Bringing Order to Healthcare IT Chaos

The United States’ Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH, aims to push hospitals and physicians to phase technology into their operations and offers financial incentives for those that show meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR) solutions. However, getting IT systems within different departments, buildings, campuses and localities, even countries, to share a common data language is a significant challenge, over and above implementing EHR systems at any one facility. Getting a framework where disparate healthcare systems from different vendors running on different virtualization platforms work together remains a premier challenge for various healthcare organizations.

Learn how the Dell™ Virtual Integrated System (VIS) architecture can offer healthcare organizations a way to take advantage of a private cloud model — even across multiple hypervisor environments — to improve the efficiency of their virtualization deployments while reducing the number of tools and processes that IT staff have to touch as part of daily operations.

Dell VIS suite includes the following solutions:

• Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) — provides the centralized management framework that combines hardware and virtualization platforms from disparate vendors into one unified cloud.
• Microsoft® System Center — enables centralized and automated management of the physical and virtual elements in the data center, increasing server utilization and optimizing resource allocation across multiple locations and virtualization platforms. When integrated with Microsoft® Hyper-V™, System Center works with VMware® ESX and other hypervisors to perform common management tasks such as creating, placing, deploying and removing virtual machines. System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), a key component of the System Center solutions, delivers end-to-end, virtual-to-physical visibility and management of multivendor hypervisor environments. SCVMM also supports a range of virtualization options in addition to servers, such as desktop, application and presentation virtualization.
• Dell VIS Self-Service Creator — enables IT administrators to customize a catalog of basic work flows, processes and departmental profiles that automate many of the day-to-day tasks associated with healthcare IT. VIS Self-Service Creator works across all the resources in the cloud, from virtualization hypervisors to connection brokers to storage devices and server image deployment technologies, regardless of vendor. It manages virtual server resources and virtual desktops, as well.
• Dell VIS Director — provides the monitoring and reporting functions needed to fully leverage the benefits of a cloud environment. Performance monitoring, capacity planning and cost-allocation features provide comprehensive visibility and transparency for healthcare IT utilization.

Together, AIM and System Center support dynamic allocation of servers, network connectivity and storage; automatic and intelligent redeployment of workloads; and seamless migration of data between physical servers and virtual machines. Dell also offers unified control for dynamic, heterogeneous data centers, and supports a wide variety of infrastructure elements, regardless of manufacturer, model, form factor or access protocol.

Backed by experienced Dell Healthcare representatives who are on-hand to assess organizational needs, design solutions and implement them effectively, your hospital or healthcare facility is assured of ongoing support and growth. Dell also provides a single point of contact for support and life cycle maintenance, delivering Microsoft expertise as well as hardware and management software support.