Clinical Efficiency

• Today, many applications require their own user name and password. With SSO, credentials used to authenticate into the network can be passed through to other applications. This eliminates the need to enter them separately and reduces the amount of time users spend accessing the information they need.

Roaming Sessions

• Roaming sessions allow users to maintain a consistent computing session despite changes in location or device. Users are able to move freely throughout the hospital - from a patient room, to a nursing station, to a lab - with no need to log on and off each time a session is initiated. This persistent-state roaming session saves time for clinicians and prevents repeatable tasks such as saving work, shutting down applications and logging off a terminal to then log onto another terminal. With MCC, clinicians can access their desktop with a continuous session throughout the day – regardless of device or location – exactly as they left it.
• Follow-me printing - When the clinician needs to send information to a printer, the device location determines which printer receives the job. This “follow-me” printing capability provides location flexibility and enhanced productivity for clinicians. At the same time, data security is improved as patient information no longer sits, uncollected, due to misdirected print jobs.

Mobile Devices

• Some healthcare environments may require mobile wireless devices such as workstations on wheels, notebooks, tablets or tablet convertibles to provide total mobility to the bedside. Session mobility provided by MCC can enable sessions to become mobile rather than requiring dedicated mobile devices. Users can transfer from a fixed device to a mobile device as needed when the functionality is required.

Proven Results

• Dell performed MCC trials at 10 hospitals in 6 countries across Europe. The MCC trials were sponsored by Intel and researched by Ignetica, according to the Business Value of IT (BVIT) methodology. The proven results of the trials can be found in our whitepaper and you can witness firsthand the benefits of MCC from five of the participating hospitals.
• Across all the trials the average reduction in authentication time, including application access, reduced by 83%, ranging from 71% to 94%. By reducing access time from minutes to seconds, full authentication becomes both practical and vastly simplified.
• Based on the trial results and further analysis of the potential in full-scale deployment, staff productivity estimated a gain of up to 215+ minutes per user, per week – a 9% overall productivity gain.