Level 3 Communications, Inc. announced today that Collaborative Telecare Networks (CTN), a provider of network connectivity for the healthcare industry, has chosen the company to improve the efficiency, security and reliability of the company's network capabilities.
CTN said in a press release it will use Level 3's Internet protocol (IP) and colocation services to guide healthcare organizations to reliable, secure and scalable high-performance of their IT networks with minimal time delay to support emerging telemedicine applications, and to ensure their data stays protected.
"Collaborative Telecare is dedicated to ensuring healthcare providers have the bandwidth performance capabilities, redundancy and security necessary to support cutting-edge technology applications in telemedicine," said Steve Ward, CEO of Collaborative Telecare Networks. "Level 3's advanced IP services are industry leading in terms of latency performance. They enable us to provide a better customer experience and provide us access to a truly global network backbone capable of expanding as our customer base and needs grow."
Telemedicine, the use of remote devices to monitor the health of those with chronic disease, has caused medical organizations to demand network solutions that are capable of ensuring that their IT systems stay online, all the time.
As the healthcare industry changes how it stores, shares and manages patient information, medical research, telemedicine applications and other medical data, IT networks must rise to each occasion.
“Meeting the pressing information needs of health care reform will require a clear strategy and close collaboration among the government agencies, private data organizations and researchers producing needed data and information,” the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), US Department of Health and Human Services, stated in 2009.
AHRQ holds that healthcare reform will call for “strong coordination between the producers and users of that information.” Connectivity is what paves the way.
The industry continues to struggle with the explosion in data, accompanying the required transition of patient information to digital data, storable and shareable seamlessly over communications networks.
The requirements of healthcare reform have caused the industry to demand incessantly better connectivity for their networks.
"Given the advances being made today in mobile healthcare and telemedicine, healthcare organizations increasingly need network partners that can help them deliver critical services as efficiently and securely as possible, while ensuring their ability to scale to meet any future demand," said Karl Strohmeyer, senior vice president of sales for Level 3.
Edited by
Braden Becker
