25.06.18
Can your network help transform your healthcare services?
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Danny Longbottom, director of local government & health, BT Business & Public Sector, says that embedding the right kind of tech will help healthcare staff deliver the best possible patient care – and Intelligent Connectivity may just be the perfect solution.
When you’re working in the health service, the decisions you make can have a big impact on patients’ lives. By giving your people everything they need to perform as efficiently as they can, you’ll help them deliver the best possible care.
Right now, everyone’s under pressure to do more for less. And you’re probably thinking about digital transformation – especially if you’re moving from N3 to the Health and Social Care Network (HSCN). You might be giving your people access to vital patient information, anywhere, through more cloud services. Or creating a joined-up service for patients, helping different disciplines share patient information securely. Maybe you’re looking at making more of video consultations. Or even going one step further and considering ways to help train surgeons through virtual reality.
With the right tech in place to do all these things, you’ll be saving time, hassle and money – an ideal outcome when budgets are stretched so tight. But healthcare covers many different services, so your challenge is to give everyone access to the same tools and services, and make sure they can work together.
For this, you need a network that’s both resilient and agile. Intelligent Connectivity is our solution. It brings together network access, management, and a software-defined overlay. But what does that mean to you? Quite simply, it gives you a more powerful and efficient network to connect your medical staff, your admin teams and your patients.
With Intelligent Connectivity, you’ll get a flexible network that brings everything together. Fixed, online and mobile. Old and new. That means there’s no need to get rid of your legacy IT: you can build around it, helping you move over to digital services at a pace that suits you. Using one provider to make sure all your services work together – without a hitch.
With a software-defined network, you can bring together the different network technologies you need and manage them centrally. It makes it easier to see what’s going on across your whole business and make changes fast. You’ll be able to adapt it as you rejig sites and services to cope with changing demands. And, regardless of size, location or complexity, you’ll save money.
Of course, if you want patients to be able to make appointments online, staff to share huge files (like MRI scans) or link up to remote specialists, you need to consider your connections. It’s why we offer 10Gb Fibre Network Access. It’s built to work perfectly with Intelligent Connectivity, and it’s got the reliability and capacity to help you handle big jumps in data traffic as your business grows.
And let’s not forget patient confidentiality – it’s always been important, and it’s come to the fore with GDPR regulations. The right network will help protect any data flowing between departments and sites. We embed security into everything we offer, so Intelligent Connectivity protects every site it covers – whether that’s a surgery, specialist clinic or hospital.
If it’s time to put your digital transformation plans into action, why not speak to us? We’ve got plenty of experience when it comes to delivering complex services to health and social care organisations. We know the kind of challenges you face. It means we can be a consistent partner in a time of constant change. And together, we’ll help you achieve your smarter digital future.
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