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Today, healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) are making transformative changes at a speed that rivals other businesses.

The frequency and impact of clinical advancements are challenging clinicians. Their ability to stay current impacts patient outcomes and safety.

Technological advancements are pulling healthcare IT into new frontiers. Healthcare IT is now among the most dynamic and complex IT sectors. IT is no longer hiding in the back office, instead they are front and center playing a critical role in providing quality and cost-effective care delivery.

To thrive in this era healthcare IT is pressured to make good decisions about where to invest and how to staff.

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Are you readyto enable initiativesthat will transformcare delivery?

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The primary value proposition drivingHDO executives is delivering:

New care delivery paradigms utilizing virtual care, precision algorithms and artificial intelligence must enable connected,

personalized service delivery in real time and at scale.

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QUALITY HEALTHCARE

AFFORDABLECONVENIENT

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Today, two initiatives dominate planning and funding:Quality of Care & The Patient Experience.

Quality of care, the measure of healthcare effectiveness, provides quantitative data on clinical outcomes and patient safety metrics. Patient experience, on the other hand, is the patient perception of how care is delivered and includes:

• The responsiveness of clinicians• The clinical team• How quickly services are scheduled• The accuracy of the billing

Essential to achieving these objectives is theEHR – the electronic health record.

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Today the question is not “should we adopt an EHR” instead HDOs are asking “how do we get more value from EHR?”

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HDO CIOs rely on EHR platforms to provide clinicians and patients a more structured, evidence-based approach to care.

HDOs position EHR in several ways:• For some it is a cost of doing business• For others EHR improves access to charts by eliminating paper • For some CIOs EHR is an essential clinical platformThe variance is based on how broadly and effectively the EHR is implemented.

Like all mission critical enterprise applications, EHR is not a “once and done”. Instead it requires a long-term commitment to ongoing optimization. As healthcare imperatives change, the EHR suite and adjunct software evolves.

In fact, it is the future of EHR that holds the greatest promise and value.

For hospitals and health systems to thrive, they must realize the potential of EHR. EHR, fully implemented, improves the performance of clinicians, supports collaboration of care teams and gives patients the transparency they want in their care.

Are you ready to realize the full potential of your EHR solution?

Healthcare IT will be expected to deliver cost-effective, agile and responsive services within the context of an increasingly demanding set of regulatory, privacy and security mandates.

IT must prioritize simplification and standardization of IT infrastructure to prepare for rapid adoption of new technologies and applications.

Experts agree that the future of healthcare requires infrastructure upgrades: • Adoption and management of a secure mobile infrastructure • Secure infrastructure and network to mitigate risk• Implementation of big data and analytics to leverage IoT • Hybrid cloud approach to application hosting

Most important is the need for speed!

Will your infrastructure decisions enable responsive adoption of new capabilities at a cost you can afford?

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Analysts and industry organizations, like HIMSS, report that for many providers the full value of existing investments such as electronic health record (EHR) and other foundational technologies has yet to be realized.

In 2017, a Gartner survey of healthcare provider CIOs revealed:

• Only 1 in 5 CIOs report full ROI from their EHR investment• Surprisingly only 1 in 5 enterprise applications were being

delivered via the cloud• Configuration challenges and functionality gaps

were identified as barriers to full adoption by 40% of organizations with enterprise EHR

Healthcare IT, like other businesses, are having to manage the budgetary and staffing challenges of doing more without major incremental changes to IT budgets.

“Digital transformation is driving organizations to modernize their business technologies, and many are turning to cloud solutions to enable this.”- Forrester 2017.

Are you ready to get more value fromyour EHR?

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Virtustream wants you to know we can accelerate value creation.

EHR solutions provide many benefits: • Improved patient safety • Shortened hospital stays • Reduction of unnecessary practice variations

Fully capable EHR solutions can be big and complex to manage. IT needs to accommodate sometimes frequent software upgrades which can trigger unplanned hardware upgrades. Because EHR solutions are mission critical, they demand rigorous SLAs for availability and performance.

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Is cloud safe for healthcare IT?Gartner reports that although IT leaders harbor concerns about the safety of their patient data in the cloud, concerns have diminished over the years. They predict:

• By 2021 cloud service providers will process more than 35% of healthcare providers’ IT workloads

• By 2022, two-thirds of n-tier legacy workloads will have migrated off-premises

• One-third will remain on-premises, one-third will be hosted off-premises and one-third will be public cloud

In fact, an increasing number of organizations are migrating high-value workloads to the cloud to take advantage of its opex pricing structures and increased agility.

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In a May 2017 survey conducted by Forrester and sponsored by Virtustream, Forrester asked: What are the top 5 reasons for migrating applications to the cloud?

Here’s what responders said:

53% Free up time to focus on core differentiators52% Cost reduction49% Greater ability to scale up or scale down resources and costs 49% Greater connectivity for a digital transformation46% Faster than fixing our own datacenter

For mission critical applications, migrating to a purpose built cloud presents an opportunity for greater ROI.

No other cloud provider has more experience migrating mission critical applications to the cloud than Virtustream.

Virtustream Healthcare Cloud is purpose-built for the applications that matter most – the most capable and modern EHR solution.

Here are five reasons to say YES to Virtustream Healthcare Cloud!

1. Enables rapid response to high value system changes2. Scales up and scales down for ongoing availability and

predictable performance3. Virtustream Cloud has the potential to reduce cost – replacing

capital investment with operational expenses and unique consumption based pricing

4. Once your EHR is migrated to the Virtustream Cloud, you can count on rapid response to changing care delivery requirements

5. Virtustream Healthcare Cloud adheres to HIPAA and HITRUST regulations which detail security requirements for cloud service providers

Are you ready to migrate to the Virtustream Healthcare Cloud?

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Virtustream Healthcare Cloud is purpose built forthe applications that matter most – like EHR solutions.

Customers using the Virtustream Cloud are able to respondquickly to changes in the business of healthcare.

Rather than spending resources on just running your EHR, HDOs focus on using the EHR solution to improve quality of care and the patient experience.

New features and functions of EHR solutions are adopted quickly withoutspending unplanned dollars for hardware or staffing.

With Virtustream as your cloud partner staying currentwith maintenance is guaranteed.

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No one knows more about serving mission critical applications on the cloud than Virtustream!

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Migrating your EHR to the Virtustream Cloud is a SMART MOVE toward quality care. Here’s what’s DIFFERENT:

Hardware Designed for EHR: The Virtustream Cloud hardware is purpose built to support mission critical workloads. Virtustream provides the storage, compute and networking equipment required for the most aggressive workloads

Performance: Virtustream Connected IaaS is a logically dedicated kit connected to the Virtustreammulti-tenant infrastructure running workloads having multi-millions of transactions

Complete Transparency: xStream Cloud Management Platform injects ultimate efficiency, control and automation ensuring true consumption based pricing and the reports you need on usage, SLAs and billing

Consumption Billing: Virtustream employs intelligent workload placement and proactive infrastructure optimization. By leveraging the Virtustream cloud kilowatt, we essentially eliminate over-provisioning - the biggest reasons for unexpected cost overrun on the cloud

One Smooth Operation: Extreme workloads like EHR solutions are challenging to migrate to the cloud. Virtustream Cloud Migration Practices alleviates risk and limits disruption during the move

Are you ready for Virtustream Healthcare Cloud?

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For HDOs and the healthcare IT that serve them, migrating EHR to a managed, cost effective and secure cloud means improved ROI and more. . . . • Confidence• Trust• Safety and security• Increased Productivity • Savings to the bottom line

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The combined power of these seven leaders is driving customer success – together we deliver true digital transformation and deliver game-changing advantages.

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