4 ways to make healthcare networks easier to manage

Digital communication has become essential to the continuum of care and the patient experience. Telehealth services and electronic health records (EHRs) demand a growing share of technical resources, regardless of how stretched these resources are already.

Maintaining the network day to day becomes even more of a challenge as practices rapidly adopt new technologies to remain competitive. For example, according to HIMSS, healthcare providers have seen the average number of telehealth interactions increase by 145 percent since February 2020. Plus, the market for connected patient technologies and other components of the internet of medical things (IoMT) is expected to grow 19.9 percent annually over the next five years. On top of that, HD-video, high-resolution imaging and data from EHRs will continue to put more demands on bandwidth and performance from providers' networks. As their systems grow more complex, healthcare organizations must discover new approaches to keep them running and optimized with limited IT resources.

This guide outlines four ways for healthcare practices to simplify network management while also controlling costs, improving visibility into system performance and reducing demands on IT.