Posts Tagged ‘health’

State of Tennessee: State Health Leaders

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Tennessee, a leader in advancing healthcare IT, is moving toward an interoperable digital health environment across the state. Intel® Xeon® processor and Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology – plus Intel expertise – are helping Tennessee build eHealth success. Read State Health Leaders (519KB, PDF).

Correctional Health Services Corporation: Technology Investments Drive Transformation of Puerto Rico’s Prison Health System

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Correctional Health Services Corporation (CHSC) invested in Intel end-to-end technologies to deliver the performance and reliability its mission-critical applications demand. The combination of software, MCAs, and Dell PowerEdge* servers with Intel Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series and 5400 series provides nurses with real-time access to patient data at the point of care and helps CHSC deliver great care while increasing productivity. Nurses spend 27 percent less time on medication administration and IT has cut the number of servers by 50 percent. Get the details in Technology Investments Drive Transformation of Puerto Rico’s Prison Health System (181KB, PDF).

Ohio Health: Digital Health in the Heartland

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers have helped Ohio Health scale its infrastructure capacity 150 percent over two years, and reduce heating and cooling costs $22,000 the first year. Physicians and nurses use Lenovo tablet and laptop computers based on Intel® Centrino®2 and Intel® Core™ 2 processors with vPro™ technology for free-form patient charting. Get all the details in Digital Health in the Heartland (496KB, PDF).

Intel Amps Up Healthcare Efforts with $250 Million Alliance with GE

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

This video from Alex Wolfe of Information Week features Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini and GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announcing a $250 million healthcare alliance and also features short demonstrations of the new Intel® Health Guide device from both the patient’s and caretaker’s point of view. (more…)

Intel Security Use Cases

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Intel IT security specialists discuss new enterprise security use cases that we can implement using Intel® vPro™ technology. We focused on three high-priority, high-value categories — e-Discovery and investigations, data protection and loss prevention, and system health and updates — and successfully performed lab tests to validate each use case. (more…)

Calgary Health Region: Transforming IT Support with Intel® vPro™ Technology

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Calgary Health Region, with over 29,000 employees and 2,300 physicians in over 100 locations, manages a diverse PC fleet of approximately 13,000 desktops and 3,000 laptops, refreshed at a rate of 25% per year. By taking advantage of Intel® vPro™ technology, they are reducing security exposure from days to hours, improving patch management, simplifying OS provisioning and improving end user and IT support productivity while significantly reducing energy costs. (more…)

Case Studies Detail Improved Client Patch Success Rate

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Recent case studies show how Intel® vPro™ Technology improves client security and more.

Probe New Client Security Use Cases

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

The Intel IT white paper, New Security Solutions Using Intel® vPro™ Technology, provides client security insights, examining 10 security use cases in high-value categories — data protection and loss prevention, system health and updates, and e-discovery and investigations. (more…)

Proactive PC Support Improves Service and Lowers TCO

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Like all lT organizations, Intel IT constantly strives to deliver better support and reduce the cost of online service calls. As part of our online support strategy, Intel IT developed a self-service PC Health Check utility to deliver better customer support, improve response time, and increase employee satisfaction — while reducing operating costs. (more…)

Intel IT 2008 Performance Report

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Each year, the annual performance report from Intel IT has provided Intel Premier IT Professionals with valuable benchmark data and insights into how Intel is doing in it’s corporate IT mission. One important focus we report on is how Intel IT is adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services.

The progress toward 2008’s mission, Deliver competitive I + T, is also thoroughly documented with examples and data in this Information Technology 2008 Performance Report. Download your copy of this year’s comprehensive report to get insights on Intel IT’s progress in:
Intel Annual Performance Report - Intel APR

  • Improving organizational health
  • Reducing the cost of our overall operations, including carrying out our data center consolidation strategy, optimizing the WAN, accelerating server refresh cycles to optimize total cost of ownership, and saving us $95 million to date
  • Adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services (see page 18)
  • Delivering IT Solutions that drive business growth, such as our supply chain management solutions enabling Intel to be more responsive to our customers, better manage our inventory and enjoy cost savings
  • Improving the on-line experience of our customers through the design, delivery and management of new infrastructure required for web 2.0
  • Passing the halfway point on the complete upgrade of our enterprise resource planning system
  • Partnering with Intel business groups to define, develop and enable technology and products that address the needs of enterprise IT organizations

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