Greater Lawrence Family Health Center
Date
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7/1/2010
The Dell solution gives us the ability to add blades as we have more users, so we can keep our number of users per server down to an acceptable level.
— Jim Malerbi, director of information services, Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, United States
Challenge
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center needed to simplify and upgrade its IT infrastructure to meet tight space requirements and higher performance standards, while providing a scalable solution for future growth.Solution
The center consolidated its Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system onto Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers with Intel® processors, providing doctors, pharmacists and lab technicians with seamless access to patient records. The solution has allowed Greater Lawrence to increase capacity while remaining within the same server room, solving the healthcare provider’s data center cooling issues while contributing to better patient care.Benefits
- 50 percent reduction in rack space required to scale using virtualization and Dell blades
- Nearly 50 percent reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) for blade solution over IBM® and HP®
- Eightfold faster deployment of Citrix® servers for EMR access
- Additional capacity to add Windows®-based graphical user interface (GUI) to EMR system
- Elimination of cooling issues in data center
- 78 percent reduction in cabling for Citrix environment with Dell blades (8 cables versus 36)
- Greater flexibility in testing and development
- Ability to scale for four to five years in same server room
