Healthcare & Life Sciences

There's been a lot of focus in healthcare on the need to digitize patient information using EMR so that healthcare providers can share information and better coordinate patient care.  Digitizing patient info is the first step, making sure that hospital medical professionals have it when they are diagnosing and treating is patients is the next step.

Today, Dell is introducing a virtual desktop solution for healthcare that simplifies info access for hospital medical professionals and management for IT and helps improve info security, staff productivity and care quality.  Early adopter Silver Cross Hospital has been able to reduce application updates to their 200 desktops from 80 hours to 20 minutes with MCC.  Their medical professionals are also more productive.  MCC has helped their medical professionals reclaim nearly 20,000 hours for patient care this year alone.  

Dell continues to bridge the digital divide at healthcare's frontline to help the medical community harness the power of information for better patient care.

Listen to Jamie Coffin, vice president and general manager of Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences, describe MCC's value to hospitals and let us know how we can continue to improve the value of IT for medical professionals.

Yesterday, Michael Dell delivered a keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, sharing his view of the Efficient Enterprise (see Greg White's post for a summary of it, and check out his presentation here on SlideShare.)

After OpenWorld, Michael sat down with Don Clark from the Wall Street Journal for Churchill Club discussion. I started following some of the reaction at #Churchill tweets last night. Since then that chat's been has been the source of discussion on some sites like Gizmodo, GigaOM and others. I thought it might be of interest to some Direct2Dell readers.  

Below is the full video of the discussion. Obviously, Michael covers a wide range of topics in the 1+ hour discussion (besides netbooks and Windows 7, he talks services, virtualization, cloud computing, smartphones and more). If you don't want to spend time watching the whole thing, Eric Savitz provided a good re-cap of over at Tech Trader Daily.

Update: We've added a few photos from the Churchill Club on our Flickr page.

Anyone paying attention to the current state of politics in the United States knows that healthcare reform is driving much of the discussion in Washington. No question it's a hugely complex issue that can be improved on a number of fronts. One area where our teams think much progress can be made is in the use of electronic medical records.

Right now, less than 10 percent of U.S. physicians have fully-functional EMR systems in place. The reason that's still a reality is that such systems have been costly and very complex to set up. With the solution we're introducing in the United States today, we're working to change that.

Dell's Affiliated Physician EMR Solution is designed for hospitals that want to implement EMR for their affiliated physicians that is compatible with their own information systems and for physicians  and enterprise-quality EMR support for their small practices. It enables hospitals and practices that share patients to share patient information electronically.

Our teams worked to create a modular, enterprise-class EMR solution that sponsor hospitals can configure to meet the needs of their affiliated physician community. It includes application hosting by the hospital, the software provider or Perot Systems and Health Information Exchange management by the hospital or Perot Systems. It also includes everything necessary to promote the solution to physicians.

What benefits does automating medical records mean to you as an individual? More automation will translate into lower costs and will provide real-time access to your information to simplify registration, scheduling and billing when medical issues do arise.

If you want to learn more about it, watch this vlog from Jamie Coffin, head of our healthcare team, where he describes the new solution. Also, check out Dell.com/EMR for more details.