Two years ago, Jan Bates, Director of Infrastructure Services, Medical Center Information Services says she and her colleagues recognized interest in—and a need for—mobility at the point of care at UK HealthCare. That led them on a path to searching for mobile point of care solutions for their organization. lthough it initially took some work to get the clinicians together to establish the proof of concept, it was an important step because the clinicians work together as a team at the bedside. Read the rest of the story on Mobile Point of Care – from Proof of Concept through Implementation (3:51, FLV).
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University of Kentucky Healthcare: Mobile Point of Care – from Proof of Concept through Implementation
Monday, August 31st, 2009State of Tennessee: State Health Leaders
Monday, August 31st, 2009Tennessee, 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).
Texas-Based Healthcare System Administers Patch Management and IT Support Efficiencies with Intel(R) vPro(TM) Technology
Monday, August 31st, 2009As 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).
Calgary Health Region: Transforming IT Support with Intel® vPro™ Technology
Friday, March 13th, 2009Calgary 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…)
NHS Mobile Working with RiO* Electronic Care Records – Trial Findings
Saturday, February 28th, 2009While the deployment of electronic care record systems offers great benefits for patients, clinicians and PCTs, they simultaneously create new challenges, especially for community healthcare. Recent studies conducted by Ignetica Limited and sponsored by Dell and Intel have demonstrated that the introduction of mobile working can play a significant role in addressing these challenges.
NHS Mobile Working with RiO* Electronic Care Records – Trial Findings
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Cleveland 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…)
Thomson Reuters: Powering the Law
Monday, February 16th, 2009Thomson Reuters has been providing research tools and information to legal professionals for over 130 years and their services are used by nearly 95 percent of major U.S. law firms to research legal issues. Other Thomson Reuters databases provide vital information for science, healthcare, business, and other fields. With customer usage of its online research services growing rapidly, Thomson Reuters faced the challenge of expanding its IT infrastructure to support an increased demand while also containing costs to maintain profitability. Read how they expect to achieve a 25:1 server consolidation ratio, reducing power requirements and freeing up space. (more…)
Healthways: Nearing One Billion Claims a Month
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Processing nearly one billion claims a month — about one-third of the nation’s health claims, Healthways needs robust infrastructure to analyze nearly 100 terabytes of data, and keep pace with double-digit corporate growth. Read this case study about how Intel® multi-core technologies help Healthways grow their business without having to keep scaling out physically. (more…)