In March 2020, many office workers packed up their bags under the mandate of their employers, assuming they’d be working from home for a few weeks so the coronavirus could “blow over.” Fast-forward two years: many of those same employees have yet to step foot back into their old offices, and some never will again. A similar trend is playing out in healthcare. When COVID-19 started, many health systems rapidly adopted virtual care models as a matter of necessity to keep as many non-COVID
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What’s the Secret to Building the Hospital of the Future? Simplicity.
As the healthcare industry becomes more connected, executives are increasingly looking for ways to digitally transform and provide next-level, life-saving care to patients. But it comes at a cost — and it’s not just monetary. The spiraling complexity of hospital networks is becoming a massive problem for health IT staff, and it’s inhibiting hospitals’ ability to advance. Brought on by years of network technologies and applications being layered onto the existing hospital infrastructure,
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COVID-19: 5 Steps for Health IT Teams to Accommodate New Demands
The rapid escalation of COVID-19 patient cases has created new challenges for healthcare organizations to scale up testing and care services, while also reducing risk for non-critical patients or care workers. Healthcare IT professionals are being asked to digitally transform overnight, in supporting remote workers, telemedicine, outdoor triage tents, and a surge in patients and connected devices. Here are five key steps for healthcare IT departments to take in order to accommodate the new
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5 Strategies to Achieve Successful IoT in Healthcare
The future of healthcare looks well connected, but it’s going to require real strategy to get there. Extreme Networks’ Director of Health Solutions Bob Zemke explains.Connectivity—it lies at the heart of Internet of Things (IoT) and every innovation that promises to transform healthcare. It's one of the hardest challenges for healthcare organizations to take on, as the number of apps and devices continue to multiply and all are expected to thrive in a vast and varied technological
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Extreme Networks Launches AI-Powered Edge Network Solution For Healthcare Environments
From the diverse users passing through a healthcare setting to the patient-critical devices connecting to the network, healthcare environments are increasingly complex. Hospitals become more challenging when you consider wired legacy devices with subpar security systems.To address the growing need for intelligence, adaptability and security at the edge, Extreme launched Smart OmniEdge to deliver a consistent customer-driven experience via the flexibility of an on-premise deployment or
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5 Reasons Why End-to-End Network Solutions are Vital to the Healthcare Data Revolution
Extreme Network’s Bob Nilsson talks about why comprehensive network solutions are the way of the future for HIT, and why health organizations should invest in them now.In case you missed it, the world has gone mobile. Look up from your screen and look around; chances are, those around you are looking at screens, too. Innovation and consumer demand have led many an industry to its virtual tipping point. Now, healthcare is on the heels of its own tech-fueled transformation.What started with
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