Healthcare Technology and IT Solutions
High-value, high-performance solutions for the healthcare industry
Healthcare providers today are facing a wide range of transformational issues – from providing quality healthcare, reducing medical errors, efficiently managing their practices, tracking assets and resources, assuring patient privacy, storing large amounts of patient data offsite, complying with government regulations, to minimizing costs and enhancing services.
Windstream delivers the healthcare technology and IT solutions healthcare providers need to meet these objectives. We offer IT, security, communications, and network solutions enabling healthcare providers to be responsive to patients, better share critical data, safeguard patient privacy, increase operational efficiency and improve clinical health outcomes.
BUSINESS CHALLENGES:
Ensure patient privacy
Health care organizations are mandated to take serious measures to protect the safety and integrity of the patient information they collect. Our industry-leading healthcare technology solutions can help you protect your patient data and share it with the people who need it securely, safely and efficiently.
Improved patient safety
Modern healthcare practices often results in a variety of institutions treating the same patient. More and more, health care organizations are relying on leading-edge technological innovations to collaborate in treatment and share patient information in order to improve the coordination of care and better provide for the safety of patients. Networking solutions from Windstream can help you reduce wait times, select the most appropriate courses of treatment and improve patient safety.
Increase cost efficiency and improve productivity
Due to decreasing government allocations and private donor funds, healthcare organizations require new and practical ways to reduce their costs and improve staff and operational efficiencies. With Windstream’s proven healthcare technology solutions, we can help you reduce waste and improve efficiency, benefiting your internal operations and your bottom line.
Critical applications driving demand for reliable bandwidth
Health care is becoming more and more sophisticated, with increased imaging capabilities, growing use of remote diagnostic tools, and government regulations such as HIPPA that stipulate medical records be kept in secure, offsite locations. The growing use of technology in healthcare has increased the need for more bandwidth to move the data. This is driving demand for reliable and secure bandwidth to regional hospitals, medical centers, community clinics, emergency services, and other healthcare providers. Windstream’s extensive networking solutions provide the reliable and secure connections necessary to support critical applications and ensure compliance with patient privacy regulations.
HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS FROM WINDSTREAM:
Windstream VPN provides a secure connection for healthcare organizations, ensuring patient data transmission is in compliance with critical regulations such as HIPAA. Network remote and central locations together with the highest level of security while providing distributed access to patient records and other services. Windstream VPN provides a robust, reliable platform for integrating voice, video, and Internet applications into the medical environment including electronic medical records, centralized messaging and voicemail, computerized physician order entry, and picture archiving and retrieval.
Windstream offers various dedicated Internet connectivity options over our robust carrier-class IP network using T-1 hand-offs to deliver the reliable and secure connections necessary to support critical applications and ensure compliance with patient privacy regulations.
Windstream Ethernet Internet improves efficiencies in medical offices for accessing the Internet with fast and reliable dedicated Internet access over Ethernet to send large amounts of data to offsite storage and share patient data securely. Ethernet Internet offers affordable dedicated bandwidth that’s secure, easily scalable, and offers the plug-and-play simplicity of Ethernet.
Healthcare providers house large amounts of sensitive patient data, making them prime targets for identify theft. Windstream’s managed security solutions provide scalable, comprehensive privacy protection for sensitive patient records against network-level and content-level threats without degrading performance of critical applications, network availability, or uptime. Our managed security platform offers unified threat management: stateful firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention/detection, secure remote access, web content filtering, and more.
Working in the medical industry involves a lot of communication with physicians, internal teams, vendors, and partners. We offer a full suite of audio and web conferencing services to ensure healthcare staff has the ability to collaborate with key resources in real-time for fast and accurate resolution to patient issues. Manage costs while improving patient care.
From medical alarms and alerts, security compliance, to mobility solutions, Windstream offers a vast array of customer premise equipment options that enables healthcare providers to improve patient care while managing costs. We have healthcare technology equipment solutions that enable faster and more accurate resolutions to patient issues, allow for collaboration with key resources in real-time, and allows access to critical information while meeting security compliance.