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The Cisco Medical-Grade Network: Transforming Healthcare

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Overview The healthcare industry is undergoing a transformation. Faced with mounting pressures to reduce costs while improving the overall quality of care, healthcare organizations worldwide are increasingly turning to information technology to help address business and technical challenges. The Cisco Medical-Grade Network framework is a network design optimized for the healthcare environment, providing the foundation required to create a connected healthcare ecosystem. By providing an industry-specific framework that maps clinical and business needs to technology solutions, the Cisco Medical-Grade Network meets healthcare's unique needs for interoperability, security, availability, productivity, and flexibility.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2007	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Network Design

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