Whether it concerns digital patient files, workflow management, or to best meet the requirements mandated by the recent healthcare reforms, hospitals, clinics and health insurance providers, all depend on information technology. Yet, despite this undeniable fact, most healthcare organizations are not exploiting the great potential of modern information technology to the fullest. At the same time, healthcare managers are facing increasing costs and decreasing reimbursement rates. Two primary features of centralized and standardized IT services are server-based computing and desktop virtualization with thin clients. This lean approach allows employees to always access the same desktop: in the company headquarters, in branch offices or even in a home office. With solutions developed by IGEL, work sessions can even be transferred from one workstation to another without having to restart the applications each time. But that’s not all. IGEL thin clients can cut power consumption by up to 51%, save money and help protect the environment through less use of materials, less transport and less electronic waste (e-waste).
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Customer Stories - Healthcare Elizabeth Finn (UK)
Elizabeth Finn right at home with IGEL thin clients.
Through the generosity of its donors and supporters, Elizabeth Finn Care helps people of all ages who struggle to cope with a life in poverty whether due to long term physical or mental illness, family breakdown, bereavement, redundancy or inadequate pensions.
The charity works to provide practical and effective solutions after listening carefully to each individual’s particular circumstances. This can include providing a weekly allowance to deal with the worry of not being able to pay the bills or buy fresh food through to providing special grants to replace essential household equipment or for building repairs.
Elizabeth Finn Care also provides care and individual attention through contact with its well-trained, understanding and experienced caseworkers and volunteer visitors. In addition, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elizabeth Finn Care, Elizabeth Finn Homes Ltd, operates a group of 10 award winning care homes in England and 10 almshouse cottages near Birmingham.
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Mencap (UK)
Mencap finds IGEL thin clients more giving.
Mencap is the UK’s leading learning disability charity working with
people with a learning disability and their families and carers. As an
individual membership organisation, with a local network of more than
800 affi liated groups, Mencap fights for equal rights, campaigns for
greater opportunities and challenges attitudes and prejudice whilst
providing advice and support to meet people’s needs throughout their
lives.
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De Noorderbrug (Netherlands)
IGEL thin clients provide De Noorderbrug with care-free IT.
Founded in 1970, De Noorderbrug offers personal assistance and care to
approximately 1,400 persons who have a physical handicap, suffer
limitations from brain damage or are deaf or hard of hearing. Care
provision ranges from ad-hoc care to providing living facilities.
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Gesundheit Nordhessen Holding (Germany)
The clever way to handle healthcare reform.
A functional and reliable IT infrastructure is very important, especially in the healthcare sector, because cost-conscious patient care, workflow management and administration can be ensured only through modern data processing technology. At the same time, the effects of the healthcare reform are one reason hospitals and healthcare providers are facing tight budgets. These considerations were vital when Gesundheit Nordhessen Holding AG decided to migrate to server-based computing architectures with Thin Clients.
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BKK futur (Germany)
Based in Krefeld, Niederrhein, BKK futur services more than 110,000 policy holders.
After a merger with Stuttgart-based SEL BKK, BKK futur had to quickly and efficiently merge two diverse IT environments. BKK futur had a client-server network with PC workstations, while SEL BKK had adopted a server-based computing architecture.
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Munich Schwabing Hospital (Germany)
The Right Therapy from IGEL improves Health of Hospital IT.
Continuous modernization of server-based computing architecture ensures lasting cost savings for the Munich Schwabing Hospital, Germany. Munich Schwabing Hospital is the largest hospital in the Bavarian capital. The unique atmosphere of the academic teaching hospital with 26 divisions and over 1,200 beds combines the traditional with the modern, offering patients the best possible care enabled, in part, by the latest thin client technology from IGEL.
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DIAKO Ev. Diakoniekrankenhaus (Germany)
Serviced IT infrastructure in DIAKO.
The DIAKO Ev. Diakoniekrankenhaus GmbH is unifying its IT infrastructure. Server-based computing and thin clients of local hero IGEL Technology increase availability and data security with lower aggregate costs.
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Psychiatrisches Zentrum Nordbaden (Germany)
German Psychiatric Center Nordbaden has simplified its IT administration using Server Based Computing and Thin Clients from IGEL Technology.
The Psychiatrisches Zentrum Nordbaden (PZN) is one of Germany’s most modern specialist psychiatric hospitals. With six separate departments comprising a large number of assessment and treatment units the organization employs a total of 1,500 people. Home services and holistic therapies tailored to the patients needs, involving family members wherever possible, minimise treatment times. To support this modern approach, the centre’s information technology has recently been re-designed for high efficiency.
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SANA (Germany)
More flexibility in hospital operations.
Rapid growth at the SANA-Klinikum Remscheid validates the timely introduction of a thin client architecture. Since its integration into the 'SANAVerbund' medical association at the beginning of 2001, Sana-Klinikum Remscheid has been pursuing ambitious goals. The vision of a 'hospital of the future' was developed to meet new challenges in healthcare and provide top quality medical services, while achieving financial success. The technical basis for this transformation is an organization-wide thin client architecture initiated in the year 2000.
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BKK ZF & Partner (Germany)
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company health insurance fund, BKK ZF & Partner, emphasises Thin
Clients to support insured persons for efficient administration and
processing all instances.
The company health insurance fund, ZF & Partner, can look back at a
long tradition. The company health insurance for social security of
employees came into being three years after establishing the ZF
Friedrichshafen AG, which today ranks among the leading automobile
manufacturer groups for motor power and vehicle engineering. At the
time of establishing the company, the health insurance had 324 members.
From this small beginning developed a strong insurance company. Today,
the company health insurance fund, ZF & Partner, includes over
62,500 insured persons. To offer all members highly qualified services,
it needs a corresponding extended and sophisticated IT infrastructure.
Employees need access to all relevant data from over 110 workstations
at 13 locations.
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BKK Hoechst (Germany)
BKK Hoechst strengthens the defensive power of its IT environment:
server-based computing with IGEL Thin Clients optimizes administration
and operational capabilities.
The success story of BKK began in 1890. Hoechst AG was established as a social service to protect workers in case they became ill. Of the initial 2,160 members, membership of the Hoechst AG has grown to over 162,000. BKK Hoechst is a flexible and customer oriented insurance company with a reputable fiscal policy. With that in mind, the IT-management of the BKK tries to remain cost efficient, adding value to the business. Since 2002, BKK has gradually migrated to a server-based computing (SBC) environment in order to reduce overall IT costs.
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Central Hospital Sankt-Jürgen-Straße Bremen (Germany)
Thin Clients With Fiber Optics And Chip Card Reader.
Bremen's Central Hospital Sankt-Jürgen-Straße is the city's largest hospital and offers comprehensive medical, nursing and psychosocial care in all medical areas. Around 400 doctors and 1400 nursing staff care for around 42,500 inpatients and 60,000 outpatients. The hospital with its 1166 beds has a spacious and decentralized layout and covers about 240,000m2. Because of the large number of clinics and institutes a complex IT infrastructure is required.
