11 Cloud OS Modern Datacenter in Health_Customer Brief

8/19/2019 11 Cloud OS Modern Datacenter in Health_Customer Brief

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modern datacenter

An intelligentinfrastructure for health

Like many health organizations, you’re working diligently toward achieving strategic businessobjectives: to improve the patient care e perience and overall health of the populations you serve!inless time and at lower costs" #egulatory mandates that govern security, privacy, and compliance addlayers of comple ity to business re$uirements" Add cumbersome datacenter management tools andcare team re$uests for personal device support!to name a few%and &T team bandwidth $uicklybecomes depleted"

'odern datacenter solutions from 'icrosoft and (&)*+#T A#T)+# )A'+- can help you improveperformance and operational e ciencies of the platforms and technology investments you’ve

already made at a lower overall cost" *wiftly and agilely respond to changes in businessdemand. +nable care teams and administrators to work from virtually any location, on anydevice, anytime with robust security" ., /, 0 And e ectively manage security and regulatoryprivacy and compliance. 1hatever approach you choose%on2premises3 in private, public, andservice provider clouds3 or a combination!your &T team can spend less time managinginfrastructure and more time focusing on the business of health"



reserve e isting investments, manage your futureHistorically, your IT team has managed datacenter complexity andyour volumes of physical servers through server consolidation andvirtuali ation. 4ut the real future of datacenter transformation lies inautomatically managing it as a pooled resource of computer, networking, andstorage capabilities that can power your business services"5ni6ed

management enables your &T team to preserve and leverage your existingIT investments while e7ciently managing the boundless capacity of cloudenvironments, applications, and devices to improve control, enhance security,and contain costs"

• 'any of today’s datacenters are used at a fraction of their capacity"'icrosoft private cloud solutions can help you potentially save onhardware costs, lower energy consumption, and improvedatacenter mobility and e ciency by reducing your number of on2premises servers while optimizing the productivity of the sta8 re$uired tosupport them"

• Through a single management platform, transform datacenterresources into a 9e ible, intelligent private cloud fabric that serves as astrategic business enabler !not another operational cost"

• !nable health worker self"service, automating routine tasks andreducing unnecessary &T workload"

• #educe operational costs through monitoring, management, andautomation, which can enable you to reallocate a greater percentage of &Tbudget to strategic business initiatives

$tate"of"the"art datacenter supports rural health system

igh2$uality patient care, advanced medical education, and research aren’t con6ned tobustling metropolises" #urally based, nationally ranked ;artmouth2 itchcock 'edical<enter =; '<> integrates these services to o8er a full spectrum of healthcare%including )ew ampshire’s only Level . trauma center and air ambulance service!tothe citizens of )ew ampshire and ?ermont"

&ncreased use of technology over time helped ; '< improve and deliver moreaccurate, personalized health services" 4ut with patients’ lives in the balance,technology dependence meant /@ B infrastructure availability" *o, the ; '< &T teambegan to lay the groundwork for a second datacenter%without increasing sta8 tosupport it"

1ith 1indows *erver /C./ #/ operating system and 'icrosoft *ystem <enter /C./ #/as the foundation of its new, modern datacenter, ; '< not only gained a cost2e8ectivesolution that can help reduce downtime and deliver uninterrupted patient care, but alsospeeds and automates routine &T maintenance tasks"

The latest datacenter tools help increase &T sta8 e7ciency and advance skills, so thegrowing ; '< infrastructure can be managed by the e isting team" The state2of2the2artdatacenter helps ; '< attract and retain top &T talent, who can now accomplish theirassignments during standard business hours rather than spilling into evenings andweekends"

#ead the complete story"

DEur managementunderstands that datacentere7ciencies directly a8ect thebusiness by helping usprovide great patient care andbe more competitive"F 'icrosoft software helps us

handle a growingenvironment withoute panding our sta8"G

#obert 'c*hinskySenior Systems Engineer Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

http://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/


http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000003339

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000003339





rotect and serve$trict regulations like HI%&& and Health Information Technology for!conomic and 'linical Health (HIT!'H) mandate that healthcareorgani ations protect the con*dentiality of %HI. &n recent years, & AArules have become more stringent, increasing penalties up to 5*H."I millionper breach and clarifying reporting re$uirements for those breaches" Thisgovernance places serious pressure on your &T department to leveragetechnology to shift from a transaction healthcare model to an accountableoutcome model while keeping information safe and secure"A moderndatacenter can help you protect critical &T assets, infrastructure,communications, and data against vulnerabilities as you e ectivelymanage privacy and regulatory compliance.

• +anage even the most sophisticated security threats before theycompromise your organi ation by moving to a new, more2hardenedE* that features dramatically strengthened, built2in system security andsophisticated data protection technologies"

• Help ensure all contractors and subcontractors, performing serviceson your organization’s behalf, adhere to ealth &nsurance ortability andAccountability Act (HI%&&) security and privacy re uirements through their 4usiness Associate Agreement =4AA> contracts"

• Leverage ;ata Loss revention =;L > and e2discovery capabilities to helpidentify, monitor, and protect sensitive information and to warn

users as soon as they include sensitive patient health information = &> inany message"

• 1ith encryption to help secure and track & AA2governed informatione change, caregivers and patients can e ciently communicatebefore, after, and between o ce visits, review care plans, andprepare for surgery!so everyone can make informed decisions withcon6dence"

• Through automatically provisioned device encryption technology, controlaccess to secured organi ational data, ensuring that only registeredand trusted devices are allowed to access i t"

• Help ensure %HI doesn-t fall into the wrong hands. Jour &T team canissue a remote command that can wipe data provisioned to devices=whether managed or unmanaged>" This capability even works on emailattachments that have been saved out of email to the 6le system"

• 'ustomi e and integrate new medical applications, using security

assurance policies that can help ensure customized code is secured andprovide a framework to evaluate application security features prior todeployment"

+nable safe, e7cient communication andcollaboration

The growing demands of mobile health workers and patients re uirethat information be accessible from virtually any location and on anydevice they choose. ., 0 1hether data is at rest or in2transit between devicesand private, public, or service provider cloud environments, the e pectation isthat it will remain con6dential" Kor all data managed on2premises or in thecloud, & privacy must be managed according to local regulations whileenabling designated care teams to access it%when appropriate%from thedevices that enable those workers to be the most productive")ow, your &Tteam can e ectively manage devices and provide anytime"anywhereaccess ., /, 0 to apps and data, empowering everyone in your healthorganization to improve productivity and responsiveness and helpenable better health outcomes.

• eploy proven, familiar applications and deliver them on thedevices health teams use every day. 4y e8ectively managingapplication and hardware lifecycles, you can help sustain operationalcontinuity, increase e7ciency, and improve productivity" ., /

• %rovide healthcare workers with a rich experience and access tothe data, applications, and information they need in2transit



between hospital and o7ce, or whileworking from home, on the devicesthey choose!without increasingsupport costs and while reducingdowntime" ., /, 0 ;o it all by simplifyingmanagement as your &T teammaintains security, control, andcompliance"

• Improve IT e ciency by relying on asingle, security2enhanced uni6ed

management infrastructure for allyour clinicians’ devices!including

desktop <s, 1indows #T tablets, 1indows hone, Android smartphones,i ads, and i hones"

• 4y supporting a security"based /ring 0our 1wn evice strategy,you can help your team maintain constant communication andsustain productivity through <s, smartphones, or tablets, wherevertheir travels take them" ., /, 0 A single, centralized admin console can helpyour &T specialists secure and manage apps, devices, and data to increasee7ciency, maintain compliance, and mitigate risk"

• 1ith an automatic prompt to sign in with a single2click, connect mobiledevices to security2enhanced health networks, online apps, and backend

systems, so care teams can *nd, share, and update time"sensitiveinformation from virtually any location, anytime. ., /

et the resources you need, e actly when youneed them

Today-s datacenters impede your IT team-s ability to respond swiftlyto business needs. 'ultiple tools, platforms, diverse applications, andmanual tasks all increase comple ity, bog down &T specialists, and addoperational cost to sustaining your current model"The ability to deploycompute, network, and storage on2premises, in a public cloud, or with aservice provider can give your health &T team the agility and productivity

re$uired to deliver on your business re$uests faster" 1ith a resilient, elastic,intelligent infrastructure fabric, you can o8er health workers andadministrators on"demand access to organi ational and sensitiveinformation, patients, and each other from virtually any device,anywhere. ., /, 0

• !xercise the 2exibility to adopt cloud technologies on your terms.1ith a hybrid cloud model, choose private, public, and service providerclouds to address comple environments, support a broad spectrum ofsta8 roles, and better meet evolving current and future organizationalre$uirements"

• eliver e cient, scalable, security"enhanced real"time servicesto sta 3within your budget. 1ith the cloud, you can have the9e ibility to pay only for what you use, including low2cost storage"

• 4eep the technology investments you-ve already made, with a

new kind of agility that enables your &T team to automate processesand con6guration across platforms and environments%putting yourhealth organization’s business needs ahead of any particular technologyor vendor"

• ecrease the management burden of anticipating and building oute cess capacity &T infrastructure" #esources can $uickly and automaticallye pand or contract, so operations can be scaled up or down almostinstantly as your needs and volume demand"

. An appropriate device, &nternet connection, and supported browser andMor carrier network connectivity are re$uired" ;ata charges may apply"/ E7ce currently supports <s running 1indows B or later3 'acs running 'ac E* N version .C"O or later =re$uired for E7ce 0OI only>3 1indows hone B"I or

later3 i hone @, i hone @*, i hone I, i od touch =Ith generation> running iE* O". or later"0 'icrosoft solutions may not support all devices at the same level of features, functions, capabilities, and security"

Peep your focus on the business of health4y adopting a modern datacenter!on your terms, within your timelines, and within your budget!you can create an intelligentinfrastructure that frees your &T specialists to focus on helping you attain your business goals" 'icrosoft and (&)*+#T A#T)+#

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