The Meaningful Use objectives in the HITECH Act are creating new urgency for hospitals to implement Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE). As hospitals deploy new applications, they must take steps to protect both the clinician experience and patient data, while controlling costs. Without physician adoption, Meaningful Use objectives cannot be met. This whitepaper highlights three steps hospitals can take to accelerate EMR adoption and achieve Meaningful Use using VMware View and Imprivata OneSign:
1. Deploy desktop virtualization throughout the hospital floor using VMware View™
2. Deploy single sign-on to the hospitals virtualized environment—providing No Click Access™ to virtual desktops
3. Secure unattended patient data on workstations using OneSign Secure Walk-Away®
STEP 1:
DEPLOY DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION ON THE HOSPITAL FLOOR
Despite the obvious benefits that EMRs can deliver, any new technology faces serious hurdles in healthcare organizations:Clinicians must be willing to embrace and use the new technology. It must make their jobs easier and more efficient, rather than harder
• Technology should ultimately drive down the cost of delivering high quality care by saving clinicians and the IT department time
• IT teams must be able to demonstrate HIPAA compliance and maintain the security of patient data when it is stored electronically on workstations, in patient rooms or in public areas Desktop virtualization solutions like VMware View can solve any of these challenges. Using desktop virtualization, hospitals can provide thin clients that access a ‘virtual’ PC actually running on a server in a data center.Desktop virtualization has many benefits that are particularly powerful in the healthcare environment:
• For physicians, nurses, and other clinicians, desktop virtualization can improve productivity and satisfaction by providing a personalizedesktop experience. Rather than having a desktop session resident on a specific physical computer, it can follow them throughout their day as they move
between rooms and workstations. And because the desktop itself is hosted in the virtualization environment in the data center, physicians can use mobile devices like iPads or iPhones to access applications.
• For IT staff, using desktop virtualization reduces the tasks of maintaining and supporting PCs throughout the hospital. IT can
install, maintain, back up and manage all software and data. source
