Healthcare is a critical sector that needs to be running optimally at all times to ensure the protection and functionality of life-saving services. In the modern age, it’s integral for healthcare organizations to ensure that their infrastructure can keep up with the massive amount of confidential data and processing that needs to be done daily. In this blog article, we explore the idea of healthcare IT and the use of modern IT infrastructure to streamline healthcare practices on a global scale. We also look at the advanced infrastructure solutions provided by Sangfor and their use in real-world healthcare organizations. First, let’s try to explore the need for better IT infrastructure in the healthcare industry.
The Use of Modern IT Infrastructure in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations process and store large amounts of data and need to have the capacity for faster retrieval and access while still maintaining a strong cybersecurity posture. Healthcare IT is essentially the collection of technological tools and software that ensure that medical personnel can easily share, access, and organize patient data in a productive and streamlined manner. Healthcare is the one sector that is required to keep optimizing its infrastructure to keep up with modern medical technology and the use of innovative equipment.
Following massive digital transformation in the sector, most hospitals and healthcare providers now rely almost fully on quick and effective IT infrastructure for critical services. This includes making appointments, diagnosing accurately, allocating medication, accessing patient records, and even operating certain medical machines. Some of the key issues with IT infrastructure that healthcare providers run into include:
- Slow access to patient files
- Slow retrieval of CT or MRI scans
- Lack of security for databases
- The risk of downtime due to IT failures
- Lack of communication across different departments
Moreover, the healthcare sector also faces the constant threat of cyber-attacks. The overwhelmed healthcare industry has become a lucrative target for hackers looking to leverage patient data in ransomware attacks. This is because healthcare providers offer critical services that put them under more pressure to resume operations or protect patient confidentiality – making them more likely to yield to a ransom demand. This can be a costly and devastating blow for any organization. In 2023, the healthcare industry reported data breaches costing an average of US$ 10.93 million per breach.
Cybersecurity also falls under the umbrella of effective healthcare IT as a crucial element in a functional infrastructure. This is why organizations in the sector need to be fully prepared with the right tools to secure and optimize operations. Sangfor is proud to have a range of healthcare IT solutions that will elevate and fortify these organizations in a seamless, affordable, and simplified way. Let’s take a look at some of the success stories that healthcare providers have using Sangfor to get a better understanding.
Healthcare IT Success Stories with Sangfor
Sangfor has been providing advanced and innovative IT infrastructure solutions for healthcare organizations for years. To prove the effectiveness of these products, we’ll go over some of the many success stories from satisfied Sangfor clients in the healthcare industry:
The Medical City South Luzon
The Medical City South Luzon case study tells the story of the largest healthcare network in the Philippines. Located in Santa Rosa, Laguna, the organization serves as TMC’s gateway to Southern Luzon - covering the provinces of Laguna, Batangas, and Cavite. Initially, the company had issues with flexibility, streamlining operations, and legacy infrastructure. These would ultimately slow down processing and hinder the consistency and safety of services offered.
Sangfor’s Solution: Sangfor proposed the use of its Hyper-Converged Infrastructure solution to provide a unified platform for the entire facility. This helped to smooth out administrative operations and ensured that results would be received quickly and consistently – with a data backup in place as well for added security. Sangfor also made use of its Virtual Data Center platform to provide complete visibility and control of the system with effortless monitoring and detection capabilities – allowing Medical City South Luzon to navigate its infrastructure and locate issues faster and with fewer complications.
Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care Indonesia
Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care Indonesia is a private healthcare provider in Indonesia that falls under the Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care Group (RSDH). The organization found itself in need of an integrated solution to run its three hospitals more effectively – allowing them to monitor internet usage and migrate seamlessly. The company also required a reliable IT infrastructure with high availability that could mitigate the risk of downtime.
Sangfor’s Solution: Sangfor suggested the use of its Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) to ensure consistent operations with high availability and a lower risk of downtime. Additionally, Sangfor proposed the use of its Internet Access Gateway (IAG) platform to secure and monitor Internet usage – ultimately improving the company’s bandwidth visibility and prioritizing critical applications within the network. Sangfor products are inherently easy to transition to and this ensured that the migration process was effortless for the organization as well.
ASST Sette Laghi
The ASST Sette Laghi is a healthcare facilitator and regulator of hospitals, emergency centers, training, and research centers in Lombardy, Italy. The organization found itself facing operational challenges with the high amount of user activity - risking blockages and disruptions to the entire system.
Sangfor’s Solution: Sangfor proposed the use of the aDesk Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solution to streamline operations and ensure a flexible, interchangeable, and high-performance architecture.
Global Care Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
The Global Care Hospital is a private medical institution based in Abu Dhabi in the UAE. With multi-shift management, the hospital was looking for an improved IT infrastructure that would ensure consistent and secure access for staff – whether remote or on-premises.
Sangfor’s Solution: Sangfor put forward its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solution to ensure that both internal and remote users could access the system from a central station. The organization was mostly impressed with the simplicity of the platform and how easy it was to use and maintain.
Wanon Niwat Hospital
The Wanon Niwat Hospital is located in the Sakon Nakhon Province of Thailand and is a community hospital overseen by the province’s Public Health Office. The organization had to deal with a massive influx of patients and required a more scalable and simplified IT infrastructure. The hospital also struggled with performance issues and slow response times from its old system.
Sangfor’s Solution: The hospital made use of Sangfor’s Hyper-Converged Infrastructure platform to enhance the system’s performance which resulted in smoother operations – even during peak times. The HCI solution also offered simplified and centralized management while being fully scalable and having built-in data backup features. Sangfor further added robust protection with its Endpoint Secure platform which provided consistent protection from cyber threats.
All these examples of this effective and resilient product range should inspire healthcare organizations to invest in the healthcare IT solutions that are readily available with Sangfor. Let’s go into further detail about these platforms and products that can fully streamline and secure the healthcare industry forever.
Sangfor’s Healthcare IT Toolkit
Sangfor is committed to innovative products that push boundaries and make operations simpler, safer, and more affordable. These are some of the advanced solutions that Sangfor has to offer healthcare organizations that are looking to optimize their IT infrastructure and stay ahead:
Sangfor’s Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
The Sangfor Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) is a unified solution that virtualizes and integrates data center computing, storage, networking, and security into one software stack. While traditional software only has a limited number of capabilities, the Sangfor HCI platform uses its intuitive design to ensure ease of management, optimal scalability, and seamless integration across various cloud environments. Its flexibility and ability to adapt make it ideal for the healthcare sector where processing reliability is crucial. The Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is also becoming a popular VMware replacement with its consolidated approach to efficiency and performance that is more cost-effective and versatile.
Sangfor’s Network Secure - Next Generation Firewall
An effective firewall ensures that organizations can defend themselves against internal and external cyber threats. The Sangfor Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) combines AI Technology, Cloud Threat Intelligence, NG-WAF, IoT Security, and SoC Lite to filter out threats and secure your network. As the world’s 1st AI-enabled NGFW with intelligent detection, the platform can seamlessly eliminate over 99% of external threats at the network perimeter.
Sangfor Endpoint Secure
The Sangfor Endpoint Secure platform is a modern Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) that combines antivirus, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and endpoint management capabilities into a single solution. The solution can easily replace antivirus software through its use of advanced AI technologies to accurately detect and respond to cyber threats in real-time. Whether your organization needs on-premises management, cloud management, or hybrid solutions, Sangfor Endpoint Secure is also entirely scalable to meet your business needs.
Sangfor’s Internet Access Gateway
Sangfor’s Internet Access Gateway provides full control over user access and can identify and analyze internet access behavior in real-time to provide comprehensive protection and monitoring – allowing you to gain full visibility and observe user behavior. The platform provides unified and network-wide management of all clients and uses Proxy Avoidance Protection and Intelligent Traffic Management to monitor any suspicious activity.
Sangfor’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
The Sangfor aDesk is a one-stop Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution that helps your organization manage and maintain increasing IT operations. With self-developed transmission protocols and GPU technology that collaborates with Nvidia, the platform guarantees a seamless desktop experience that will boost user productivity while ensuring end-to-end security – providing a streamlined and adaptive experience that is unified, centralized, and simplified.
Sangfor is a trusted name in IT infrastructure – with innovative technology that spans from cloud architecture to cybersecurity. To maintain efficient and effective processing power for healthcare organizations, IT infrastructure needs to be prioritized – and Sangfor is here to provide those crucial tools. Contact Sangfor today for information on enhancing cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity or visit www.sangfor.com to learn more.
