EarthBend Distribution Healthcare Solutions
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IT spending has changed drastically as a result of COVID-19, putting the onus on leaders to explore new ways to ensure care continuity with limited funds and staff resources. Despite the challenges created by the pandemic, IT teams must be agile to ensure healthcare professionals remain properly equipped to see patients and deliver care in the current environment. Proactive efforts that may likely be considered include infrastructure assessments, software and hardware management lifecycle analyses and managed services to ensure more efficient operations. A massive shift to remote work is also likely to continue.
International Data Corporation (IDC) currently forecasts that IT spending in the healthcare and telecommunications segments will grow slightly as providers respond to new demands presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. The right distribution partner can empower resellers to achieve success in the healthcare market.
EarthBend Distribution offers an expansive technology solution portfolio, nationally competitive pricing and friendly, reliable value-added services and support from its expert staff.
How EarthBend Distribution Can Help
EarthBend Distribution has partnered with market-leading vendors to deliver best-in-class technology solutions for healthcare providers across a broad array of product categories, including:
- Anti-Virus Software & Content Filtering Solutions: The healthcare sector has been the target of a number of high profile hacking and phishing attacks. Confidential information leaks, like patient data, or interruptions to a hospital’s IT infrastructure can disrupt workflows and even create health risks. Anti-virus and content filtering solutions help healthcare providers to ensure a secure data environment.
- Cabling Infrastructure: Cabling is the backbone on which IT networks function. In a healthcare network, performance problems can actually prove life threatening. Hospitals and other healthcare-related facilities must implement a high-performance structured cabling system to meet their current and future network requirements.
- Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS): In today’s world, many healthcare providers operate across a large distributed network of hospitals, physician practices, ambulatory centers, diagnostic centers, etc. A cloud-based contact center can enable a single, consistent, and high-quality experience across all facilities and locations, while also helping healthcare providers to reduce operational costs.
- Cordless/Wireless Communications: Wireless solutions, like cordless phones and radios, provide a powerful tool for team members to improve communication and increase security throughout a hospital environment and other medical facilities.
- Firewalls: Firewalls are the first line of defense for every healthcare network and can protect electronic health records (EHRs) and protected health information (PHI) from malware and other cyber attacks.
- Interactive Voice Response: Interactive Voice Response (IVR) is an automated telephony system that interacts with callers, gathers information and routes calls to the appropriate recipient. Modern, cloud-based IVR technology can help healthcare providers to gain an edge over the competition, maintain HIPAA compliance and provide an exceptional customer experience.
- Internet/Bandwidth Management: The healthcare sector is experiencing explosive growth in bandwidth demand, forcing networks to work at higher-than-ever speeds to deliver services that ensure patient safety. Adopting and implementing internet/bandwidth management strategies and technologies is essential to improving the performance of hospital networks.
- Paging Equipment (Analog & IP): Hospitals, physician offices and clinics face a significant challenge of needing to communicate across multiple departments, buildings and geographical locations to keep their day-to-day operations up and running. Paging solutions can serve to streamline communication in healthcare facilities and create a more welcoming environment for patients.
- Power Protection & Backup: An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system can provide backup power that enables devices to stay connected even during a power disturbance or outage. Just as important, they also provide “clean” power, taking care of any power surges, jitter, etc. that can damage sensitive medical devices and other technology equipment. Ensuring continuous power and connectivity are crucial elements for healthcare providers, both for patient care and administrative operations.
- Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS): Unified Communications as a Service, otherwise known as UCaaS, is a suite of applications that can allow healthcare organizations to communicate via IP and unify their communications on a single platform. A UCaaS solution can provide many advantages, including enhanced communication capabilities between hospitals and doctor offices, increased operational efficiencies, cost savings and reductions in travel.
- Video Surveillance: In hospitals and other healthcare environments, video surveillance can be a highly effective tool for improving security, protecting assets, mitigating liability and enhancing overall staff and patient safety.
- Wired and Wireless Networks: Hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities face exploding demand for Wi-Fi connectivity, whether to meet the needs of physicians with smartphones or to connect an ever-increasing array of medical devices that are networked over Wi-Fi to provide real time monitoring, precise locating and support patient centered workflows.
EarthBend Distribution is proud to offer healthcare technology solutions from market-leading manufacturers. For the complete EarthBend Distribution product portfolio, please visit our line card page.