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Application Delivery Optimization Solutions

Highly available systems that patients and providers can rely on

Providers and patients require highly-optimized applications, increasing the demand on healthcare systems. Providers need constant access to critical patient data and applications in order to deliver quality clinical outcomes, and patients can now access electronic records and self-service capabilities online. Addressing the need for well-managed EMR applications and diagnostic systems, F5 solutions help coordinate multiple systems and vendors to maximize infrastructure efficiency. By optimizing application delivery, organizations can build and maintain a load-balanced environment that delivers speedy performance and maximum uptime. And those systems can be successfully replicated for multiple deployments—saving money and time while minimizing risk.

Why do I need F5 application delivery optimization solutions?

By using F5 application delivery optimization solutions, healthcare organizations can ensure that their networks are running at peak performance so that critical applications are constantly available to meet patient and provider demands.

Benefits of using F5 for your healthcare solution include:

  • Secured application access with maximum availability to equally meet patient and provider needs
  • Improved application performance, flexibility, and scalability for optimum infrastructure efficiency
  • Centrally-managed applications, data, and user access to help ensure the right information is available for the right users when they need it
  • Easily-replicated application deployment and management, resulting in reduced costs and minimized risks

Top Case Studies

West Virginia University Hospitals | Overview

West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH) wanted to increase the availability of its Epic clinical applications and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailboxes, while easing the user authentication process. With F5 solutions, the organization can provide higher uptime for its Epic and Exchange environments, and can give doctors and nurses more reliable access to these critical applications.

Healthcare: ADC Solution | Overview

A healthcare organization's small application management staff must ensure high availability and fast delivery of thousands of critical administrative and clinical applications. To meet those goals, the organization uses an integrated solution that includes F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and BIG-IP Application Policy Manager (APM), managed by F5 Enterprise Manager.

Sysmex America | Overview

To ensure business continuity and seamless communication among customers, partners, and employees, Sysmex must keep email systems highly available. The company employed the Application Ready Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 from F5 Networks and as a result, has surpassed 99.999 percent email uptime.

Medavie Blue Cross | Overview

Medavie Blue Cross provides health, travel, life, and disability income coverage to groups and individuals throughout Canada. It has 30.5 million customer contacts annually, with $3 billion in revenue and claims under administration. Medavie Blue Cross needed to improve the flexibility and scalability of its web application infrastructure. Using F5 solutions, the company optimized application performance and realized substantial ROI across a dynamic and scalable IT infrastructure.

RelayHealth | Overview

RelayHealth provides a software as a service (SaaS) platform for the healthcare industry that connects patients, providers, pharmacies, payers, and financial institutions. RelayHealth simplified its application delivery infrastructure and improved the performance, reliability, and manageability of its applications by implementing F5 BIG-IP solutions.

Top White Papers

The F5 Dynamic Services Model | Audio | Overview

F5 believes a new approach to infrastructure design must emerge—one that enables enterprises to add, remove, grow, and shrink IT services on demand, regardless of location. This new infrastructure must dynamically optimize the interaction between users and resources in the face of rapidly changing conditions. It must allow the IT enterprise to adapt quickly to changing organizational demands for security, data protection, ease of access, market responsiveness, low cost, and high performance.

Achieving Enterprise Agility in the Cloud | Overview

Cloud computing continues to be one of today’s most intriguing IT technologies, yet enterprises are still weighing whether it can help them achieve their business goals. Working together, VMware, F5 Networks, and BlueLock offer integrated solutions that help enterprises develop agility so they can easily and efficiently use cloud resources on demand to meet their changing needs.

F5 BIG‑IP v10 | Audio | Overview

The enhancements and new features available in BIG-IP v10 make this one of the most exciting new releases of an Application Delivery Controller in many years. The move toward a unified, adaptable dynamic infrastructure cannot be achieved without many of the innovative new features available in the new version of the BIG-IP system and the enhancements to its manageability make BIG-IP v10 more efficient than ever.

Load Balancing 101: The Evolution to Application Delivery Controllers | Audio | Overview

One of the unfortunate effects of the continued evolution of the load balancer into today's application delivery controller (ADC) is that it is often too easy to forget the basic problem for which load balancers were originally created-producing highly available, scalable, and predictable application services. This White Paper describes the Evolution of load balancing devices to Application Delivery Controllers.

Resources

How do I implement an application delivery solution for healthcare?

F5’s comprehensive application delivery solutions are designed to make implementation easy and manageable. For step-by-step configuration instructions, our deployment guides contain detailed procedures on configuring F5 devices to meet your application delivery needs.

Deployment Guides

HTTP Applications (BIG-IP v11) | Overview

This document contains guidance on configuring the iApp in BIG-IP system version 11 for simple web server implementations, resulting in a secure, fast, and available deployment.

DNS Traffic Management (BIG-IP v11) | Overview

This document contains guidance on configuring the iApp in BIG-IP system version 11 for intelligent traffic management for DNS servers, resulting in a secure, fast, and available deployment.

VMware ESX Server (BIG-IP LTM/GTM/WebAccelerator, F5 ARX Series) | Overview

Deploying F5 devices with VMware ESX Server. Updated to include the F5 ARX configuration. Tested with BIG-IP LTM, GTM, and WebAccelerator version 9.4.2, ARX 5.0.1, and VMware ESX Server 3 (3.5 for ARX).,x-default

Resources

DevCentral Community

F5 DevCentral, is our community driven site that helps customers and partners maximize the effectiveness of F5 technologies & solutions.

F5 Knowledge Base

The AskF5 Knowledge Base has product manuals, security advisories, and release notes on F5 products.

What F5 offerings do I need for a healthcare application delivery solution?

  • BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is a full proxy between users and application servers, creating a layer of abstraction to secure, optimize, and load balance application traffic, giving you the control to add applications and servers easily, eliminate downtime, improve application performance, and meet your security requirements.
  • BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) distributes user application requests based on business policies, data center and network conditions, user location, and application performance, giving you holistic control of your global traffic to ensure better application performance, less downtime, and simplified management.
  • F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is a flexible, high-performance access and security solution that provides unified global access to your most important healthcare applications and network, helping you to free up valuable IT resources and scale cost-effectively.
  • BIG-IP WebAccelerator gives your users an instant improvement in web application performance and helps you reduce costs by offloading your network and servers, decreasing your spending on additional bandwidth and hardware.
  • BIG‑IP WAN Optimization Manager (WOM) overcomes network and application issues on the WAN to ensure that application availability, data replication, and disaster recovery requirements are met, reducing data replication times and enabling more efficient use of your existing bandwidth.

Resources

F5 Technology Demo

This animated demo shows the F5 application delivery networking technologies working in different scenarios.

BIG-IP Overview Demo

This in-depth Flash demo gives a video introduction, overview, and next steps for using BIG-IP.

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