As a major medical institution, the majority of this healthcare system’s PCs are used for mission-critical patient care—from maintaining patient records to clinical workstations. With this in mind, the healthcare system looked to Intel® vPro™ technology specifically to take advantage of the following: improved application patch management, simplified OS provisioning, and improved end-user and IT support productivity. Read the ROI analysis in Texas-Based Healthcare System Administers Patch Management and IT Support Efficiencies with Intel® vPro™ Technology (203KB, PDF).
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Texas-Based Healthcare System Administers Patch Management and IT Support Efficiencies with Intel(R) vPro(TM) Technology
Monday, August 31st, 2009Cleveland Clinic: Improving Productivity and Reducing Energy Costs
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Cleveland Clinic, a non-profit, multispecialty academic medical center, recently changed their asset management approach to a lease vs. buy program and are acquiring PCs with Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology over a four year period. This case study examines how they tackled issues such as mitigating missing assets, supporting the Clinic’s Healthy Environment energy policy, and providing better manageability – while increasing productivity of the Clinic’s staff. (more…)
PhysioLab Advances the Quality of Emergency Medical Services
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009PhysioLab specializes in developing mobile and remote medical solutions that are used by field medical organizations who rescue citizens in emergency situations and provide emergency medical care and transportation to hospital emergency rooms. The company set out to investigate alternative technology to replace current devices that were not specifically designed for emergency healthcare work in order to provide stable, faster and more accurate emergency and pre-hospital medical services to patients during transport. To achieve this, PhysioLab conducted a pilot study on a mobile clinical assistant at the Rescue and EMS division of Busan Fire Department. Get the details in this case study. (more…)
Pharmacy Department Accrues Wide Range of Benefits in Mobile Point of Care Pilot
Saturday, February 14th, 2009The Macclesfield District General Hospital, part of the East Cheshire NHS Trust, introduced a Mobile Point of care pilot designed to evaluate the business value of using Mobile Clinical Assistants, based on Intel® mobile clinical assistant reference design, to better manage pharmacy workflows. One result: 27 per cent reduction in the number of missed doses and improving both patient safety and quality of care. Read more about the pilot in this case study. (more…)
In Support of Clinical Excellence: Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Case Study
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare is in the midst of a $61million initiative to deploy electronic health record and other applications as part of its clinical excellence strategy. This case study shows how Intel and HP delivered scalable performance for Oracle and McKesson solutions for the network of 15 hospitals and nearly 3000 physicians.
Bioinformatics for Critical Care
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Using open source software and standards-based Intel® technologies, the UCSF Critical Care Data Warehouse Project provides authorized researchers with a single-source view of information from three independent clinical sources: a Phillips CareVUE* ICU electronic medical record, a mainframe-based lifetime care record that utilizes Siemens Invision*, and real-time information from bedside clinical monitors and equipment (Aristein Bioinformatics). Read Bioinformatics for Critical Care to see how Intel is working to resolve some of the roadbloacks to data integration in healthcare.
Gwinnett Medical Center: Keeping IT Systems Healthy from the Data Center to the Desktop
Monday, March 31st, 2008To help maintain clinical excellence, Gwinnett Medical Center uses Intel® Xeon® processors for increased server performance and Intel® vPro™ technology for remote PC management. Get the details in Keeping IT Systems Healthy from the Data Center to the Desktop (349KB, PDF).
The Benefits of IT-enabled Care Transformation
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Get an in-depth view of Banner Estrella Medical Center’s IT-enabled care transformation process and how they standardized clinical applications, workflows, clinical protocols and culture-change initiatives across all its facilities. Read The Benefits of IT-enabled Care Transformation from Healthcare Financial Management magazine to see how the business value was measured using the Intel® Healthcare IT Value Model.