There’s no denying that caregiver priorities like clinical outcomes and patient experience are inextricably linked to a healthcare organization’s IT infrastructure—in the data center, in the cloud, and at the edge. With the right IT infrastructure, healthcare organizations can turn challenges into opportunities for safer care and transformation.
A challenging healthcare landscape demands new approaches
Today’s healthcare organizations don’t have a choice; they need to do more with less/the same. Industry pressures include an aging population, global novel diseases and a backlog of critical and elective procedures. But it is difficult to meet these demands with a declining number of healthcare staff, complex workflows, and rising costs associated with maintaining legacy IT systems.
The answer lies in new approaches to healthcare that stretch from edge to cloud.
- At the far edge, consumer electronics, such as wearable devices, turn analog data like footsteps, heart rate, and blood pressure into digital signals.
- At the edge, connected medical devices in patients' homes and at hospital bedsides can monitor vital signs and feed data into the patient's health record, while tele-healthcare solutions enable patients and clinicians to share data to enable a richer patient care experience.
- In the data center, X-rays, MRI images, medical records and more can be consolidated so that caregivers and patients alike can make better health-focused decisions.
- In the cloud, patients can access education on their conditions so they can care for themselves, while data can safely travel between patient and admin teams working in a hybrid cloud environment.
The combination of all available digital data is key to understanding how to improve clinical efficiencies.
Simplify and modernize your IT environment with dHCI
While more data can help improve healthcare—from understanding how people move through a hospital facility to developing personalized medicine, from population healthcare studies to DNA analysis—managing data and applications on infrastructure spread from edge to cloud can be a CIO’s nightmare. That’s where disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI) from HPE and AMD comes in.
dHCI is a new approach to HCI; think of it as HCI 2.0. With dHCI, healthcare organizations can scale storage separately from compute, but still reap the manageability advantages of traditional HCI. dHCI can help lower total cost of ownership (TCO) while providing the simplicity, reliability, and security the healthcare industry demands.
dHCI runs on HPE servers and is powered by AMD EPYC processors. With dHCI, healthcare CIOs can count on the following benefits:
- An intelligently simple platform that offers on-demand full-stack intelligence and policy-based automation for VM-centric management.
- Efficient scalability that lets compute and storage grow independently.
- 6-9’s resiliency with all-flash speed and sub-millisecond latency for always-on apps.[i]
- Security features that include a built-in HPE silicon root of trust and advanced AMD EPYC processor security capabilities.
- Accelerated time to value and simplified healthcare IT management using the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform—pay monthly for only what you use and convert capital to operating expense.
Overall, HPE dHCI can boost clinical efficiency for critical-to-care and workplace apps, including access to medical records, email, imaging, billing, ePrescriptions, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and more, while lowering TCO by up to 2.5x.[ii] You can use dHCI to continue the journey to mature digital healthcare, where insights travel with the patient, scientific discovery is accelerated, and medical data is protected—all while improving the patient experience.
If you want to consolidate workloads, increase healthcare access, decrease costs, and use resources more effectively and efficiently, consider deploying dHCI from HPE and AMD in combination with the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. Learn more by reading the solution brief, Modern Infrastructure for Modern Healthcare.
[i] https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/ a00026086enw?from=app§ion= search&isFutureVersion=true
Rich_Bird
Rich Bird has worked in the IT industry for 20 years with some of the largest commercial brands. For the last 5 years he’s been focused on healthcare IT at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and believes deeply that digital technologies can, will and need to have an impact on the delivery of better healthcare, for people all over the world. Educated in Computer Science at Coventry University, and starting his career as a network engineer for Rolls Royce, he moved into human communications roles in 2006. Rich leads teams in delivering integrated marketing campaigns into National, local and regional Governments in the UK, where Rich found his passion for making the complex concepts of IT, simple and understandable for his audience. During this time he found his true calling, Healthcare, and how digitization can improve real people lives. He created a companywide growth board focusing on the UK NHS, pulling together disparate teams of sales, marketing, solutions architects, chief technologists and the country leadership teams for HP/HPE UK. Rich is a strategic thinker who understands the practical elements that are required to get the job done and deliver real impact. His areas of specialization include Healthcare IT, Marketing, Communications, and NLP.