Netsmart to Build Private Cloud Solutions for Health and Human Services Providers

VCE Company LLC, in converged infrastructure systems, announced that Netsmart Technologies, Inc. is using VCE converged infrastructure for its Plexus Cloud Hosting Services, used by health and human service provider organizations throughout the US for the coordinated, integrated delivery of critical services to millions of people each day.

Netsmart is building out its private cloud infrastructure on VCE Vblock Systems, which provide the IT foundation for transformative data center agility, simplicity and economics.

Netsmart is a provider of clinical and business software and services for health and human services organizations nationwide. More than 23,000 client organizations, including 450,000 care providers and more than 40 state systems, use Netsmart solutions to help improve the quality of life for more than 25 million people each day.

VCE converged infrastructure delivers optimized, dynamic pools of IT resources that enable the performance, scalability and uptime necessary for Netsmart client organizations to manage and share authorized personal health information. Netsmart clients provide coordinated treatment, care and services in mental health, addiction services, public health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and child and family services.

The Vblock System-based private cloud solution also supports Netsmart’s coordinated care solutions, which enable secure data exchange across all modalities of care, including primary care providers and hospitals.

Vblock Systems are the pre-integrated, pre-tested and pre-validated converged infrastructures consisting of network, compute, storage and virtualization technologies for enterprises and service providers worldwide. Through the VCE experience, Vblock Systems are delivered and supported as a single product, with component-level updates, ongoing lifecycle management and unified, single-call support across all infrastructure components.

“With rapid convergence and integration of care and services, our clients require ‘healthcare strength’ hosting services and security,” said Mike Valentine, CEO, Netsmart. “VCE helps us provide scalable, high-quality hosting infrastructure to give our clients of all sizes and types the agility and flexibility needed to deliver a wide range of integrated services across multiple environments.“

“Netsmart is at the forefront of the rapidly changing healthcare landscape, helping the industry coordinate care across many disciplines with the ultimate end goal of delivering better patient outcomes,” said Frank Hauck, president, VCE. “With VCE Vblock Systems, we are helping to enable innovation and delivery of new services, in a secure manner, for the Netsmart customer base.“