Hewlett-Packard Australia announced it has signed a
technology services agreement to design, build and maintain a portion of the
information, communication and technology (ICT) systems for the South Australia
Government’s next-generation digital hospital in Adelaide, Australia.
The new Royal Adelaide Hospital a 800-bed hospital is a
public-private collaborative project that will become the benchmark for
Australia’s new medical institutions. In addition to enabling clinical staff to
deliver better patient care, the new hospital is expected to cost the state
government less to run in terms of nonclinical support services, compared with
the hospital that it will replace.
The new Royal Adelaide Hospital is the first facility to
use version 2.0 of the HP Digital Hospital Solution as its technology
foundation. Managed by HP, this cohesive set of technologies and services
replaces single-function systems with a comprehensive solution that aligns
technology with operational and patient priorities.
HP will integrate the new Royal Adelaide’s in-building
systems with the South Australia Government’s enterprise-level health patient
admission and medical records applications to create a pervasive, real-time
information environment.
The solution automates clinical and facilities management
workflows to improve care and efficiency and deliver better outcomes for
patients.
HP will provide an integrated solution built on HP Converged Infrastructure to
provide high availability by using virtualized, clustered and dual-redundant
systems. The integrated solution will link the South Australia Government’s
enterprise systems with critical hospital systems including:
Building engineering systems, such as building automation
and security systems, providing critical alerts to clinical staff;
Automatically Guided Vehicle (AGV) System, providing more
efficient and timely notifications to clinical and facilities management staff;
Communications Systems, such as the IP PABX, which will
support devices including smartphones and tablets, improving staff
responsiveness and efficiency; and
Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS), used for patient and
equipment tracking, providing improved medical equipment utilization, while
ensuring patients are locatable by staff at any time for booked procedures or
to ensure their safety.
Medical systems including the nurse call system, picture
archiving and communication system, and sophisticated bedside terminals also
will be integrated. Performance and fault monitoring will be provided from an
HP Best Shore location.
HP
will offer Enterprise Service Management to provide best-practice ICT
service-desk operations. HP Application Management Services will maintain the
production application environment and provide ITIL-based change and release
management services for an onsite integrated test environment. This will be
used by all IT providers for preproduction application testing.
With the cost of healthcare and patient numbers on the
rise worldwide, South Australia is getting ahead of the dire need for better
care delivered more efficiently to keep up with the growing demand from its
citizens,” said Alan Bennett, vice president, Enterprise Services, HP South
Pacific.
HP is uniquely qualified to leverage technology across
markets, improving operational efficiency and enabling care coordination to
help the new Royal Adelaide Hospital improve patient outcomes and be a leader
in healthcare information technology innovation,” Bennett added.
HP Converged Infrastructure is a key component of an
Instant-On Enteprise. In a world of continuous connectivity, the Instant-On
Enterprise embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers,
employees, partners and citizens with everything they need, instantly.
Recently, HP announced HP
VirtualSystem for VMware, a highly optimized, turnkey solution that gives
organizations a virtualized infrastructure that speeds implementation and
provides a foundation for cloud computing.
As virtualization has gained adoption, multitier network
architectures, virtual sprawl, inflexible storage, unpredictable workloads and
security concerns have increased complexity and limited broad deployment.
By Telecomlead.com Team
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