Because businesses need to collaborate securely in unique ways across divisions, departments, and physical geographies, the collaborative technology teams and solutions needed to support their mission must be comprehensive and adaptive while maintaining the highest standards. This collaborative capability has never been more critical than it is in the healthcare industry. Now, LightEdge Solutions, a global cloud computing provider, has teamed up with the state of Iowa’s healthcare system to provide unparalleled network connectivity.
Two of the more sensitive issues in healthcare today revolve around the delivery of effective IT services and secure data storage. As the digitalization of the healthcare field continues apace, many national healthcare systems are turning to certified vendors and providers to guarantee efficient cloud-based services. LightHouse Solutions’ cutting edge data center provides the kinds of virtual servers, data storage, business continuity (BC), and disaster recovery services that are critical to the 24/7 responsiveness that characterize today’s modern hospitals and clinics.
LightHouse Solutions’ partnership with HealthNet connect will link Iowa Health System’s 11 major hospitals via its 3,200-mile fiber optic network with a near-zero failure rate. Moreover, LightHouse will leverage its cloud-computing resources to process more than eight million daily transactions using fiber connectivity that will join facilities as far away as Chicago and Denver.
According to Jeff Springborn, president and chief operating officer of LightEdge Solutions, “LightEdge is in a unique position to impact the medical community of Iowa by offering access to secure and less costly IT platforms that can be shared across a multitude of clinic sites.”
In the end, collaboration is not solely based on a single technology. Rather it’s a method that depends on the right technology inserted into existing processes to increase communications flow, improve efficiency, and reduce the mean time to decision without negatively impacting patient outcomes. The healthcare industry, with its specialists and services spread across wide areas, represents a business model where near-instant communication and access to data is essential. As a certified cloud-services IT vendor, LightHouse Solutions is in a unique position to enable modern healthcare to reach the next level of managed-care effectiveness.
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Kerry Doyle has written extensively on high tech issues for over 15 years. He specializes in computing trends vital to SMBs and enterprises alike, from virtualization and cloud computing, to disaster recovery and network storage.Edited by
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