Optimised Desktops and Devices

Increasing productivity, enhancing security and simplifying application and resource management.

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In a fast-paced world where mobility and flexibility are critical, health organisations are looking for technology solutions to help their employees, partners and citizens or patients be more productive. At the same time, organisations need to provide their information and communications technology (ICT) professionals with the level of control, manageability and security they need.

"We now have an operating system that's fast and reliable and that puts us on the leading edge with respect to its support life cycle."

Rick Aherne, Project Manager

Partners HealthCare

The Microsoft Optimised Desktops and Devices offering provides a seamless anywhere experience, simplified application management and effective support for your users while helping to lower your ICT costs. It also helps you manage your information security and privacy risks by enabling compliance with internal policies and industry regulations and helping to protect client resources.

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With the Optimised Desktops and Devices offering, you can:

  • Empower users and increase productivity. You can provide care professionals, administrators, patients and citizens with efficient and security-enhanced access to information, applications and people from virtually anywhere. This enables them to be more productive and provide citizen and patient-centric care where and when it is needed. It also helps patients and citizens more easily get the information they need - whether from their desktop or from one of their mobile devices - to make timely health and wellness decisions.

  • Enhance security and control. With centralised management of desktops and devices and a common identity infrastructure, you can better manage security and privacy risks. You can more consistently enforce compliance with industry regulations and organisational policies through improved control and auditing of data and application access.

  • Simplify application and resource management. With a single view across environments, desktops and devices (and across the applications and services deployed on them), your ICT professionals can more proactively and efficiently secure, plan, deploy and manage your complete ICT infrastructure. Common and familiar tools for deploying, configuring, monitoring and reporting across different environments help you more easily run a complex system and keep it up to date.

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