medium of choice for several reasons. Leased copper ...

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