As one of the leading hospitals in the United Kingdom, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is a lively, welcoming, and accessible district general hospital located in Bury St. Edmunds, England. With more than 430 beds, the hospital is equipped to serve a population of 275,000. The hospital recently implemented its new “e-Care” electronic patient record system, which has been adopted by staff across all sites and provided an integrated clinical information structure designed to support all clinical pathways. A major part of the new ePR was the introduction of an additional 200 devices across all clinical areas of the Hospital, including Workstations on Wheels (WoWs) and rugged tablet PC’s. To support the new e-Care applications and to provide the network with the required reliability and security, West Suffolk Hospital chose Extreme Networks to upgrade the entire network.
Benefits of the new network solution include:
