Our partnership with Cisco spans the life of our firm and has resulted in architecting, designing, building and supporting the most advanced healthcare systems in Canada.

Together, we simplify healthcare through a network of interoperable tech-nologies that better connect patients with medical providers, payers, and life science organizations. Cisco's technology platform coupled with FlexITy’s engineering approach, links critical information, people, and knowledge to improve the healthcare experience.

As healthcare providers face continual pressure to be accessible, afford-able, and responsive, they rely on technology to help achieve essential objectives, including:

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2011 Cisco Global Collaboration Partner of the Year2011 Cisco North American Vertical Partner of the Year

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Better quality of care Improved patient outcomes Increased productivity and workflow efficiencyImproved and integrated communications

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Do More with Existing StaffFlexITy Healthcare’s Compliance and Medical Device Manage-ment Solutions facilitate security, interoperability, device connec-tivity, and regulatory compliance. Our solutions, developed in partnership with Cisco Systems, enhance the integration and management of medical device data in an open yet secure envi-ronment, providing secure access to network resources and applications anywhere, anytime, to any device.

With an ever-growing shortage of registered nurses, research shows that patient safety and healthcare quality are diminished. At the same time, hospitals are struggling to contain costs rising faster than the rate of inflation. The Cisco Nurse Connect Solu-tion addresses these challenges by facilitating better collabora-tion among caregivers, allowing them to prioritize responsetimes and permitting them to assign tasks more efficiently.

The Nurse Connect Solution facilitates collaboration among mobile caregivers, enabling them to reach each other and to be reached over multiple types of devices, wherever they have a wireless signal. This provides more efficient patient care from almost any location and delivers nurse call alerts to Cisco wire-less phones and other end points delivering:

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Effective and timely communications between a patient and a nurse. Streamline communications and speed delivery of actionable informationto caregivers. Nurses can call back and speak to a patient to understand his or her need before responding. This enables them to prioritize responsesor to hand off the patient’s request to someone better suited to address it. Caregivers can also assemble specialized teams to handle true emergencies more quickly. Improved mobility and nurse productivity enhancements. Clinical staff is freed from being tied to specific physical locations because they can be reached through mobile devices, allowing them to spend more time at the point of care. More comfortable, quieter patient environment, leading to improved satisfaction.The reduction of overhead pages makes for a less-noisy point-of-care environment and can help to protect patient privacy.

A New Care ModelFlexITy - and Cisco deliver the Medical-Grade Network (MGN) providing the foundation for reliable, seamless, and highly secure data communications across the healthcare community. MGN supports:

The MGN plays a critical role in this new care model by facilitating information sharing across the healthcare de-livery system. The network provides the platform for ex-changing reliable, accurate, and consistent patient infor-mation. This provides the foundation for a connected health ecosystem.

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Efficient communications among clinicians, patients, administrators, and partnersRegulatory requirements for patient privacy and data securityThe unique information, technology, bandwidth, and integration challenges of healthcareAnytime, anywhere information capture and access for wired and wireless applications and devicesConverged data, voice, and video networksIdentity and policy-based security from inside the network to beyond organizational wallsTransfer and storage of the large amounts of data created by healthcare applications

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Easily Access and Share Patient RecordsThe Cisco Medical Data Exchange Solution (MDES) is an integrated end-to-end, standards-based solution that facilitates patient-centric access to medical records.

MDES provides healthcare professionals from multiple institutions access to patient data from previously disconnected systems with incompatible formats and disparate medical terminology. Now providers can quickly and easily access and review a patient's medical data gathered by different applications and stored in separate locations.

The solution helps address several key issues:

Patients today often receive care at multiple facilities, resulting in individual medical records at multiple locations. As a result, exchanging medical data between healthcare providers has become increasingly challenging, poorly coordinated, and expensive. Worst of all, the quality of care patients receive can be put at risk. Cisco Medical Data Exchange SolutionCisco MDES allows publishing, discovery, and retrieval of patient informa-tion, including lab reports, imaging documents, physicians’ notes, and other data. In addition to making medical information patient-centric, it pulls data from multiple sources so Electronic Health Records (EHR) are available at the point of care. Why FlexITy and Cisco?Our shared mission is to improve data safety, access, productivity, and affordability through the deployment and adoption of interoperable networks, as well as delivering solutions that transform the healthcare industry and patient care overall.

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Limited access to clinical patient informationIncreasing costs and inefficiencies of healthcare services\Improving quality of patient care and experience

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Next-Generation Data Center for HealthcareIn concert with Cisco Systems technologies, our healthcare data center architecture delivers the scalability and cost-effectiveness to support PACS as well as healthcare’s other growing re-quirements, such as:

Our Data Center for Healthcare solution helps address these needs by dramatically reducing costs and management complexity in the data center.

Unified Computing RealizedAdvances in technology along with the trend toward collaboration and market globalization are putting IT at the center of a shift in the busi-ness model for the healthcare industry. The rapid adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and the implementation of new clinical applications are creating a critical need for more data storage, resulting in the growth of health-care facilities and increased IT spending.

These new business imperatives are requiring healthcare organizations to take a new approach to the design and management of the data center, with the goal of moving from rigid, dispersed plat-forms to more flexible, integrated, and virtualized environments. By unifying the underlying re-sources, processes, applications, and people that support the organization, the data center network can become the foundation for implementing new capabilities to increase efficiency and meet pa-tient needs. Learn how FlexITy and Cisco’s Unified Comput-ing Solution unite compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility.

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The need for caregivers to interact with patients and deliver information immediately although they may be separated by a city, state, country, or continentThe elimination of manual paper and analog media, and the transition to a digital environment with the architectures neces-sary for business continuity and disaster recoveryA collaborative atmosphere where more professionals are involved in data interpretations and patient care

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Advance quality initiatives Improving access to care Keeping costs contained Ensuring staff productivity

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Healthcare in the 21st century presents enormous challenges. Populations are grow-ing, people are living longer. Many of these patients are living with chronic illnesses that require ongoing care. Compounding this problem is the widespread lack of skilled caregivers, and the increasing cost of providing care. For people living in rural areas, the situation can be even more challenging, as rising travel costs can make it even more expensive to seek care.

At FlexITy, we are working to improve healthcare by changing the way people connect with each other, access information, and collaborate. In partnership with Cisco, our Care-at-a-Distance solutions give patients, clinicians, hospitals, payers, and life-sciences researchers better ways to communicate, share information, and interact in real-time. The result is more efficient healthcare environments, which can lead to improved patient experiences.

With the right technologies in place, you can readily address your most pressing concerns:

Our goal is to help you find the solutions you need to deliver the best care possible.

Together, we seek to insure these questions:

How can patients communicate with their providers and specialists remotely?What resource constraints are preventing your organization from seeing patients located in rural areas?Why do patients put off seeking the care they need? How can you overcome these obstacles?How can you use technology to minimize or even eliminate patient transfers?How can you make it easier to access specialists and other scarce resources?