Extreme Networks announced that several healthcare organisations across the globe have deployed Extreme solutions to provide secure patient care and improve operations across their facilities.
Concord Hospital and Prima CARE in the US, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in the UK, Elisabeth TweeSteden Ziekenhuis (ETZ) in the Netherlands, Charité in Germany, ASST Mantova in Italy and the CHU Dijon Bourgogne in France chose Extreme to protect sensitive patient data, support bandwidth-intensive medical applications and devices and automate processes.
ExtremeCloud IQ and Wi-Fi solutions help automate processes such as medication administration, patient monitoring and room assignments and help reduce manual errors and improve efficiency across the facility.
Concord Hospital, a not-for-profit regional health system in New Hampshire, needed to integrate two smaller regional hospitals into its network without sacrificing consistency of care or interrupting operations. Leveraging Extreme Wi-Fi 6 Access Points and Universal Switches, Concord Hospital was able to update its infrastructure across all three sites. Additionally, with Extreme Fabric Connect, the health system was able to automate the attachment of users and devices from the two smaller hospitals, without heavy IT involvement.
Mark Starry, Chief Technology Officer, Concord Hospital, “With Extreme Fabric Connect, we were able to complete the integration in a matter of weeks, versus years, without sacrificing uptime, security or a consistent flow of operations. Outdated technology holds so many organisations back from reaching their full potential.”
Prima CARE, a multi-speciality group in Massachusetts, needed to upgrade its wireless network to keep up with patient and staff needs. With ExtremeCloud IQ, the network manager can monitor network performance from a single application, make changes as necessary in real-time and keep firmware updated. With staff and patients no longer reporting Wi-Fi issues or downtime, Prima CARE can add more devices and digital services that rely on the network.
Andrew Smith, Head of Digital Service Delivery, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, “Our wireless network is the central nervous system of our operations – driving everything from access to patient records to blood pressure monitoring to advanced radiology applications and everything in between. With Wi-Fi 6E from Extreme managed through ExtremeCloud IQ, we can effectively manage devices and applications across our network, improve the quality of telehealth visits and benefit from faster transmission speeds for large data files such as MRI, radiography and ultrasounds.”
Doug McDonald, Director, Extreme Alliance in the Office of the CTO, Extreme Networks, “For a healthcare provider, the network really is the lifeblood of the organization. Everything from workstations at patient check-in to medical devices that monitor patient vitals or tablets used for video calls is powered by the network.”
