The New Network is Healthcare
Juniper Networks new healthcare network is here and it is Simply Connected. It provides healthcare organizations with a resilient and ubiquitous wireless infrastructure with comprehensive security for all types of wireless devices and a simpler network infrastructure to manage.
The Challenge
The proliferation of network-connected mobile end user devices providing access to content-rich applications across all departments of a healthcare organization is a trend that is far from hitting the top of its curve. Attempting to manage and control security on these multiple user devices running a range of operating systems and security protocols increases complexity, introduces more risks, and results in even higher costs for healthcare IT groups.
The new healthcare network requires a comprehensive security solution managed and delivered at the connection level (not by device or physical port), capable of access rights management, remote data wiping, and full enforcement of security policies on any device, anywhere, anytime.
In a world where most doctors, clinicians, and hospital staff, are trending toward using these wireless devices first and their wired devices second, the hospital premises network needs to be ready to support this shift. This doesn’t mean an end to the wired network. Rather, it means that re-balancing the wired and wireless network infrastructures is needed. So how do you evolve your healthcare network to take advantage of new mobile devices and the bandwidth hungry applications that they offer?
The Solution
Juniper believes that the nature of healthcare network access will change from wired to wireless Ethernet over the next several years. This will be driven in large part by the influx of new and highly capable tablets and smart phones which will not have traditional connections. Juniper has developed an approach for the hospital premises network that we call "Simply Connected". It should be:
- Simple for hospital employees to choose and change their mobile devices
- Simple for them to securely access healthcare applications and clinical systems
- Simple for the IT department to provision one policy per user that works on everything
And, the whole network infrastructure should be simpler to manage.
Benefits
Juniper’s solutions help healthcare organizations realize these and other benefits, including:
- Simpler for doctors and clinicians to choose and change wireless end user device of their choice.
- Simpler for them to reliably and quickly gain secure access to healthcare applications, clinical systems and electronic patient records.
- Simpler for healthcare IT departments to provision one policy per user that works on everything.
- A simpler wired and wireless healthcare network infrastructure with reduced operational cost and risk.
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