¶ … Noise Reduction Information technology can be harnessed in a litany of inventive and novel ways so as to reduce the overall noise level in a hospital environment. This report will list a number of real-world and already-used examples that can be used with moderate to little investment on the part of the hospital. Just changing procedures and timings of certain things using IT technology, including hardware and software, is surprisingly easy to do.

Many alert and tracking systems of the past have used noticeable, and sometimes obnoxious, sounds such as tones, alarms and so forth. The article reviewed for this assignment makes note of the use of overhead/ceiling-mounted alerts rather than actual buzzers or tones as well as the use of wireless headsets for both phones and radios so that phones can ring and people can discuss things over...

Phone rings can be piped to headsets and the overhead lights that show alerts all reduce noise.
IT can also be used to manage things such as the timing of when the air conditioners or blower motors in general do or do not come on, cell phone jammers can be used to discourage the use of cell phones where the electronic interference or the sound of talking and phone ringing in general is not permissible or courteous and electronic records and/or quieter laser printers have replaced the noisy inkjet and dot matrix printers of yesteryear. The use of vibrating telephones and alerts on both phones and tablets are starting to take the place of pagers that have been a hallmark of nurses and doctors around the nation for years. In short, a major…