The limitations of traditional hospital management systems include extensive onsite hardware, manual configurations, and significant IT resources, impeding the overall effectiveness and efficiency of hospital operations. Taking an innovative approach to healthcare infrastructure with cloud computing, however, can help meet the evolving demands and challenges of healthcare providers with more flexible, scalable, and efficient hospital management.
VMware Cloud Foundation™ (VCF) Professional Services can help automate and streamline the deployment and management of hospital services, transforming hospital operations with enhanced agility, reliability, and overall effectiveness. By implementing a private cloud infrastructure with VCF for Hospital as a Service (HaaS) operations, hospitals can benefit from:
- Rapid deployment: Faster setup of new hospitals and clinics with minimal manual intervention, ensuring faster access to essential healthcare services across multiple locations
- Scalability: Optimized resource utilization through the cloud-based nature of HaaS operations, easily scaling up or down depending on factors such as patient volume
- Cost efficiency: Reduced need for large capital investments in physical infrastructure, allowing redirection of funds to patient care and other critical hospital management areas
- Enhanced security: HaaS design to meet stringent healthcare compliance and security requirements for patient data and regulatory standards
- Centralized management: Unified platform to manage all aspects of hospital operations, improving coordination and efficiency
HaaS in action: One customer’s success story
After spending several years unsuccessfully trying to build a private cloud with another company, a large healthcare provider invested in VCF Professional Services for their VCF private cloud HaaS implementation.
Their needs included data centers for new hospitals and clinics as well as extensive compliance, security, and automation requirements. This customer’s internal teams initially lacked the architectural and automation skills required to successfully deliver the project, and professional services were critical to meet project demands and timelines. Solutions provided during this implementation include:
- Designed architecture to provide a consistent experience across 13 hospitals (scalable for growth) with one VCF instance utilizing one remote cluster per hospital
- Created workflows and cloud templates to integrate the Central Active Directory and Exchange for more than 40,000 employees
- Developed automation to create new file server clusters, SQL clusters, and specialized hospital applications including life-saving device management and imaging systems
- Configured an automation process to eliminate manual configuration post-deployment
- Designed a new, centralized operating model consisting of one operations team for the hospital system’s infrastructure, configuration, and management
- Transferred knowledge through ongoing training sessions to customer teams to enable functional operations of their environment
This customer’s successful implementation of VCF for HaaS resulted in significant operational efficiencies, reducing data center deployment time to hours versus the months required with traditional, manual hospital management systems.
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