TA2607

Meditech Virtualization - HCA.s Story of Virtualizing This Critical Hospital Application Suite

HCA has recently virtualized their Meditech hospital patient care systems. This effort has taken the core clinical application set and reduced its physical footprint from 1100 servers to 160 servers. The Meditech system is the critical enterprise suite that provides for the direct care and safety of patients in over 165 HCA hospitals around the United States. HCA's journey to virtualize Meditech began several years ago and is seen as a major milestone in the healthcare IT arena. This break out session will discuss what drove HCA to explore virtualization; cost savings of going virtual; the process of developing the virtualized environment; and what a virtualized Meditech MAGIC environment consists of.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Cheryl Eagan( VMware,Inc. ), Blane Clark( HCA, Inc. ), Bill Fitzgerald( HCA, Inc. )

Cheryl Eagan is a VMware Technical Account Manager in the Professional Services organization. Cheryl has over 20 years in the industry. Prior to VMware, Cheryl worked as a Technical Account Manager in Premier Support Services at Microsoft, Sales Engineering at Apple Computer and Sales Training at Lotus Development. Cheryl has immense knowledge of VMware's largest enterprise customers as well as the challenges they face.

Mr. Clark began his IT career as an Army Signal Corps Officer, managing and designing military communications networks. After the military he designed and developed Military Intelligence software systems and networks. His career at HCA began 2 years ago as a systems engineer in the Meditech group. He is currently the Director of Meditech Systems for HCA, which is headquartered in Nashville, TN

Mr. Fitzgerald began his IT career in the US Marine Corps, where he specialized in the design and development of data communications system. He has held a wide range of technical and management positions within large healthcare organizations. Bill currently directs the delivery of technical engineering, certification and software management for HCA, Inc., which is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.