Wilho is a 1.3 million euro entity that is comprised of four projects and funded in part by the FinnWell Technology Program of Tekes (Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation). The background of the project is research and analysis carried out in the Oulu region for several years.
Wilho was created when high-tech companies, researchers and service providers based in Oulu began developing wireless hospital technology and operations models. The objective was to create a plan for a wireless hospital aimed at boosting the care of patients for domestic as well as export markets. Thus was born the Wilho Program, whose key objective is to make the internal processes of a hospital more efficient through wirelessness.
Globally, Finland is a leader in the development of data networks and wireless technology. The strong development of technology in recent years has introduced new opportunities for enhancing hospital processes. Finland's health care system is going through great technological change and there is a search for new solutions for renewing health care processes and to make them more efficient.
Wireless technology provides unique and novel ways to optimize and enhance hospital processes. Wilho aims at both the wireless transmission of diagnostic as well as other clinical data and the wireless positioning of people, equipment and materials.
At the core of the Wilho-concept is the WHAN® − Wireless Hospital Area Network with open interfaces both to/from the HIS − Hospital Information System and to/from the various applications in hospital processes.