Birmingham Women and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

CASE STUDY

APT AND SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC DEPLOY ECOSTRUXURE IT AT BIRMINGHAM NHS TRUST

Birmingham Women and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Women and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust deploy EcoStruxure IT Expert to monitor their expanding distributed IT estate.

Increasing dependence upon IT systems to deliver healthcare services to 140,000 women, men, children and young people means availability and uptime are mission critical at Birmingham Women and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. The installation of EcoStruxure IT Expert has helped the Trust take a major step forward in the assured delivery of services.

Continuous uptime is the top priority for the Trust’s IT department. Any impairment to the IT systems running patient-management or clinical applications inevitably impacts the delivery of treatment to patients.

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Providing increased resilience

“We’ve got this great tool now from a leading vendor and that gives us great peace of mind, and we are trying to get the most benefit out of it”

Jas Purewal, IT infrastructure Manager, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Goal

Increase the resilience of the IT Estate!

Ensure issues are detected immediately!

Provide continuous data driven support!

Story

The Trust needed a better system for monitoring key infrastructure such as UPS systems, and it engaged APT to assist with the task.

Solution

APT recommended the installation of EcoStruxure IT Expert, Schneider Electric’s next-generation data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) software to monitor and manage their distributed IT estate.

Results

EcoStruxure highlights any areas of weakness in the back up systems and allows the hospital to act before previsions are required. ITE provides a PMV every 5 minutes!