Healthcare Virtualization

Healthcare Virtualization Scripting Tool

In its simplest terms healthcare virtualization means the abstraction of computer resources in a healthcare setting, such as a clinic, doctor’s office, or hospital. The benefits of healthcare virtualization are that it enables far better use of computer resources than in non-virtualized environments, and enables an enterprise to maximize its investment in hardware.  With hospital virtualization, a large deployment on a few highly scalable, highly reliable, enterprise-class servers,  can substantially reduce costs related to hardware and application purchases, services and maintenance.

Healthcare virtualization can help companies act and react more quickly to business needs – be it clinical, financial or otherwise.  The most important outcome of this is the direct impact on patient care. Consolidating applications onto fewer physical servers can save precious square footage in addition to allowing new applications to be deployed.

Healthcare Virtualization and Boston WorkStation

Healthcare or hospital virtualization is a natural fit with Boston WorkStation - a workflow automation development tool. A virtual environment provides an excellent opportunity to boost capacity of workflow or process automation projects. Myriad task automation jobs, such as printing reports, downloading vendor information and data entry across all hospital departments, including Lab, Pharmacy, Billing, Quality Management, Admissions, Emergency Department management and Medical Records may be developed, deployed and managed in a hospital virtualization environment.

With a single virtual server in place, healthcare organizations and hospitals can more widely disperse scripts, making them more manageable and efficient. A single vendor download request that might take eight hours to complete with a typical standalone script can take a fraction of the time, when divided appropriately among virtual servers.

Download the Christus Health case study for an example of Boston WorkStation in a virtual environment.

Contact us to learn more about how Boston WorkStation can help you achieve workflow automation through virtualization.