HP Supports Patient Care at Runnymede Healthcare Centre

Hewlett-Packard Development Company
announced that Runnymede Healthcare Centre has chosen HP Converged
Infrastructure to support patient care as well as reduce IT administration time
and costs.

Toronto-based Runnymede, which provides specialized medical,
therapeutic and outpatient services to people affected by long-term chronic
conditions, was subjected to network downtime with an outdated
data infrastructure. This resulted in delays when hospital staff accessed
applications supporting patient care and in unreliable communication between
staff and patients.

Since implementing HP LeftHand Storage and HP ProLiant Servers at
its new facility, Runnymede no longer experiences data center downtime, which
has improved IT staff productivity. In addition, the hospital
can fulfill its strategic vision of implementing an electronic patient record.

"The time we spent
maintaining and repairing our old data infrastructure was eating into the time
we needed to focus on applications required by clinical staff to improve
patient care," said Angela Copeland, chief information officer and
privacy officer, Runnymede Healthcare Centre. "With HP Converged Infrastructure solutions, we’re now able to focus on
clinical applications since the only attention our data infrastructure requires
is the short time it takes to add capacity."

LeftHand Storage, part of the HP Converged Storage portfolio, fuses
scale-out storage software with ProLiant server hardware. This physical and
virtual IT solution ensures HA to reduce the risk of downtime. Business
continuity is ensured by replicating data across a cluster of storage nodes. This
provides continuous data availability in the event of an outage.

LeftHand Storage deployed at Runnymede applies this
approach to eliminate single points of failure across the storage area network,
reducing risk without driving up costs. It also reduces costs
by allowing Runnymede to purchase storage based on its current needs, with the
flexibility to add more capacity and performance as needed without disruptions.

In addition to Converged Storage, the healthcare provider chose ProLiant rack-mount servers as part of its Converged Infrastructure.
These physical HP servers are virtualized with VMware vSphere to increase IT
flexibility to scale up as hospital requirements expand.

"Runnymede struggled with
an unstable IT environment that hampered access to applications that aid in
patient care, which is the lifeblood for healthcare providers," said
Jeff Wilson, national sales manager, Storage, HP Canada. "Now with reliable access to data, staff can
concentrate on providing the best possible care with confidence that the
Centre’s data needs will scale with HP Converged Infrastructure."

Converged Infrastructure is a core component of an Instant-On Enterprise. The Instant-On Enterprise embeds technology to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens.