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VMware Desktop Virtualization Helps Healthcare Providers Improve Patient Care
Date:2/6/2008

down sensitive patient data and reduce the cost and complexity of desktop management. The combination of thin clients and blade servers used to access the centralized virtual desktops reduced power consumption across the hospital by 78%, improved longevity with lower hardware maintenance needs and made wireless thin clients on wheeled carts available to hospital staff for a full shift on a single charge. At the same time, the hospital is now able to provide doctors in the surrounding community the ability to remotely access centralized patient information via VMware virtual desktops through the Internet using a web browser, while maintaining the security of that data.

"With VMware virtual desktops, all of our sensitive patient data is stored in the datacenter, not on user machines, enabling improved compliance with HIPAA regulations," said Tony Wilburn, network specialist at Huntsville Hospital. "Additionally, we've been able to standardize desktop set-up, and centralize desktop management, which lowers support costs with fewer desktop technicians deployed to sterile hospital environments. VMware virtual desktops reduce maintenance and hardware costs because memory and CPU can be increased at the server, and desktop provisioning takes less than 15 minutes. With virtual desktops, we no longer need to dispatch desktop technicians out across the county to deal with problems doctors encounter on the client devices."

Metropolitan Health chooses VMware for state-of-the-art desktops

Metro Health is an independent, integrated health care system serving 130,000 patients across Michigan's Kent, Ottawa, and surrounding counties. As Metro Health planned a move to the newly constructed "hospital of the future" and explored options for a state-of-the-art desktop replacement solution to take them into the next decade, they turned to VMware virtual desktops for the hospital network and more than a dozen affiliated area clinics. Virtual desktops are used for mob
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