Reduce Costs

Large hospitals and medical organizations are under great pressure to contain, if not lower, their costs to make healthcare services more affordable and to sustain profitability. To do so, they must enhance communications, streamline operations, improve efficiencies, and reduce operating expenses.

Data
To boost productivity and reduce costs, healthcare organizations must deliver reliable, high-speed networking throughout the enterprise, including distributed sites. Caregivers need to quickly capture and share data, exchange large files, and use timesaving technologies. Providers must deploy telemedicine to leverage the skills of key medical staff and extend the availability of services. To lower administrative expenses, they must expedite back-office processing and speed transactions with insurers, vendors, and patients. Costly errors can be reduced and patient care improved by decreasing paperwork and multiple data entries. Moreover, healthcare organization require connectivity solutions that are easy to use, relieve pressure on IT budgets and reduce the time needed for staff training.

Voice
Telephony is critical to delivering effective healthcare, but conventional voice solutions are very costly, undermining efforts by providers to trim expenses. Traditional PBX systems are notoriously difficult to manage. Even simple tasks like adding, moving, or changing phones require high-priced service technicians. These systems lack the flexibility to adapt to the evolving healthcare workplace and are expensive to expand. Toll charges between distributed sites quickly add up, and features that enhance patient services, like call centers and unified communications, are costly, if available at all. Healthcare organizations today need more affordable and efficient voice solutions.

Wireless
To meet growing healthcare needs, hospitals and medical organizations must be able to expand existing networks or provision new sites with connectivity without draining budgets. Installing network cabling can be expensive and often impractical. Moreover, as medical personnel increasingly rely on laptop computers, PDAs, and other handheld technologies to improve productivity and reduce paperwork, they require untethered connectivity anywhere within a facility, from bedsides and clinics to offices and laboratories.