For the first time since 2011 California is drought free. For residents in the northern Lake Tahoe area, the snowpack means more time on the slopes and a spike in tourists visiting the area and enjoying all the beauty that the region offers.
Truckee and the surrounding area attract outdoor enthusiasts during the winter months and in the summer. Everyone who craves time outside, whatever the season, can be confident that the region’s prize-winning healthcare system, Tahoe Forest Health System (TFHS), can meet their needs.
TFHS has been busy adding services to better serve north Lake Tahoe’s growing population. The Tahoe Forest Hospital offers premium care to six rural counties in both California and Nevada. In nearby Incline Village, a four-bed critical access hospital counts itself within TFHS, as do six specialty clinics.
Annually, nearly 150,000 patients visit a hospital or clinic that TFHS oversees, and providing the best possible healthcare for those patients impacts each and every decision.
“We want to put every dollar we spend towards patient care,” said Jake Dorst, chief information and innovation officer at TFHS. “We realized that if we could save on network infrastructure costs, those dollars could be put back into new construction and improving services for the community and our patients.”
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Patient-first decision-making drove the choices TFHS made in upgrading its aging network infrastructure. After years of service, the legacy network was labeled expensive more often than indispensable. Dorst and his team started reviewing better options for the network and tapped Aruba both for its advanced network technology and operational cost savings. By standardizing on Aruba, TFHS expects to save between $750,000 and $1 million in operational costs over the next five years.
TFHS and solution partner WrightCore designed a unified wireless and wired network with the Aruba Experience Edge infrastructure to support the Mercy Epic electronic health records system and share X-ray, CT, and MRI imaging across both campuses. To handle network access, application traffic, mobile devices, and a future plan for IoT, WrightCore and TFHS deployed Arubaaccess points,controllers和开关。使用Aruba 2930,3810和5400R交换机的混合有助于右键部署，并避免竞争昂贵的网络设计方面的规范方法。
TFHS also added inAirWavefor unified network management andClearPassfor wireless and wired network access control. With a nod to the mission-critical nature of healthcare, the team includedArubaOS 8和its Live Upgrade feature that supports the upgrade of the entire network in real time without affecting users of medical devices.
Aruba网络很容易提供TFHS所需的性能 - 它符合医疗保健人员，游客和TFHS IT团队的需求。AI-PoweredAirMatch自动对网络进行调整以优化性能，实时升级功能支持自动升级。对于员工和客人来说，清除通道支持轻松的客人访问，同时保持网络安全。
Caregivers, administrators and physicians access the network using a mix of corporate-issued and personal devices, plus medical-centric devices like Haiku and Canto. Dorst predicts a big lift in mobile devices as more staff, patients, and visitors want access to network while visiting TFHS.
“With the addition of ClearPass, we can provide BYOD and guest access with increased levels of network security, and begin rolling out more mobile applications that are specific to our operations,” Dorst noted. “For example, we’re improving and promoting our patient portal, and looking at kiosks and mobile devices in our clinics to allow patients to access forms and information that speeds their registration process. Our hope is that the easier and smoother we can make these processes, the more people will use our services.”
Aruba Network具有清除通道也将在确保未来的IOT部署方面发挥重要作用。IoT设备目前监控冰箱温度和DORST期望传感器和设备将来将在网络上雕刻更多空间。
TFHS Lifts Area Healthcare to New Heights
TFHS在过去几年中一直在迅速扩张。2015年至2018年间，TFHS将其医务人员团队从115增加到14666666。随着员工和服务的增加，2014年患者的患者对诊所的访问稳步增长至2018年的67,000.由于未来几年TFHS预计将增加更多的增长网络上的更多用户，新的应用程序和其他服务。随着先进的统一Aruba体验Edge Network，TFHS具有在整个季节和井中满足患者和护理人员期望所需的性能和管理。
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正在提高患者体验和提供个性化护理的医院正在实现更高的满意度。阿鲁巴提供了一个投资组合networking solutions这可以帮助保持员工，看护人和游客感觉积极和生产力。
