Business Chief USA August 2020

AltaMed Health Services
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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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