The healthcare industry continues to undergo rapid changes, putting increasing pressure on organizations to embrace innovative and agile methodologies in order to improve the quality of patient care and reduce operational expenses. Nutanix enables healthcare organizations to simplify operations and focus on delivering better patient outcomes and clinician productivity. 

Over the past few years, the healthcare industry has undergone major technological advancements that are driving a need to modernize IT. With these advancements have come a slew of changes in managing and administering healthcare, including stringent requirements for maintaining and protecting electronic healthcare records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs). But with such impactful changes come challenges to many organizations—and those challenges begin with the infrastructure. As IT personnel scramble to meet a growing list of infrastructure requirements—simplicity, efficiency, agility, scalability, resiliency, security, and cost efficiency—they are forced to reevaluate their underlying infrastructures. This comprehensive reevaluation is paving the way for modern infrastructures, such as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), to help healthcare organizations more easily meet the requirements and regulations required to deliver healthcare quickly, effectively, and securely.  

Overall, IT’s objective is to solve today’s infrastructure requirements, which in turn allows organizations to be responsive to user demands, while providing a foundation to support tomorrow’s goals. IT must be viewed less as a cost center and more as a business enabler—an innovator that can truly provide value to the business. And those benefits as they relate to healthcare must extend from providers to payers, while always keeping the patient in mind.

The Need to Transform IT in Healthcare

IT organizations in the healthcare space are at a crossroads. IT is tasked with supporting next-generation workloads and must respond to real-time needs of the business— while at the same time, the complexity of legacy infrastructures is limiting their ability to effectively execute. In fact, ESG research shows that two-thirds (66%) of healthcare organizations say that IT is more complex today than it was two years ago. 

IT is struggling to keep up with proliferating endpoint devices, rising data volumes, legacy systems, and a growing number of applications (both clinical and IT). While these are just several reasons for IT’s unsettling state of affairs, one of the top reasons cited for IT struggling in the healthcare space as a whole is the inability of the current architecture to meet the growing needs of healthcare organizations. In recognizing they cannot continue doing business in the same way they have in the past, organizations are beginning to undertake major digital transformation initiatives to change or modify their technology so operations are more efficient, more secure, and more cost-effective. 

Digitally Transforming Healthcare with Nutanix  

Nutanix is a recognized global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions. Bringing together compute, storage, networking, virtualization, data protection, security, and application automation. Healthcare organizations around the world use Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software to bring one-click application management and mobility across public, private, and distributed clouds thereby improving clinical and IT workflows throughout the continuum of care. This simplicity and freedom to build the preferred cloud deployment allows customers to run any applications such as EMR/EHR, PACS, and Big Data that helps improve the quality of patient care and lower the total cost of ownership. Organizations can achieve improvements to performance, scalability, security, accessibility, and availability across the healthcare information value chain, from providers, such as a doctor’s office, clinics, or hospitals, to payers, such as healthcare insurance companies.   

Providing a secure, scalable infrastructure that tightly aligns to a healthcare organization’s requirements can assist organizations in attaining greater productivity across the business, directly and positively impacting patient experiences with faster, better, and more cost-effective care. 

Whether consolidating legacy infrastructures, simplifying management, aligning IT to embrace a cloud-operating model through hybrid cloud infrastructure, or integrating next-generation technologies like AI and IoT, healthcare organizations recognize the importance of becoming more agile, efficient, and cost-effective in meeting both business and patient expectations. With Nutanix, organizations gain the tools and experience to help achieve those goals. 

Leveraging Choice Solutions & Nutanix to Accelerate Innovation

At Choice Solutions we work across several industries, however serving healthcare organizations has grown into our largest areas of value. Our focus and expertise to help organizations improve user experience accessing applications as well as adopting simpler, more secure IT environments from the datacenter to the endpoint help healthcare organizations succeed. Clinicians and physicians are able to gain access to EMR and core applications productively while IT teams leverage infrastructure platforms that reduce complexity, improve security and facilitate growth. 

Whether you are an enterprise healthcare system, a regional specialist with clinics, rural hospital or smaller practice we are the partner you are looking for to transform your healthcare workplace. We have years of experience providing effective and innovative managed IT services in the healthcare industry. Contact us today to see how we can help.