Healthy and Secure Mobile Devices.
Just What the Doctor Ordered.

If you think the human body is a complex machine, try patching one up that isn't functioning properly. Today's healthcare providers require a staggering amount of knowledge and skill to deal successfully with the wide range of patients and ailments. As every good doctor knows, it's best to focus on maintaining good health and preventing disease, rather than facing myriad possible complications down the road.

It's the same with hospital IT systems. Probably no other industry has such a wide range of systems, data sources, security policies and other IT resources to integrate and maintain-from decades-old legacy databases to the latest wireless handhelds for mobile productivity. But no matter where the applications and data reside or how they're interfaced, everything depends on the health of network endpoints where the information is actually used.

With HIPAA and other regulations strictly controlling the way data can be shared and transmitted, it's especially important to ensure that end-user devices are always in compliance with hospital or clinic policies. But with the wide variety of devices in use-including an ever-growing number of remote and mobile devices-inventorying endpoints for hardware, software and policy compliance can be a monumental challenge.

Time for A Specialist: Endpoint Policy Management

Keeping distributed medical systems up-to-date, secure and healthy presents formidable challenges. In all cases, systems maintenance cannot interfere with critical medical support functions. Updating wireless medical devices presents its own set of issues-ranging from varying signal strength and dropped connections to more common issues associated with remote and mobile systems management.

With Endpoint Policy Management™ from iPass, healthcare organizations now have a single solution for automating software and hardware inventory and for distributing software and security patches across local and remote systems. This mobile management solution includes intelligent features that minimize bandwidth usage, give traffic priority to critical applications and resume downloads where they left off should a wireless device lose a connection.

For those who must keep medical devices healthy, it's literally a hands-off process. There's no software or hardware to install or maintain, no coordination of different management tools and no need to touch local or remote machines. Just send your users the Endpoint Policy Management agent—either by pushing it through Active Directory or using a login script, and they're automatically inventoried, validated and brought up to date with the latest software images and packages.

"Before Endpoint Policy Management when the Sasser worm threatened us, it was all hands on deck for three days going from PC to PC cleaning up machines. Now, with one person and a click of the mouse, we can do what it took 70 people and three days to accomplish."

—Kevin Stanfield, Client Device Administrator, Genesis Health System

"I was really impressed with the solution's smart package editor. Its point-and-click user interface doesn't require any scripting—you just drag and drop. It's so quick to assemble a package and get it deployed. This is one piece of software that we can use to do both local and remote systems management, and it does both tasks very well-especially software distribution."

—Will Soper, Systems Administrator, South Georgia Medical Center