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A Customer Success

from the Experts in

Business-Critical Continuity™

Background

BayCare Health System operates nine hospitals in the Tampa Bay area.

Like other leading health providers, its doctors and administrators require

access to the latest medical information. An ongoing seven-year project to

convert to electronic medical records, along with industry-wide issues such

as regulatory compliance, patient privacy, digital imaging and growing

clinical reliance on IT, increased BayCare’s demand for computing capacity

and performance.

Case Summary

Location: Tampa, Florida

Products/Services:

•LiebertSeries610500kVAUPSsystems

•LiebertPPCstageonepowerdistributionsystems

•LiebertFDCstagetwopowerdistributionsystems

•LiebertSTS400Ampautomaticstatictransferswitch

•LiebertDSprecisionairconditioningunits

•LiebertSiteScanweb-basedcriticalmonitoringsystem

Critical Needs:Designandimplementanewdatacentertoefficiently

meet current requirements while scaling to support growth.

Results

Increasedavailablespaceandcapacitytohandleexpectedgrowth

of100serversperyear.

Enhancedsystemavailabilitythroughfullredundancyofpowerand

cooling systems and improved monitoring.

Improvedresourcemanagementandoperatingflexibilitybyenabling

lights-out operation.

Reduced energy use through more efficient room arrangement,

improvedcablemanagementandhot-aisle/cold-aisledesign.

BayCare Health System is the largest

full-service,community-based

healthcare system in the Tampa Bay

area,with17,000teammembers

and a wide variety of health services.

The organization is a not-for-profit

partnership of three geographically

defined community health alliances:

MortonPlantMeaseHealthCare,St.

Joseph’s-Baptist Health Care, and St.

Anthony’s Health Care. The alliances

represent a diversified, evolving,

integrated delivery system

incorporating a wide spectrum of

inpatient,ambulatory,practice

management and home care

servicesbasedinthegreater

Tampa Bay Region.

BayCare

Health System

Summary of content (6 pages)

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A Customer Success from the Experts in Business-Critical Continuity™ Background BayCare Health System BayCare Health System operates nine hospitals in the Tampa Bay area. Like other leading health providers, its doctors and administrators require access to the latest medical information.
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A Customer Success from the Experts in Business-Critical Continuity™ The Situation BayCare Health System was formed in 1997 when its three hospital groups came together to reduce costs and share best practices. Its nine hospitals improved efficiency by consolidating and sharing administrative departments such as human resources, financial services, purchasing and information technology. The strategy allowed BayCare to save more than $90 million in its first five years.
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A Customer Success from the Experts in Business-Critical Continuity™ have gotten a more hardened building if we had built it ourselves.” After identifying the site, Lauterbach and his team focused their attention on facility design. They identified four objectives for the new data center: • Scalability: In addition to the existing IT equipment, the new data center had to be able to support future growth, estimated at 100 servers annually.
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A Customer Success from the Experts in Business-Critical Continuity™ to run CFD calculations every three to six months, incorporating changing data captured from new thermistors, branch circuit monitoring and other tools. “Seeing Emerson’s CFD design ahead of time was important. It made everyone more confident in what we were doing,” Lauterbach says. “The first time I saw that CFD modeling, the ‘wow’ factor was there. It’s a great tool from a design perspective.
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A Customer Success from the Experts in Business-Critical Continuity™ a room. The iCOM setup wizard automatically sets up all the units in a room from a single location so the efficiency of the entire cooling system can be optimized. It can display user menus for active alarms, event log, graphic data, unit view/status overview, total run hours, various sensors, display setup and service contacts.
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A Customer Success from the Experts in Business-Critical Continuity™ The Result BayCare’s new data center went live at the end of July 2007—on time and on budget—and the last equipment move happened in early October. The new data center meets each of Lauterbach’s objectives and all of BayCare’s needs as it continues to grow and service the Tampa Bay region with outstanding healthcare supported by state-of-the-art IT capabilities.