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Rethink EHR Delivery For Healthcare

 

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Introduction

The adoption of any new technology in healthcare comes with far more complexities than most other industries. The rollout and management of EHR (Electronic Health Record) is no different. The main factors driving healthcare to adopt EHR, either mandated by government regulations or voluntary adoption are to improve patient care while still managing to cut costs and operate in a highly regulated environment. For a variety of reasons including those mentioned above, the healthcare IT industry is looking to partner with strategic IT vendors who can help healthcare organizations succeed with EHR Implementation and long term management.

Implementing a comprehensive EHR strategy is not an easy task. Distributed PC and application management is complex and costly. The risk of not meeting business expectations, security breaches with health records on end user points and the pain associated with rolling out new applications, updating and patching them are reasons why healthcare IT is looking for desktop virtualization solutions. Citrix® is the leading provider of healthcare IT solutions today. From enabling fast and successful EHR implementations to reducing desktop and application management costs and improving patient data security, Citrix provides an end-to-end solution recommended by major EHR vendors and top healthcare organizations.

Citrix enables fast and easy company wide rollouts of applications such as Cerner Millennium®, GE® Centricity®, Eclipsys® Sunrise Clinical Manager™ and

many more. With Citrix Solutions you can:

• Implement a comprehensive and successful EHR strategy that centralizes desktop and data management thereby, eliminating security breaches and reducing operational costs by up to 40%.

• Deliver customized desktops and EHR apps as an on-demand service thereby, simplifying management and refreshes, improving security and end-user experience that result in reduced IT support.

• Deliver your critical EMR apps with a high-definition user experience from any device, anytime, anywhere thereby, improving provider workflow productivity.

Reducing costs while implementing a successful EHR strategy

Citrix XenDesktop can help your organization reduce desktop and EMR application management costs by up to 40%. Powerful management tools and centralized architecture eliminate the need to install or manage your

EMR apps on distributed end point devices; therefore, reducing app compatibility, testing and maintenance and support costs. Centralization of desktop management drastically reduces chances of data security breaches covered under HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and its new extension, the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) act and likewise other regulatory compliance laws across the globe. IT can monitor security breaches and implement controls that determine what data can be saved at the end user’s device and what is strictly to be saved on the server.

Citrix is the preferred brand for healthcare IT needs that has helped thousands of organizations embark on and implement an efficient EHR infrastructure.

Deliver EMR as an on-demand service

With Citrix XenDesktop, IT staff can get back time in their day! Rather than having to manage hundreds or thousands of different kinds of user devices, IT staff can simply and quickly install and manage a single desktop and EMR application package in the datacenter. Virtualized Desktops and EMR apps can then be delivered in a matter of minutes and updates can be made instantly throughout the enterprise. With the time and cost savings that virtualization enables, IT staff can now spend more time enabling new business initiatives and less time managing help desk calls.

XenDesktop’s open architecture also allows customers to build on and improve efficiency of their existing IT infrastructure; therefore, enabling potential cost savings for

deploying a new EHR infrastructure. XenDesktop provides enterprise wide management, scalability and support for heterogeneous environments. User experience

will also reach a new high with FlexCast technology that delivers either hosted, streamed or local desktops and EMR apps, depending on what’s most appropriate to meet a diverse set of user needs.

The looming Windows®7 migration can also be addressed

with XenDesktop. Migrate thousands of devices within hours rather than weeks without disrupting workflow productivity.

IT also needs to extend access to external communities like labs, doctors and hospitals, vendors, etc. over various networks such as WAN, Internet, etc. Citrix provides

solutions such as NetScaler and Branch Repeater that optimize delivery of web-based applications and optimize performance of EMR apps over WAN all while securing patient data/medical records and providing a high quality user experience.

 

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Time  to  Renovate  Your  Clinical  Infrastructure  

                   

 

 

                                                                                                                                   

Clinician acceptance of EMR made easy with XenDesktop

As a clinician, you never stop working and want efficient, reliable systems so you can focus on providing superior patient care. The Citrix XenDesktop uses Desktop Virtualization to provide fast access to critical EMR apps with a consistent interface that clinicians are used to. You can access EMR apps securely from any device, anytime, anywhere with the same desktop experience that you have now. With Instant Access, users receive a persistent desktop session from one device or location to another in no time. Therefore, the “user session” follows the clinician anywhere saving valuable time and improving workflow productivity. The CitrixHDX technology also provides a high-definition user experience for data or graphic-intense EMR apps regardless of device or location. This is especially important if your radiologists and other technicians need fast access and high-definition user experiences from remote locations including other countries. All this is possible while ensuring patient data security with state of the art SSL VPN technology and strong authentication that supports biometric, proximity smart card and token solutions.

With the advent of new mobile devices like iPhone®, iPad™ and other small tablets specifically for healthcare, more clinicians are looking for solutions that enable EMR delivery on mobile devices. Citrix XenDesktop enables EMR delivery on any mobile device, anytime, anywhere.

About  Citrix  

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 Implement  a  comprehensive  and  successful  EHR  strategy  with  Citrix  XenDesktop  that  centralizes  desktop  and  EMR  management  thereby  eliminating  security  breaches  and  reducing  operational  costs.