Dell has announced a host of new cloud-based services for the healthcare vertical. While physicians and hospitals increasingly find using cloud-based applications to be indispensable for information sharing and access, security of sensitive patient information has been a concern. Dell aims to simplify secure information access and sharing for physicians and hospitals and improve healthcare efficiency from the point of care to the data center and business office. The service offerings are designed for hospitals and physician practices that want to focus less on managing information and more on using it to improve patient care and to maximize reimbursements.
The key components of Dell's cloud-based approach will focus on archiving-as-a-service using Dell’s Unified Clinical Archiving solution (recently acquired from InSite One) designed to overcome the chief barriers to sharing images such as X-Rays, CT Scans and MRIs: silos created when hospitals and hospital networks use multiple clinical applications and storage facilities.
In addition, to offer healthcare facilities better options for analytics and reporting in the cloud, Dell has collaborated with Microsoft to develop a subscription-based analytics, informatics and business intelligence solution that will provide community hospitals with a consolidated view of patient information, helping further promote compliance with state and federal reporting requirements.
Next, Dell will be offering its cloud-based platform, MSite, to host MEDITECH (a global healthcare software solutions provider) applications in a state-of-the-art private cloud and provide technical and applications support, maintenance and disaster recovery at a predictable monthly cost. To simplify and secure access to clinical information at the point of care, Dell, in collaboration with MEDITECH, has developed a virtual-desktop solution for MEDITECH hospitals known as Mobile Clinical Computing (MCC) for MEDITECH. The virtual desktop reduces PC management costs, provides for full single sign-on and session mobility, and eliminates the need for local storage, thereby reducing the risk of data loss or security breaches.
Finally, Dell will maintain a private cloud to host electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management software for more than 40,000 clinicians as a part of its integrated EMR solution for hospital-affiliated and employed physicians.
Dell’s cloud solutions portfolio was designed to help customers maximize IT investments and efficiently scale their computing infrastructure to meet dynamic business and information demands. Additionally, Dell's recent purchase of SecureWorks, a security-as-a-service provider, has laid the foundation for Dell solutions that incorporate security into all aspects of how customer applications and data are deployed and managed. The Dell cloud solutions portfolio includes cloud consulting services; software-as-a-service; platform-as-a-service; infrastructure-as-a-service and servers and storage optimized for the cloud.
Tracey Schelmetic is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of Tracey's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
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