Remote Hosting and IT Infrastructure

Your Healthcare Information System (HCIS) is one of the most critical systems in your hospital and it requires a reliable, secure infrastructure to function properly. You may be housing your technology infrastructure on-site at your facility or you may be taking advantage of remote hosting managed services provided by others. In many instances, hosted solutions provide significant strategic advantages, such as: reducing capital investment, allowing more aggressive platform implementation and software migration schedules, solving common operational challenges, and perhaps even increasing levels of security.

Whether your organization houses and manages your technology infrastructure yourself or you engage others for assistance, the success of your information systems is critical in meeting the demands of today’s quality-of-care initiatives like creating and preserving Electronic Health Records. The infrastructure required to support your Electronic Health Record program is an imperative for your success that must be tailored to fit your organization’s unique demands.  

Hospitals also have an unprecedented need for their IT systems to stay up-and-running. Unplanned downtime can have disastrous financial consequences, and worse yet, can negatively impact the quality delivery of care. The more your clinicians depend on technology, the more important it is to ensure that it remains available and reliable. It is critical to plan ahead-of-time and prevent issues with:

• Fault tolerance programs to identify and eliminate single points of failure
• Data retention and recovery procedures to protect critical records
• Performance methodologies that help eliminate downtime in clinical and business processes

Dell Perot Systems has worked with hundreds of hospital systems and care facilities to improve, manage, and monitor their IT infrastructure systems. Our team would welcome the opportunity to put our experience to work in your facilities as you consider initiatives based on the healthcare stimulus package. To open a discussion, please call us toll-free at: 866.665.1241, or send an e-mail to: healthcare@ps.net