Citrix Solutions Provide Employees at The Watershed with Greater Mobility and Quicker Access to Crucial Patient Data
September 14 2016 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
Desktop Login Time Reduced from Two Minutes to
15 Seconds
Behavioral health disorders including drug addiction and
alcoholism affect over 20 million people in the United States.
Addiction treatment centers ensure a long-term chance at sobriety
by providing high-quality inpatient and outpatient drug and alcohol
addiction treatment and counseling services. The Watershed in
Delray Beach, Florida, a leading drug addiction treatment provider
that employs more than 600 personnel across five inpatient and
partial hospitalization facilities in Florida and Texas, depends on
Citrix virtual desktops, networking and VoIP applications to make
it easier for staff to help patients.
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A common scenario for quickly and calmly
admitting the patient into the facility within the first hour of
arrival with all staff using the same desktop. (Graphic: Business
Wire)
Citrix Workspace Suite with NetScaler ADC and NetScaler SD-WAN
has revolutionized the workday for healthcare staff by giving them
greater mobility and quicker access to crucial patient data,
whether they choose to work from home or one of the office
locations. By reducing the time needed to enter essential
information into systems, staff are better able to care for
patients and in a timelier manner. For example, Citrix solutions
have addressed one of the most common frustrations in healthcare by
reducing the login time on a shared desktop workstation from
roughly two minutes to 15 seconds for the initial login, and only
five seconds for every login thereafter. This equates to having
more time to help patients, a huge value to both healthcare staff
and patients.
A primary example takes place at the Admissions Suite in the
Florida facility where there are many employees involved in the
initial admission of a patient who is often in distress. The
following describes a common scenario for quickly and calmly
admitting the patient into the facility within the first hour of
arrival with all staff using the same desktop:
1. A paramedic walks in with the patient, enters patient basic
stats into the system
2. A nurse takes the patient’s vital signs and basic health
information
3. The patient advocate reviews financial counseling guidelines
and patient rights
Citrix solutions deliver the secure access that is different for
each staff role accessing their account from the shared desktop,
and still cuts the login time dramatically, simplifying the
admission process for a troubled patient.
While there are many benefits to patients, the day-to-day
benefits to staff of The Watershed are numerable as well. The
Watershed needed a way to securely and cost-effectively maintain
connections for all its medical personnel such as doctors and
nurses, as well as employees in its call centers. The Watershed
chose Citrix solutions for secure, always-on connectivity for all
employees in every location. This comprehensive Citrix networking
solution allowed The Watershed to centralize patient and
administrative data and leverage new applications to improve
overall patient care. Further, the company can now make updates to
its remote facilities from its Florida headquarters with no issues,
while the NetScaler SD-WAN platform enables The Watershed to
proactively monitor the health and performance of application
delivery across its WAN. This further allows for location-agnostic
access for employees, which was previously a barrier. Now employees
truly feel the freedom to embrace mobility and work from anywhere,
whether it’s a home or another office location, because they trust
that they can securely and consistently access crucial patient
data.
Quotes
Whit Baker, IT Director, The Watershed
“Knowing that I have Citrix solutions powering our organization
gives me the confidence that our IT team is helping drive the
organization’s mission of offering the best possible patient care.
Something as simple as login efficiency has made life so much
easier for our staff and they come to me often saying how much they
love this change. We’ve made their life more efficient, which
allows them to interact more with a patient going through a very
difficult time. It is very satisfying to know that the work my team
is doing behind the scenes every day with technology is making a
direct impact on improving patient care.”
Trevor McCain, Network Administrator, The Watershed
“The outside world is our biggest security challenge. Citrix
NetScaler is the gatekeeper that helps us protect our network and
our patient data. We were interested in the NetScaler SD-WAN
because along with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, it gave us a full
end-to-end solution from a single vendor. The benefit of having
SD-WAN with NetScaler is the always-on connectivity created by
bonding disparate WAN links. SD-WAN means no downtime, something no
other competitor is offering.”
Related Links
- Video: Trevor McCain, The
Watershed
- Security Podcast: Whit Baker, The
Watershed
- Case Study: The Watershed
- NetScaler SD-WAN Product Page
- The Watershed Company Page
Follow Citrix
- Twitter: @Citrix, @WatershedCares
- Facebook: Citrix, Watershed
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