Dell announced a Mobile Clinical Computing (MCC) solution that is designed to eliminate the traditional trade-offs hospitals face between making patient information available to medical staff at the point of care and securing it in the data center to promote compliance with HIPAA regulations.
Data security is a legitimate concern for hospitals and patients. With an estimated average data breach cost of $202 per record, or $4 million to $20 million for recent hospital breaches — hospitals must protect critical information from unauthorized access and use while at the same time sharing it at the point of care for diagnosis and coordination of patient care.
The proliferation of devices such as handhelds, laptops, tablets, carts and desktops — and applications — 45 percent of hospitals manage more than 150 applications — adds to the complexity of the challenge and highlights the need for a solution. Hospital medical staffs can spend up to 60 minutes a day looking for the right workstation with the right applications to do their job. With labor accounting for almost 60 percent of hospital care costs and the costs to manage data breaches potentially running into the tens of millions of dollars, that’s inefficiency that hospitals can no longer afford. Dell is helping members of the hospital staff work more efficiently by offering a virtual client solution that is easy for clinicians to use and IT teams to manage.
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