Healthcare
Healthcare providers continually strive to deliver the highest quality care, make that care easily accessible, and deliver services at the lowest reasonable cost. To accomplish these goals, innovative healthcare organizations are increasingly leveraging their IT investments. For healthcare IT organizations, the challenge is to improve the quality of patient care through the use of innovative technologies, to enable reductions in patient care costs, and to provide security for PHI, limiting access to authorized users only.
There are several IT initiatives within the healthcare sector that Juniper actively supports. For those who deploy them, these initiatives are considered best practices to ensure the quality, safety and authorized availability of vital healthcare information and services.
Sectors
General Healthcare
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Rural Healthcare
Learn how Juniper Networks can help FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program projects and rural healthcare efforts.
Applications
| Topics | Description |
|---|---|
| Application Performance | Accelerate and optimize application delivery from central data centers and over end-to-end connections, to reduce delay and to send/receive more traffic over constrained bandwidth links. |
| Branch / Remote Office | Ensure extended business operations at branch and remote sites by fully protecting internal systems and assuring the usability and availability of centralized applications. |
| Compliance | Support compliance with regulations like HIPAA by securing stored data, controlling access to data, ensuring data availability and privacy, and monitoring network events. |
| Data Centers | Extend critical financial applications, while consolidating servers, firewalls, and other infrastructure into fewer, larger data centers, with integrated capabilities that defend, secure, assure, and accelerate applications. |
| Microsoft Applications | The Juniper Networks Microsoft Resource Center provides demos, literature, case studies, and tools on securing and assuring performance for centralized Microsoft applications. Find Juniper solutions to specific issues related to Microsoft applications and protocols, including: Exchange, WAFS/File Services, SharePoint, and Secure Microsoft Applications. |
| Remote Access Control | Doctors and nurses in remote offices or in the field must be assured that necessary information is available, and that the integrity of the data is maintained during transmission. |
| Security | Ensure patient privacy and protect against emergent threats, both inside and outside your network, with layered security that includes network- and application-layer access control mechanisms. |
| Voice over IP | Ensure that the network infrastructure is ready to support high-quality voice and video, protecting it against threats and misuse, and assuring performance and availability. |
| VPNs and WAN Evolution | Cost-effectively extend secure networks to new facilities by leveraging IP/MPLS, IPSec, and SSL VPNs, and enable higher performance with platforms to accelerate applications. |