How to Simplify Application Delivery in Hospitals and Reduce Costs

A complimentary Industry Solutions Webinar from HIMSS and Symantec Corporation...

How to Simplify Application Delivery in Hospitals and Reduce Costs

Tuesday, March 17 11:00 am Pacific / 12:00 pm Mountain / 1:00 pm Central / 2:00 pm Eastern

As healthcare organizations automate, they face the challenge of delivering applications to clinicians who move around the hospital and connect from a proliferation of desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. Clinicians need quick and easy access to applications in order to provide quality patient care without interruption. IT staff need a way to deliver and maintain hundreds of applications at reduced cost.

Join this webinar to hear best practices and lessons learned on how Sebastian K. Sullivan, M.B.A., Manager Information Security & Computer Operations, from Southern Illinois Healthcare; and Davis E. Clark, Account Manager, Symantec Corporation, simplified secure delivery of applications with endpoint virtualization.

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Coretek Services to offer executive briefing on “Making IT Painless at the Point of Care”

Coretek Services to offer executive briefing on “Making IT Painless at the Point of Care” - April 28th from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm at the Microsoft Briefing Center in Southfield..... Click here to attend

The need to compete for patient loyalty has never been higher than is it today. That’s why it is critical to take full advantage of technology while continually improving administrative efficiency and the patient experience. EMR systems are effective tools, but they are only part of the solution. In fact, many would agree they are also part of the problem. This briefing will address these challenges by showing you how to:

• Provide fast and secure access to patient information
• Increase productivity
• Streamline team communications

Presenters will be discussing these topics and will be available for sessions to answer questions you might have about how to best leverage technology in an ever fluctuating economy.

Agenda:

Crisis of Patient Care: “Current Financial and IT Challenges for the Life Sciences Industry”
by Microsoft

Next Generation Clinical Workstation: “Healing the Technology Headache” Solution Overview & Demo: the Coretek Virtual Clinical Workstation by Coretek Services

“IT Hurts When I Do This” (Dr. Kenneth Yokasawa)

“Successfully Improving the Clinical Experience” (Ken Septer)

Guess Speakers include:

Ken Septer
Regional Technology Director
Ascension Health Information Services

Dr. Kenneth Yokosawa
Co-Director of Family Medicine Residency Program
Genesys Health System

Chris Gempel
Healthcare Industry Strategist
Microsoft Health & Life Sciences

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Citrix HDX - Optimize the display and performance of graphics

HDX 3D optimizes the performance of everything from graphics-intensive 2D environments to advanced 3D geospatial applications using software and hardware based rendering in the datacenter and on the device. These technologies include:

• Progressive Display - Dramatically improves the performance and usability of graphics-intensive applications. Centrally manage applications such as healthcare PACS (picture archiving and communication systems) and GIS mapping application, while providing speed and anywhere-access for users.


• Image Acceleration - Enables IT to balance the resolution of photographic image files with the amount of bandwidth the files consume as they are delivered from the server to the device.


• Browser Acceleration - Optimizes the responsiveness of graphics-rich HTML pages in published versions of Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Internet Explorer.


• Thinwire - The aspect of the ICA protocol that delivers the visual presentation layer to the user’s device.

Source: Citrix

Coretek Services, Inc.

Coretek Clinical Workstation Solution

Virtual Clinical Workstations seek to provide physicians and clinicians the ability to focus more time and energy on the patient than with computer systems. It also reduces the administration overhead for the IT department through ease of deployment, consistency of desktop and applications for support purposes and quicker recoverability.

"The clinical workstation design that Coretek assisted in developing fits the fast pace, roaming work-flow of a clinical environment; [and] allows quick and easy access to clinical applications, improves application availability, reduces total cost of ownership, improves response time to reported problems, and improves the ability of our IT organization to rapidly deploy new clinical applications and upgrades."

- Daniel Stross, CIO Genesys Health System

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Power of VMware's Distributed Power Management

VMware Distributed Power Management

Consolidation of physical servers into virtual machines that share host physical resources can result in significant reductions in the costs associated with hardware maintenance and power consumption. VMware Distributed Power Management (VMware DPM) provides additional power savings beyond this initial benefit by dynamically consolidating workloads even further during periods of low resource utilization. Virtual machines are migrated onto fewer hosts and the unneeded ESX hosts are powered off. VMware DPM is an optional feature of VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).

Back in September for VMworld 08 a team of engineers at VMware setup a demo to showcase VMware's power management features. This demo drives a heavy, mixed workload for an eight-hour day and shows metered power usage throughout. The workload used was VMmark and the total power savings were over 55%! This feature (DPM) is available experimentally in VI3 and will be fully supported with the next release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CbRS0GGuNcyoutube.com/watch?v=7CbRS0GGuNc

Source: VMware

Coretek Services

Dell Flexible Computing Solutions

Making Today’s Challenges, Yesterday’s News

IT teams are consistently faced with the challenge of doing more with less. Nowhere is this truer than when it comes to supporting your end-users, while maintaining the IT control you need. Today’s challenges include:

• Seamless, fast support for end-users that could be across the street or across the globe


• Ensuring the security of corporate data (an ordinary drive can hold data with an estimated value between $1M and $8M)*


• Quickly and efficiently driving out the never-ending string of security and application patches


• Increasing device utilization, so that no compute power or dollar investment is wasted


• Meeting increasing SLA expectations without adding new resources


• Reducing power consumption across the board

Today there is a new answer to these challenges. With Dell’s Flexible Computing Solutions you can get enterprise-class desktop control, while delivering the flexibility your end-users need.

See overview of new FX160

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jM4j_NznUE

Source: Dell

Coretek Services

You vs. Downturn - Smart IT Spending for Recovery

CIO Prescription: How IT Is Riding Out The Recession

Some companies are cutting their IT budgets in response to the recession, while others are focusing on smart spending to be ready for the recovery.

Think small, quick, and impactful. That's the current mind-set of CIOs when it comes to IT spending and project planning amid the ongoing economic uncertainty.
CIOs aren't throwing Big Vision out the window, but they're under intense pressure to move up the priority list any work that can deliver returns quickly. For some companies, that means drastically cutting IT budgets, but that approach isn't universal--the companies we surveyed in November were exactly split, with a third cutting, a third maintaining, and a third increasing their IT spending.

More important is what gets done with the IT budgets companies have--only 16% of survey respondents say fewer new projects are coming through. Regardless of what's happening to the budget, demand for IT is up (see more data).

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Coretek Services

Source: Information Week