West Valley Medical Center - October 01, 2019

Q4 Thin Client install

Jay Middleton
Director of IT

In 2018 Capital Division deployed a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to six facilities in the Richmond Market. Called Roaming Desktop, these VDI sessions allow clinical users to move from workstation to workstation throughout the facility maintaining their open applications including Meditech. This workflow improvement greatly reduces the time to reconnect and reopen desktop applications.

ITG has received extremely positive feedback from both Nursing and Physician staff about the benefits of Roaming Desktop. In Q4 we will begin replacing “gen-share” workstations with thin clients. Testing is already underway and we are excited to leverage this new technology. Here are some more clinical benefits.

  • Mobility – clinical staff have their desktop session follow them around the facility, complete with all open applications.
  • Time Saver – applications remain open, preventing repetitive tasks.
  • Reliability – power outages no longer mean Meditech locks and long reboots. The thin client powers up in an few seconds and the user resumes the previous session.
  • Quick Reconnect – thin client technology reduces the user reconnect time to seconds negating the initial Windows 10 login time of about 1 minute.
  • Support – less physical technical interference. Fast deployment and longer life.

iMobile is coming to West Valley October 28th!

Abigail Murray
Director of Clinical Informatics

IMobile is an enterprise-wide initiative that seeks to transform care coordination within HCA by leveraging smartphone technology: it enables synchronous and asynchronous communication between healthcare providers and helps deliver quality care by bringing clinicians closer to the bedside.

Key functionality

  • Off-the-shelf smartphone technology
  • Secure and HIPAA compliant
  • Secure texting and voice calling both inside and outside the hospital
  • Lab and ADT integration with the electronic health record
  • Full hospital directory
  • Caregiver-specific alerts
  • Notifications for alerts, communication and information
  • Pre-programmed texts and broadcast messaging

Staff training begins this month and provider training will be hosted during the Go-Live week: Oct 28 – Nov 2. Interested in more information? Please contact Abigail Murray.

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