Case Study St. Luke's Healthcare System

Case Study ST. LUKES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM Name Institution Date LUKES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM Introduction Most healthcare organizations including St. Luke are shifting to technological solutions to enhance efficiency, customer satisfaction and user experience. St. Luke Hospital uses technology for diagnosing patients and charting their progress, case management, blood management, Mobile x-ray and neurologic units and critical care unit among other critical functions. St. Luke adopted a wireless network to enable doctors and nurses to move with their laptops and tablet PCs to different places within the institution to attain maximum use of technology. However, the organization has faced challenges in its network such as dropping sessions when users of mobile devices go in regions with poor coverage, network security and compliance with the HIPAA regulations. To deal with the challenge, the hospital implemented the Mobility XE. Benefits of deploying Mobility XE St. Luke uses Mobility XE to improve the security of the wireless networks and enhances compliance with the HIPAA laws. The application encrypts data moving between the devices and the server. It also acts as a firewall by blocking devices that are not identified by the application. Secondly, Mobility XE resolves the problem of dropped session. Most users of the