Making IT work in a business that works fast
Sound familiar?
Patient care moves quickly. Often unpredictable and usually time-sensitive, the business of human health demands IT solutions that are fast, efficient, and effective.
In our increasingly software-centric world, the applications running on your infrastructure are the stars of your healthcare organization. They help you collect and transfer health data, manage schedules, communicate with patients and colleagues, and so much more. And while digital solutions have brought a world of benefits, they also put significant pressure on IT teams to develop, support, and secure them. Adding even more complexity, applications are constantly evolving due to usage and traffic fluctuations, creating scalability needs.
All of this is happening against the backdrop of a shifting society. The digital revolution and social sharing have created “super consumers” (in this case, patients) who expect transparent interactions customized to their interests and designed to fit into their increasingly online lives. You can see these changes happening in retail, financial services, entertainment, transportation, and other industries—and now, healthcare is catching up. As competition among healthcare systems for patient loyalty intensifies, mobile experiences can be a differentiator.
Would pick a primary care doctor who offers a patient mobile app for routine healthcare transactions over one that does not.3
At the heart of this enterprise lies the data center. Traditionally a basement-dwelling behemoth, today’s healthcare data centers are evolving to a smaller footprint—and many are making at least a partial move to the cloud.
Managing data and applications in these diverse environments can be challenging. You need to ensure application performance across any device at all locations, especially as healthcare delivery moves beyond hospital walls. You need automation built in, to account for dwindling resources and eliminate downtime caused by human error. You need security to protect against the ever-rising threats to healthcare. And you need it all to work together, simply.