Case Study: LSU Health Saves Lives with Peplink!

Mountain View, CA 17th July, 2014 –IMMEDIATE RELEASEBringing Life-Saving Mammograms to Rural LouisianaLSU Health Shreveport operates mobile mammography vehicles as part of their health outreach service. A big difficulty is communicating from these mobile life-savers to the university back at Shreveport, an essential part of the cancer screening process.

The areas served are rural and remote, with poor cellular coverage. Effectively transmitting medical images back to the university is especially challenging in this environment.

When lives depend on timely diagnosis, the connection between the mammography vehicle and the university must be fast and unbreakable. Faced with this challenge, LSU Health called Peplink partner Peter West and asked for a solution.

Meeting the Challenges of Delivering Rural Cancer Screening

Peter designed and implemented a mobile communications system capable of transmitting images and essential data using Peplink and Pepwave devices.

The mammography vehicles are equipped with either a MAX HD4, or two MAX BR1s with a MAX HD2. The vehicles can then form unbreakable VPN connections with the Balance 580 at the university and bond the bandwidths of the 4 cellular connections.With this setup, the vehicles can remotely access vital information, such as patient registration and databases, as well as seamlessly communicate using VoIP.

Most importantly, the vehicles can reliably send X-rays and 600Mb 3D tomographic images back to the university’s Picture Archiving and Communications (PAC) system.

This is possible using Pepwave routers to bond cellular connections from multiple providers, delivering maximum bandwidth and stability in areas where cellular coverage is poor. And when they’re lucky enough to work in areas with Wi-Fi, the MAX’s Wi-Fi as WAN feature provides the vehicles with equally reliable access.

Saving Lives with the Help of Peplink Technology

By enabling mobile mammography teams to reliably communicate with the university, Peplink / Pepwave helps LSU Health save lives throughout North Louisiana. And we are extremely proud of that.LSU Health vehicles can now reach 30 parish communities in rural North Louisiana. Previously underserved, these areas now receive state-of-the-art care.

"(The Staunch team) has gone far beyond expectations to help us plan and implement our systems in a timely manner. He has been instrumental with helping us keep up with advancing technology to get the best communications performance feasible in our difficult rural environments"

-Jerry McLarty, PhD Professor of Medicine. Director of Cancer Prevention and Control at Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, LSU Health Sciences Center

For the full case study, images, deployment scenario, visit http://www.peplink.com/solutions/case-studies/lsu-mobile-mammography/

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Full Case Study: http://www.peplink.com/solutions/case-studies/lsu-mobile-mammography/

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