Your hospital’s executive team is looking to the IT department to help solve more problems than ever before – and asking for a bigger budget or a larger staff generally isn’t an option.
Your executive team is trying to keep up with healthcare reform, increased demands from clinicians for mobile access and unprecedented market consolidation – not to mention the need to deliver coordinated care while ensuring that patients’ records are secure.
Here’s one of the problems you need to solve today: Chances are, your doctors and nurses practice medicine at one or two hospitals – and they probably have a day or two in remote clinic environments as well. When patient visits are only 15 minutes long, downtime isn’t an option. That means your clinicians require nimble and easy access to patients’ records.
With payment reform, coordinated care among clinicians is a must. Figuring out how to enable secure enterprise access to patients’ records is key to your healthcare organization’s success.
And that means your IT infrastructure must be simple but sophisticated. Your IT team needs to be able to quickly assess utilization patterns – and, in response to proactive alerts, change resource allocations in real time. The ability to deploy and manage virtual machines in just five clicks and update hardware and firmware in just three clicks enables your doctors and nurses to stay focused on serving patients, rather than contacting the support desk because the network is down.
Don’t forget about your billing department. That entire team relies on IT to provide always-up network access so billers can file claims in real time. A delay in getting those claims to insurance companies means a delay in receiving payment for the hard work your doctors and nurses do to keep patients healthy. And that means a hit to your bottom line. All the more reason that your IT infrastructure must be agile and responsive to your business needs.
With a proven architecture for virtualization and the cloud, your IT team can deliver on the promise of simplified upgrades and increased uptime and service levels. We’ll help get you there with an all-in-one virtualization solution that enables you to deploy virtual machines in minutes, while simplifying IT operations and reducing costs.
To learn more, read American Digital’s Indiana Health Information Exchange case study.