Einstein Healthcare Network has chosen Line Systems as its sole integrated communications provider in the Philadelphia region, connecting more than 40 different healthcare locations throughout the region.
The solution provides high-bandwidth capabilities for voice and data networking, and links all locations back to the Einstein host.
"The main business driver prompting the need for a scalable, high-bandwidth networking solution was our new records keeping system that requires all of our physician sites to connect to the main hospital and get records from the hospital as well as the backup center," said Brenda G. West, assistant vice president of information systems at Einstein Healthcare Network.
The new customized solution will also allow Einstein to consolidate its service providers, with their multiple bills, to one Line Systems invoice, and the scalability of the solution also lets the healthcare organization use its network when providing free screenings to members of the local communities that it serves.
Hospitals require high bandwidth for many reasons, for everything from sending an email (0.01 MB) to listening to Pandora in the OR for one hour (56.25 MB), according to the University of Texas at Austin. And since healthcare organizations need to exchange huge volumes of digital content, bandwidth is extremely important when implementing a system set up to do that.
And what about social media? A story from 2010 noted that seven percent of all business Internet traffic at that time was going to Facebook and 10 percent of bandwidth used in a business, toward YouTube, even though these are not work-related and often not allowed.
But they do exist, and drain resources. Hospitals require a consistently increasing demand for bandwidth because of “legacy wiring, switches, etc. So imagine opening the flood gates to all social media and other resource-intensive Web-based, community platforms. There is only so much a hospital or organization can support given the current infrastructure,” according to Bobby Rettew on his Web site.
Edited by
Braden Becker
