Hospitals continue to spend millions of dollars on upgrading their network infrastructure and/or building new wings to their existing acute care or ambulatory care environments. Internet Protocol (IP) convergence is slowly but steadily becoming a reality and customers are demanding an environment whereby they can improve quality of patient care and at the same time reduce overall expenses. Many hospitals have or are moving towards a converged IP network and as such they are looking at ways to connect Information Technology (IT) devices, biomedical devices, and guest services on a converged IP network in a secure and reliable manner.
Cisco offers the following documents to help address healthcare customers' pain point in this space: