Solutions for Healthcare
Solutions - Healthcare
Why Virtual Instruments in Healthcare?
Healthcare organizations depend on real-time data access to make life-saving decisions. Availability of patient records at all times is not just a regulatory requirement - it is essential to the level of service that an organization can provide. Healthcare IT managers must ensure the performance and availability of the applications that support critical patient services.
Data-intensive electronic medical records (EMR) and healthcare information management systems are exponentially increasing data storage requirements for healthcare organizations. And with limited visibility into SAN I/O performance, healthcare IT managers face a significant challenge maintaining the performance and availability of healthcare applications such as those from Epic, Cerner, Siemens, GE and McKesson.
Virtual Instruments is helping understaffed hospitals and clinics address these issues with the VirtualWisdom® infrastructure optimization platform that monitors, measures and analyzes physical and virtual environments (servers, SANs and storage). The VirtualWisdom solution improves performance, availability and utilization of the IT infrastructure and addresses regulatory compliance by ensuring that healthcare organizations have instant and uninterrupted access to the data they need to provide quality patient care.
Why Healthcare Organizations Use VirtualWisdom®
- Proactively identify and address infrastructure problems before they impact clinical workflow
- Eliminate the risk of unplanned outages and performance slow-downs when virtualizing healthcare systems
- Improve healthcare application performance to ensure fast reliable access to medical records
- Maintain and prove SLA/Compliance for Joint Commission audits and HIPPA regulations
- Optimize SAN, server and storage port utilization to avoid unnecessary purchases; divert 50% cost savings to fund strategic healthcare initiatives
- Reduce trouble tickets by up to 80%; direct cost savings to patient care initiatives
Case Study
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Large U.S. Hospital Chain | In one of the leading pediatric hospitals and research facilities in the world, VirtualWisdom® software, hardware, and services enable the IT department to increase productivity, reduce capital expenditures, improve provisioning, and discover SAN related problems before they cause outages.
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JPS Health Network | This healthcare provider uses VMware server virtualization and storage virtualization with an HDS USP-V storage system. One of their challenges is to maintain high SLAs in the face of 40% yearly data growth.
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Healthcare Services Provider | This large Healthcare Services provider uses VirtualWisdom SAN Availability Probe to help manage its expanding Storage Area Network (SAN). With thousands of partners and customers, the IT team is measured by SLAs. Many applications are customer facing, so fast problem resolution is key.
Analyst Reports
- Building the Data Center for Infrastructure Visibility | Taneja Group White Paper | April 2010 | This white paper from leading analyst firm Taneja Group discusses best practices for ensuring your data center can be dynamically optimized for maximum performance, availability and utilization. They key is having real-time visibility into the traffic flows.
Whitepapers
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Twelve Ways that Virtual Instruments Enhances your Existing Virtual Infrastructure and SAN Management Tools | January 2010 | The only hope of solving today's virtualized data center challenges is with better management tools. Today's most common solutions such as Enterprise Management Frameworks, Storage Resource Management, and specialized element managers all lack physical, real-time monitoring of the I/O path. VirtualWisdom is the only solution that can non-intrusively optimize the performance of applications - including virtualized applications - in continuous real-time by measuring actual SAN I/O traffic data.
Product Datasheets
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VirtualWisdom Overview | VirtualWisdom provides comprehensive instrumentation and I/O measurement capabilities that reduce application response time, increase availability, and improve resource utilization. VirtualWisdom is the only product that can non-intrusively improve the performance of applications and increase the benefits of cloud-driven virtualization in real time by analyzing actual I/O traffic data.
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Healthcare Solution Brief | Many healthcare organizations are struggling to implement innovative technologies like electronic medical records (EMR) that directly impact the quality of patient care due to costly, complex virtualized infrastructures that require significant resources to maintain. VirtualWisdom’s ability to monitor, report, trend and diagnose performance and availability issues from the application level to the SAN is essential for IT managers responsible for the healthcare infrastructure that maintains clinical workflow, access to patient data and the overall delivery of quality care.
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