This industry is rushing to redefine the way it processes patient information. But the health care system is made up of not only large hospitals and managed care facilities but also tens of thousands of individual practitioners and small clinics. Outsource IT with the use of thin clients, new high-speed connections, and the Internet. North Memorial Health Care is an excellent case in point. By keeping all servers and applications in one location and providing physicians with an open-ended lease on software and hardware, it deployed a system that represents no capitol outlay for clinics and is installed with a zero percent productivity loss to physicians.
Remote users think they are part of a local area network because access performance is outstanding.
And word of mouth has created enormous demand that North Memorial is scrambling to meet. By leveraging its IT resources, North Memorial provides independent clinics with an advanced medical system and a competitive edge against large-scale managed care organizations. At the same time, the company is lowering costs for maintaining its own infrastructure. With an ASP solution, customers transparently access the latest application software using thin clients that they purchase or lease. For users, this kind of solution means dramatically lower and more predictable costs, much faster access to new applications, and far fewer administrative headaches.