This case study highlights how a government agency used ITIL best practices in the face of ever-tightening budgets and staff resources in order to implement a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for greater agility and end-user satisfaction. 

By consolidating multiple staff badges and security applications into a single employee RFID badge, the hospital streamlined security and access management, established SSO to multiple applications, and provided true convergence of the IT and physical access systems. 

By deploying advanced scheduling tools, healthcare institutions can reduce labor costs and improve the productivity of schedulers, staffers, and caregivers. 

Check out this study to learn how ExaGrid solutions enabled several U.S. government agencies to reduce backup windows and improve overall data protection practices. This resource provides an introduction to the specific solutions used as well as their benefits, and explores emerging deduplication and scalability concerns as well. 

At Metro Health, doctors use an electronic medical record (EMR) application to look at a patient’s medical history, enter examination notes and diagnoses, write prescriptions and view test results. Learn how Metro Health improved availability and lowered energy bills with a server approach. 

Scottsdale Medical Imaging has standardized on HP products wherever possible—from business desktop PCs to the servers that support administrative operations and redundant storage arrays that store the vast library of medical images.  Download this case study for additional details on their objective, approach, IT improvements and business benefits. 

Gwinnett Medical Center uses the HP storage area network (SAN) to support almost all of its critical clinical and enterprise management applications. Learn how the SAN supports the hospital system’s full range of McKesson applications, including EHR, pharmacy, physician portal, surgical management, PACS and radiology operations. 

This case study examines how MidMichigan Health reduces costs and makes it fast and easy for clinicians to access medical records and healthcare applications so they can spend more time with patients. 

Health care facilities require flexible, reliable storage for ever increasing patient data. This webcast covers the benefits of a converged medical infrastructure, including cost reductions and improvements in scalability and flexibility. 

As new challenges continue to arise related to mobile devices, legislative pressures, social media, and the continued degradation of core security, learn 5 key predictions for strategies and trends in IT and security operations in 2012. 

Medical practices have been contemplating the prospect of moving from paper-based records to EHR systems for decades. But relatively few have made the transition – until now. This white paper examines the factors that have kept many medical practices from moving forward with EHR over the years and the factors that are prompting action today. 

If the worldwide health system is not in crisis, it is under intense pressure and cost cutting trends in the light of the global downturn are only set to continue. For most hospitals and medical establishments budget allocations for IT were expected to be smaller in 2009 than in 2008. 

Access this case study to learn how the IT team at Ross Medical Center has virtualized 90% of their x86 servers and replaced more than half of their aging desktop PCs with low-cost thin clients, achieving dramatic cost savings while improving the productivity of clinicians and IT administrators alike.