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Healthcare Network Solutions

When the mission holds lives in the balance, the network is Brocade.

Brocade networks enable healthcare organizations to deliver safe, accessible care to their patients while increasing operating efficiency and reducing costs.

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Key IT initiatives will make each healthcare facility more dependent on their network infrastructure than ever before. They require greater flexibility to support a wide range of medical devices and applications that often extend outside the facility. While this is a challenge in any environment, the need to lay the network foundation for these new services with very tight budgets and regulatory concerns can be daunting.

Brocade network solutions enable healthcare providers to meet both the future and current network demands by facilitating innovative healthcare applications, increased efficiency, and better patient care.

Many healthcare applications require a high-performance and flexible networking infrastructure, including:

  • Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
    As more and more critical patient information migrates away from paper-based systems to EMRs, the network must be able to provide adequate bandwidth, security, and data availability to ensure the timely delivery of patient information to hospital staff and care providers.
  • Patient Portals
    Many healthcare providers have recognized the power of the web as a competitive differentiator when servicing customers to capture and disseminate information for scheduling, billing, and record keeping. Patient web portals impact how information is collected and accessed, trust and confidentiality of patient data being a high priority. This impacts a wide range of network services that must be tailored to provide the secure transport (SSL acceleration) and storage of information (encryption) collected through the Web.
  • Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS)
    With the ability to digitize medical and diagnostic information, PACS relies on the network for the secure transmission of imaging results, storage, retrieval, and support for workstations running special software for image interpretation and diagnosis. A high-performance, highly-reliable campus network must be able to scale as images are more broadly distributed around the hospital or embedded within the EMR system.

Healthcare organizations face the following challenges:

  • Supporting increased network load driven from applications
  • Deploying scalable, reliable networks to support wired/wireless access
  • Implementing higher levels of security to prevent unauthorized access to patient data
  • Managing, storing, and accessing increasing amounts of data

The solutions to address these challenges require:

  • The highest density network core
  • High-availability network infrastructure
  • Wire-speed, reliable, and secure network infrastructure
  • Proactive, integrated network monitoring

This will lead to the following benefits:

  • Non-stop critical patient services
  • Improved Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for higher quality care
  • Lower overall costs
  • Compliant, secure network infrastructure with investment protection for future growth

Brocade networks have proven the capability to fulfill the technical requirements of healthcare organizations while reducing costs. Brocade products and professional services can help organizations meet the ever-changing requirements for new healthcare applications.

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