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Dell introduces mobile clinical computing
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Bangalore: Dell has launched a mobile, virtual computing offering for healthcare providers, allowing clinicians single sign-on and session roaming capabilities on any device for applications they're authorized to use within a facility, reports InformationWeek
The Dell Mobile Clinical Computing (MCC) solution allows secure role-based access to applications and data from any computing device within a hospital. The offering is configured around the digital profile of a user, based on the user's role and location. So, nurses and doctors can each access data and applications they're authorized to use, while administrators can access their authorized applications for the same devices.
"MCC saves time of clinicians spend each day as they make their rounds to patient rooms and search out workstations that are equipped with the applications they need to use," said James Coffin, Vice President of Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences.
Instead of hunting down and logging on and off of various computing devices, clinicians can 'roam' and maintain applications sessions on any device within a facility by swiping an ID badge to log back in. Proximity detectors close down the applications 10 seconds after a clinician stops using a device.
Dell's first MCC customer is Silver Cross Hospital, a 300-bed facility in Joliet, Illinois. "The hospital helped Dell with the design. The computing option is likely to play a key role in a new 'patient-centric, bedside model' hospital that Silver Cross will open in early 2012," said David Hillenmeyer, CIO (Chief Information Officer), Silver Cross. The new hospital will have clinicians providing treatments and entering patient data at patients' bedsides.
MCC pricing varies with the size of hospital, configuration and other details. A hosted or private cloud based MCC configuration is also available through Dell Services, formally Perot Systems. While Dell is the latest, it isn't the only vendor selling virtual desktop, single sign-on offerings to healthcare organizations. Other vendors include Sychron and Novell.