Desktop Virtualisation as a Solution

IT Challenges in the Healthcare Sector

Two case studies show how virtualization reduces the TCO while meeting the high requirements in the healthcare sector.

After heavily investing in the overhaul of their server infrastructures, IT divisions are now contemplating client environments: how to optimize a system's highly distributed architecture to control the costs it generates — particularly operating costs — without affecting the level of service provided to users and clients? An issue that is all the more important in the healthcare sector, which is impacted by a number of special factors:

A public service mission that puts pressure on some healthcare facilities to provide continuous service (24 x 7). Over and above new computer projects that the healthcare facilities could implement, IT divisions have to control operating costs, which represent up to 90 % of their annual IT expenditure, excluding IT staff salaries. Demanding regulations for dematerialized processes like data security and confidentiality, archiving, and developing programs . In this context, some healthcare facilities assess the opportunity for an architectural overhaul based on desktop virtualization.

To gain a concrete understanding of the underlying issues of PC virtualization, this white paper examines two facilities which chose to centralize parts of their computer systems on secure servers: the STELL hospital in Rueil-Malmaison (France) and the Nij Smellinghe hospital in Drachten (the Netherlands).

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