Business Chief US+CAN Magazine August 2020 | Page 127

AltaMed Health Services
AltaMed Health Services
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129 implementing cyber solutions to address threats that arise with increased remote working and telehealth solutions . The company has further been able to extend meeting services so remote workers can collaborate seamlessly regardless of location and the number of attendees . As well as managing televisits and increased traffic to their patient portal , they ’ ve deployed the Epic electronic medical record system , a new managed care software solution .
Virtualization has also been a key element . “ We ’ ve been able to make our data centre to UTI tier III , and we ’ ve added 350 new virtual machines and 33 hosts in the last two years within the VMware environment ,” Lowe explains .
To upgrade its network and cybersecurity AltaMed has relied heavily upon its partners . Lowe explains that there was technical debt when he first joined , and he needed to bring the corporation to an enterprise class . “ Fortunately I have a good partner network with Cisco and Presidio , having worked with them previously at Dignity Health , and Red8 is an
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