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Healthcare Mobility Solutions

The healthcare environment that moves with you

Mobile devices now have the power to run sophisticated applications, giving healthcare providers the ability to access systems and patient data in fast-paced, on-the-go environments. Healthcare IT departments are challenged to support the proliferation of devices and operating systems under a central structure, while delivering the data security that patients want and that regulations demand. F5 solutions can help healthcare organizations sort out the confusion by offering a unified IT structure that provides secure, single sign-on access for care providers, regardless of the endpoint or application being accessed. Mobility solutions from F5 work with existing Terminal Services and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) plans, and provide constant access to data while maintaining compliance with strict security standards.

Why do I need F5 healthcare mobility solutions?

Healthcare mobility solutions from F5 help healthcare organizations mobilize a network of providers who are constantly on the move—efficiently delivering access to applications and patient data regardless of the platform or location.

Business benefits of using F5 for your healthcare solution include:

  • Improved ability to access patient data quickly and securely from multiple platforms and devices with single sign-on
  • Compliance with patient data confidentiality regulations, while reducing costs throughout the organization
  • Unified infrastructure for simplified IT management and high availability
  • Enhanced scalability and extensibility for growing healthcare organizations

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.

PersonalizationMall.com | Overview

PersonalizationMall.com makes personalized gift buying quick and easy for customers. They have experienced tremendous growth, achieving $50 million in annual sales, and recently consolidating in a 120,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Woodridge, Illinois. PersonalizationMall.com requires reliable and fast remote access to stay in constant touch with the business. The IT team turned to F5 and its BIG‑IP Edge Gateway technology to ensure fast, reliable remote access.

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.

Top White Papers

F5 BIG-IP Platform Security | Overview

F5 BIG-IP system hardware and software, which use the F5 TMOS operating system, are designed from the ground up to work together to provide total application security.

Secure, Optimized Global Access to Corporate Resources | Overview

Global access to corporate applications is critical to an organization. The range of users, devices, and their locations requires stringent application access control to securely connect any user on any device from any location to wherever the application lives.,x-default

HIPAA Security Compliance and F5 Solutions | Overview

HIPAA, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, requires healthcare organizations to take added precautions to ensure the security of their networks and the privacy of patient data. This White Paper provides an overview of HIPAA security compliance, explores how companies can mitigate their security risks and adapt a strong HIPAA compliant posture using F5 products, illustrates how F5 products map to specific HIPAA security rules, and explores some of the key reasons F5 products are unique in their ability to provide companies with a simple means to allow compliance with HIPAA.

Resources

How do I implement a mobility solution for healthcare?

F5's comprehensive mobility solutions were 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 mobility needs.

Deployment Guides

F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager with IBM, Oracle and Microsoft (BIG-IP v10, APM) | Overview

Step-by-step instructions for deploying the BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) with IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business, Oracle Access Manager, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Resources

DevCentral Community

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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 mobility solution?

  • 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 Application Security Manager (ASM) is a web application firewall that secures web applications in traditional, virtual, and private cloud environments, providing unmatched application and website protection and compliance for key regulatory mandates.
  • 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.

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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