Because of cost restrictions and burdened healthcare systems, daily monitoring of patients with diseases has been nearly impossible. Seeking a solution, UHN and Mount Sinai Hospital conducted a 33-patient trial and found BlackBerry smartphones could increase patient involvement in their healthcare without adding pressure to the healthcare system. 

In this question and answer session, learn how Dr. John D. Halamka. MD, of the Harvard Medical School, depends on a BlackBerry Solution to keep his patient and student records secure. 

This paper is the first in a four-part series that offers an overview of the current healthcare situation and suggests ways in which wireless technology solutions address healthcare challenges. 

To curb server proliferation and rising electrical costs, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center moved its virtualization infrastructure to the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Hyper-V technology, using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to manage its server landscape. 

When outdated equipment and disparate systems were hampering in-house communications, customer service, and workflow, Indiana University Medical Group turned to CDW for a three-part Cisco solution. This case study gives details on the benefits they gained. 

Boston Medical Center details its decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery. Brad Blake, IT Director at Boston Medical Center, presented to an audience at Gartner's Data Center Conference. 

In a typical healthcare organization, hundreds to thousands of medical and support staff need to access patient data to do their job. How do you effectively enforce access controls to hospital information systems without hampering medical care efficiency and effectiveness? Read this paper and learn how. 

FACTS EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is an industry compliant, electronic data interchange system that allows for the high-speed transaction processing of health information between the FACTS Systems and your trading partners. 

Lakeview Medical Center needed to optimize their IT environment to combat data center infrastructure challenges. CDW helped them put VMware to work consolidating their servers and providing a more efficient environment. Read this quick case study to learn how they reduced backup times, improved response times, and reduced cost of ownership. 

This e-book presents healthcare specific networking issues such as the importance of networks within a hospital, wireless networking for life-critical networks, the future of health care networks, and more. 

Quebec organizations, compared to others in Canada, display much higher satisfaction with their IT effectiveness. They continually place a high priority on IT process improvement and the establishment of procedures for management and oversight of IT operations. 

This transcript documents a presentation featuring Brad Blake, Director, IT at Boston Medical Center. Mr. Blake will discuss how he initially started working with Data Domain as part of a VMware project. The meat of his presentation focuses on architecting deduplication and virtualisation for best of breed data protection.