Today, the average hospital network runs more than 300 applications Patient data is scattered across disparate systems in public and private entities. It can be difficult and costly for healthcare professionals to share vital medical, clinical, and patient information.

Healthcare institutions and practitioners need an intelligent network that listens, and responds, with open interfaces, This will help them improve network security, simplicity, reliability, and innovation at an unprecedented scale. The Internet of Everything also demands an intelligent network. It calls for a distributed, application-centric networking, computing, and storage platform that connects things in ways that just weren’t possible before.

The Medical-Grade Network (MGN), which is based on a set of best practices and guiding principles, provides the network foundation that helps enable reliable, seamless, and highly secure health data communications across the healthcare community. It supports:

• Efficient communications among clinicians, patients, administrators, and partners

• Regulatory requirements for patient privacy and data security

• The unique information, technology, bandwidth, and integration challenges of healthcare

• Anytime, anywhere information capture and access for wired and wireless applications and devices

• Converged data, voice, and video networks

• Identity and policy-based security from inside the network to beyond organizational walls

• Transfer and storage of the large amounts of data created by healthcare applications