Building Healthcare Networks that Solve Big Data Congestion

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 1:00 PM ET

As a healthcare provider, you rely on advanced technologies such as electronic medical records (EMR), picture archiving communications systems (PACS), diagnostic imaging, and telehealth applications to improve both the quality and safety of patient care offered by your organization.

These applications have become main stream and are contributing to improved patient care, better health outcomes and faster recoveries. The performance of these applications and their ability to improve patient care is directly related to the capacity and resiliency of the hospital’s network infrastructure.

Is your network keeping up with the demands of new medical applications that can quickly congest your organization’s network with large data files? Do your future needs require that you adopt advanced electronic medical record archives or to make more network data available to improve diagnosis and patient care?

Join Healthcare Informatics to explore the unique connectivity challenges healthcare organizations face and the steps they can take to solve their network throughput and capacity demands.

Participants will hear from industry experts, including Thomas Fairfield, Manager of Technology at Elliott Health System on the following topics:

  • An overview of technologies and programs that are driving massive data transfers and storage requirements and their impacts on network performance;
  • Driving factors in designing and implementing high quality networks for hospital, medical and biotech facilities;
  • Determining factors to consider when selecting dark fiber, dim fiber or managed network services; and
  • Customized options available to healthcare facilities for optimizing the performance of networks, including scalability, speed and security. 
About the Speaker(s):

 

Thomas Fairfield, 
Manager of Technology
Elliot Health System

Elliot Health System is the largest provider of comprehensive healthcare services in Southern New Hampshire. Based in Manchester, Elliot has been providing local communities with caring, compassionate and professional patient service since 1890. The healthcare system uses cutting-edge computing technology and is recognized as one the top 100 Most Wired Hospitals for 2011 by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine and has been recognized as a HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 Hospital for EMR adoption.

Thomas Fairfield has been with Elliot Health System for 16 years and as Manager of Technology, he currently oversees the Network and Server infrastructure groups.

 

Joe Kestel
Vice President
Relevant C Business Group

Joe Kestel is Vice President at Relevant C Business Group (RCBG), a renowned business strategy consultancy headquartered in Chicago.  He manages projects for the firm’s global roster of TMT clients, applying his expertise in technology and market assessment, business modeling, and product positioning strategy.  His research interests include core infrastructure and content delivery networks, emerging media, app ecosystems, and cloud computing.

Prior to joining RCBG, Mr. Kestel was Executive Director at New Paradigm Resources Group, Inc. (NPRG), where he led the firm’s industry analysis research and reports.  His coverage areas included optical services and carrier Ethernet, access and wide area networking technologies, and next-gen voice and data services across a variety of retail and wholesale market segments.  He was previously a strategy consultant at Technomic International and his own firm.  A member of the IEEE Communications Society, Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals, and the World Future Society, Joe has spoken at a number of industry events, including NXTcomm, COMPTEL, and the FTTH Conference.  Currently, he serves on the planning committee for the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy’s 25thanniversary year.  He holds an M.S. degree from Virginia Tech and a B.S. in Physics from Davidson College.

 

Maura Mahoney
Sidera Networks

Maura Mahoney is Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Sidera Networks. Ms. Mahoney is responsible for all aspects of Marketing & Business Development including marketing communications, product management and development, systems engineering and business. Ms. Mahoney has over 20 years in the communications industry holding Sales & Marketing roles of increasing responsibility with companies such as Bell Atlantic and its various predecessors.

Ms. Mahoney holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and a B.S. degree in Finance from Bentley University.
 

Ray Patalano
Ciena Communications Corporation

As the Channel Partner Manager at Ciena Communications Corporation, Ray Patalano is focused on assessing the networking needs of several industry clients including Healthcare institutions and Financial Services organizations to then determine where multiple networking technologies can be integrated to complete a full solution.

Mr. Patalano has worked for several premier companies in the networking industry including Motorola, Vanguard Managed Solutions and 3Com. He has held various positions of increasing responsibility including Product Line Manager, Field Marketing Manager, Product Marketing Manager and Director of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Patalano has focused on both the SMB and the Enterprise throughout his career.

He has been a featured speaker in a number of publications including Health Management Technology, Wall Street Technology Magazine, Police Magazine, Security Magazine, Remote Site Magazine, and Computer Telephony. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management Information Systems from Northeastern University in Boston.