Cox Connects OK Hospitals

Cox Business is providing expanded capacity for real-time information connections between INTEGRIS Health's eight rural hospitals and its two large medical centers in Oklahoma City. The data connections ride over Cox's network infrastructure and are part of the company's data network solution for Oklahoma's largest not-for-profit health organization.

The solution delivers network bandwidth to support telemedicine solutions such as remote video consultations, real-time information exchange, imaging and VoIP applications. The need for pre-term fetal monitoring is one specific application that drove the decision for the enhanced network.

Each INTEGRIS Health facility subscribes to Cox Business data services that allow for high-speed Internet access and secure communication to the medical centers in Oklahoma City. The size of the network connection varies according to the specific needs of each location, with all major facilities equipped with 45 Mbps dedicated connections.