The automation of clinical, administrative, and financial processes within the healthcare industry can provide cost and operational benefits, and can greatly enhance the quality of patient care. Automated systems, such as electronic medical records (EMR) and computerized physician order entry (CPOE), can offer the benefits of clinical workflow optimization, reduced medical errors, and evidence-based medicine.

By optimizing the delivery, management, and security of applications, application delivery solutions from Citrix accelerate and simplify the organization’s transition to clinical automation. This enables healthcare organizations to reap the benefits, while easing the pain of integrating the new systems into the existing clinical workflow and infrastructure. Citrix solutions include numerous features that facilitate this transition; for example, single sign-on capability that helps increase user acceptance of clinical modernization, by simplifying clinician access to medical applications.

Citrix application delivery infrastructure helps healthcare organizations decrease the time and cost of protecting and delivering vital medical and patient information. This dynamic infrastructure unifies application management, optimization, security, and delivery technologies into an end-to-end solution that decreases the time and cost of implementing new clinical automation systems. In this way, Citrix solutions enable healthcare providers to create an environment that delivers applications on demand, conveniently and securely, for improved patient care.

With Citrix’s solution, IT can

• Accelerate Application Implementation and Delivery – Citrix XenApp makes it easy to give all users across the organization fast, simple, and secure access to medical applications. With its centralized delivery model, XenApp enables IT to install and deliver applications much faster than when IT installs and configures the applications on each user device. With Citrix XenApp, applications can go from approval to fully implemented and delivered to users in a matter of hours.  Citrix Password Manager increases user acceptance of clinical modernization by simplifying clinician access to medical applications.  

• Optimize Application Performance – Citrix NetScaler application delivery solutions accelerate the performance of physician portals, hospital Web sites, and Web applications.   

• Effectively Manage Application Performance – Citrix EdgeSight improves clinician satisfaction by delivering a comprehensive management solution that enables IT managers to quickly identify and resolve end-user performance issues.

“With the tens of thousands of dollars we’ve saved by using Citrix solutions, we have been able to fund best practices for our organization. Citrix has enabled us to shift money from running IT to improving our hospital.”
Ron Crall, CIO, St. Joseph Healthcare

More Customer Stories:

• St. Joseph's Hospital Case Study
• Androscoggin Case Study

Application Solutions:

• Create Medical and Legal Documents Using Speech Recognition Software
• Physician Access to Information at the Point of Care

For more information about Citrix’s solutions for IT efficiency, please visit the Business Solutions: IT Efficiency section of our Web site.