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Customer Case Study

Southern Illinois Healthcare

standardizes on Cisco Unified Data

Center environment.

Challenge

As a not-for-profit healthcare system, Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) is dedicated to

promoting the health and well-being of people throughout the region. Overseeing three

hospitals serving 16 counties in southern Illinois, SIH provides patients with expertise,

compassion, and advanced care that is tailored to the needs of rural communities.

Founded more than 135 years ago, SIH has a long history of embracing technology

to provide patients with quality care. More recently, a robust implementation of health

information technology is further enhancing the healthcare provider’s commitment to

outstanding patient care by adding efficiencies and improving accuracy of workflows

within and across hospitals and clinics.

More advanced electronic applications help administrators quickly and accurately manage

scheduled appointments, while physicians and nurses can securely pull, share, or amend

patients’ electronic records. At the same time, clinicians can use applications to check drug

interactions, streamline laboratory paperwork, and manage other essential activities.

Over the years, SIH built a strong technology foundation in its facilities. Unfortunately, the

gradual additions of new applications and hardware resulted in a highly varied infrastructure

with technology from numerous vendors. “Technology management was becoming

overwhelming,” says Dave Holland, vice president and CIO at SIH. “Looking forward, we

knew we wanted to build an enterprise-ready environment supported by a single vendor.

Our aim was to gain management efficiencies and ensure smooth service delivery for

everyone throughout the organization.”

Hospitals Upgrade Data Center to Deliver

New Medical Applications

• Customer Name: Southern Illinois

Healthcare

• Industry: Healthcare

• Location: Southern Illinois

• Number of Employees: 3000

Challenge

• Improve data center performance

• Standardize on single data center

vendor to streamline infrastructure

and management

• Reduce data center resources,

including support, space, power,

and cooling

Solution

• Transitioned data center to

Cisco UCS Blade Servers and

Cisco Unified Fabric for greater

performance and flexibility with

integrated management

Results

• Saved over $200,000 in capital

expenditures due to data center

efficiencies

• Streamlined infrastructure and

management

• Reduced data center footprint by

20 percent

Technology / Application Partner

• Medical Information Technology, Inc.

Executive Summary

Summary of content (4 pages)

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Customer Case Study Hospitals Upgrade Data Center to Deliver New Medical Applications Executive Summary • Customer Name: Southern Illinois Healthcare • Industry: Healthcare • Location: Southern Illinois • Number of Employees: 3000 Challenge • Improve data center performance • Standardize on single data center vendor to streamline infrastructure and management Southern Illinois Healthcare standardizes on Cisco Unified Data Center environment.
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“We’re performing better and running much more efficiently in a more compact data center. After moving to Cisco UCS, we eliminated planned expansions in power and cooling, saving us more than $200,000 in capital expenditures.” — David Holland Vice President and CIO Southern Illinois Healthcare SIH first decided on application vendors, including MEDITECH for clinical healthcare applications, a Lawson enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, and NextGen systems for medical practice automation.
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Many of the core systems for SIH use MEDITECH applications. From registration and patient care systems to medical records and radiology services, MEDITECH provides comprehensive and integrated electronic health records (EHR) that keep SIH running smoothly. The integrated Cisco UCS environment improves performance of MEDITECH applications by delivering information quickly and reliably across network and storage connections.
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Product List Data Center Solutions • Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) For More Information To find out more about Cisco Unified Data Center, please visit: www.cisco.com/go/unifieddatacenter. To find out more about Cisco UCS, please visit: www.cisco.com/go/ucs. To find out more about MEDITECH solutions, please visit: www.meditech.com.