Mason General Hospital
Date
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1/1/2011
With Dell, we can be fiscally responsible and provide excellent service at the same time.
Tom Hornburg, Director of IT, Mason General Hospital, United States
Challenge
Mason General Hospital needed a reliable, scalable platform for virtualization and data mining, as well as specialized medical applications. The hospital wanted to reduce its total cost of ownership for IT while improving efficiency and meeting compliance requirements.Solution
Deploy Dell PowerEdge™ servers with Intel® processors and Dell PowerVault™ storage to support critical systems; replace HP thin clients with Dell OptiPlex™ desktop PCs at nurse’s stations and bedside carts.Benefits
• 25 percent reduction in total cost of ownership for IT• Able to meet Stage 1 criteria for Meaningful Use/HITECH compliance
• 40 servers consolidated down to 3
• New servers in hours instead of months
• Projected 18,000+ staff hours reclaimed per year by enabling single sign-on to emergency department information system
• Two-fold performance increase for data mining and reporting
• Users with proper credentials can view security cameras from a web browser
• 200+ nurse/clinician hours saved per year and reduced potential for error with automated IV pumps
• $80,000 annual cost avoidance on data protection service
• Able to keep 30 days’ worth of backup data on site, enabling fast restores from disk
• Seconds to recover individual emails vs. more than 1 hour previously
• Client computing hassles eliminated by switching from HP thin clients to Dell OptiPlex desktops
