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The Role of Wide Area Network Optimization in the
Federal Healthcare Environment
Executive Summary:
The quality of IT services on which federal health service providers
depend directly impacts a broad cross section of Americans. Military
service members and their families, as well as qualified veterans,
make up a significant proportion of federal health care patients, and
the realities of the military and veteran patient population illustrate
the challenges faced by federal health care and services providers.
Military and veteran health care serves millions of patients, dispersed
around the globe and around the United States and its territories.
This large, distributed community also has a diverse set of medical
service needs, ranging from pre-natal care to battlefield shock-trauma
to aging care.
In this environment, getting the right information to the right people,
at the right time, and at the right place can not only save taxpayer
funds and step up the quality of care for federal patients, but also
spell the difference between life and death. However, achieving the
high levels of IT performance and interconnectivity necessary to
effectively support federal health care and services is complicated.
One of the infrastructure elements that links care providers,
administrators, and patients across the federal healthcare services
community are: wide area networks (WANs).
To explore the key considerations that should be addressed by
officials tasked with harnessing technology to improve federal health
care and services, the editors of BizTechReports.Com met with subject
matter experts at San Francisco-based Riverbed Technology to gather
key insights into emerging trends and best practices for WAN
optimization within the federal healthcare community.
Federal Healthcare Environment
Executive Summary:
The quality of IT services on which federal health service providers
depend directly impacts a broad cross section of Americans. Military
service members and their families, as well as qualified veterans,
make up a significant proportion of federal health care patients, and
the realities of the military and veteran patient population illustrate
the challenges faced by federal health care and services providers.
Military and veteran health care serves millions of patients, dispersed
around the globe and around the United States and its territories.
This large, distributed community also has a diverse set of medical
service needs, ranging from pre-natal care to battlefield shock-trauma
to aging care.
In this environment, getting the right information to the right people,
at the right time, and at the right place can not only save taxpayer
funds and step up the quality of care for federal patients, but also
spell the difference between life and death. However, achieving the
high levels of IT performance and interconnectivity necessary to
effectively support federal health care and services is complicated.
One of the infrastructure elements that links care providers,
administrators, and patients across the federal healthcare services
community are: wide area networks (WANs).
To explore the key considerations that should be addressed by
officials tasked with harnessing technology to improve federal health
care and services, the editors of BizTechReports.Com met with subject
matter experts at San Francisco-based Riverbed Technology to gather
key insights into emerging trends and best practices for WAN
optimization within the federal healthcare community.
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