Patient Applications

In an emergency, the right information, at the right time, can mean the difference between life and death. For a patient having a heart attack, precious moments are often lost in transit to the hospital. What if an EMT could send vital information about your condition to the emergency room? Imagine a world where the ability to do this extends border-to-border, so that no community—rural or urban—is without coverage. Rhode Island is fast becoming that place.

Wireless Innovation for Every Patient

Through RI-WINs—an effort to make Rhode Island the first state in the country with a border-to-border broadband wireless network—the Business Innovation Factory is pioneering a new model for making connectivity commonplace.

RI-WINs will create unprecedented opportunities for healthcare innovation. From bringing broadband mobility to emergency responders to supporting new advances in healthcare IT, RI-WINs will change healthcare forever.

Even more important than what we can do today is what we can do tomorrow. RI-WINs isn't about building a network. It's about creating a dynamic platform for experimenting with new ways to connect people, information, and technology. Whether exploring new ways to save lives or testing electronic models for improving medical records, we've only just begun to imagine life in a wireless world.