Virtustream,
the enterprise-class cloud company and a Dell Technologies business,
today announced the launch of the Virtustream Healthcare Cloud. The
service provides cloud-based hosting of mission critical healthcare
platforms and applications on Virtustream Enterprise Cloud in a
HIPAA/HITECH compliant environment with managed services and
infrastructure availability service level agreements (SLAs) of up to
99.999%. This service can be deployed in public cloud environments with
a complementary set of on and off premises managed services.
Healthcare organizations are undergoing a massive digital transformation
by expanding their use of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, and
integrating their EMRs with new patient engagement systems and
analytical precision medicine platforms. Simultaneously, they are faced
with personnel and capital constraints that make it difficult and costly
to maintain and manage IT on their own.
Virtustream Healthcare Cloud, which is built on Virtustream Enterprise
Cloud, is specifically designed for the highly secure, highly compliant,
complex IT landscapes and mission-critical applications that are endemic
to healthcare. With its consumption-based pricing model and robust
security services, Virtustream's healthcare offering ensures that
organizations only pay for what they use while protecting patient health
data end-to-end.
"Today's healthcare sector faces many pressure points. Providers must
modernize their IT infrastructure to support their evolving clinical
care and patient management systems, while aging infrastructure and
limited staff mean they're often completely consumed with managing
legacy day-to-day operations," said Michael Hoch, vice president,
Virtustream. "With our latest offering, Virtustream introduces an
enterprise-class solution to manage healthcare's most complex and
mission-critical applications, thus freeing healthcare providers not
only to embrace the digital future, but also to focus on their core
mission of saving patient lives."
This new offering will equip healthcare organizations with the optimal
cloud infrastructure and managed services needed to manage all of the
categories of mission critical applications including EMRs; ERP systems;
workforce management systems; precision medicine platforms; picture
archive and communication systems (PACS) as well as many other health IT
systems. Virtustream Healthcare Cloud fully supports both HIPAA and
HITECH compliance, and is designed to deliver rigorous, layered, defense
in depth security to protect sensitive patient health information.
Virtustream Healthcare Cloud also offers guaranteed in-region hosting,
to meet country-specific data residency requirements in all of
Virtustream's global locations.
Virtustream Healthcare Cloud will include a new offering: Virtustream
EMR Service for several leading EMR packages. The Virtustream EMR
Service will include Virtustream Enterprise Cloud, and optional managed
services for technical management of the EMR application suite's
infrastructure, database, application delivery, and data interfaces.
This new offering joins the 700+ healthcare and non-healthcare
applications (ERP, workforce management, Sharepoint, etc.) already
supported in the Virtustream Enterprise Cloud. It is particularly well
suited for customers modernizing, or planning to modernize, all or part
of their health IT environment.
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