The Telehealth Revolution: The Impact on Healthcare Network Closets
Vertiv Healthcare Webinar Series
July 28, 2020
Ensuring Power Continuity in Telehealth and Healthcare Closets
Duration: 55 minutes
View Webcast On DemandHealthcare distributed infrastructure was already being forced to adapt to the surge in data resulting from digitalization when the global pandemic spiked telehealth services. This spike is expected to translate into sustained long-term growth for telehealth services, putting additional stress on IT infrastructure.
Outdated critical power infrastructure can expose the network to unexpected downtime and frequent maintenance challenges. In this webinar, the first in the series, we’ll review how digitalization and telehealth are impacting network closets and present best practices for sizing, configuring and monitoring critical power systems within the hospital and across extended delivery networks.
This webinar will highlight the experience of one hospital system in addressing power challenges and also cover the following topics:
- The anticipated impact of telehealth on distributed infrastructure
- Ensuring power protection is matched to equipment capacity and criticality requirements
- Choosing between Lithium Ion and VRLA batteries
- Sizing the UPS system and determining battery runtimes
- Strategies for enabling remote monitoring of critical power systems
Speakers
Mitzi Amon
Healthcare Marketing Director
Vertiv
Mitzi is the Director of Healthcare Marketing at Vertiv. Her focus is on everything healthcare. From researching the latest trends in the market, to understanding the challenges faced by leading healthcare providers, payers, and vendors, her goal is to inspire conversations and build a collaborative environment where ideas are shared and solutions are created to help you stay ahead of what’s next. She have more than 20 years of experience in helping customers in healthcare, industrial and commercial environments optimize their operations.
Jeremy Ruff
Global Offerings Manager, Single Phase UPS
Vertiv
Jeremy Ruff is the Global Offering Specialist for Single-Phase UPS at Vertiv. He has been with Vertiv since 2017, and started in thermal management. Jeremy is responsible for the Vertiv single-phase UPS portfolio of products and accessories. This includes analysis of market trends, researching customer needs, demand drivers, and industry trends, competitive analysis and benchmarking, go-to-market strategy, and supporting all other related market deliverables. Prior to joining Vertiv, Jeremy worked in R&D as a guest engineer for Honda where he led several design projects. Jeremy attended Ohio University where he received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He will complete his master’s degree in business administration from Ohio University in August 2020.
Rack and Power Distribution Strategies for Expanding Healthcare Network Closets
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2020
Time: 01:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour
View Webcast On DemandWith the recent surge of telehealth services, many healthcare IT systems are feeling the strain. As you add more network gear, servers and storage to keep up with the growing demand, challenges of space limitation and cable management may become more severe. Equipment rack selection and configuration can improve space utilization and cable management while rack PDUs can do much more than provide outlets for IT equipment.
In this webinar, we’ll review the various options available for these underappreciated but important components of network closet infrastructure and share how these systems are being used in healthcare systems today. The webinar will also highlight how factory integration of rack systems with power and cooling infrastructure can speed deployment. Key topics covered include:
- Selecting the right rack system for small spaces
- Best practices in cable management
- Using PDUs to monitor closet energy consumption and simplify closet management
- Understanding universal PDUs and how they simplify closet configuration
- The value of integrated systems
Speakers
Mitzi Amon
Healthcare Marketing Director
Vertiv
Mitzi is the Director of Healthcare Marketing at Vertiv. Her focus is on everything healthcare. From researching the latest trends in the market, to understanding the challenges faced by leading healthcare providers, payers, and vendors, her goal is to inspire conversations and build a collaborative environment where ideas are shared and solutions are created to help you stay ahead of what’s next. She have more than 20 years of experience in helping customers in healthcare, industrial and commercial environments optimize their operations.
Mo Sheikh
Offering Manager, Rack Power Distribution Units
Vertiv
As a Vertiv offering manager for rack power distribution units (rPDUs), Mo is responsible for driving the product marketing strategy and supporting global business development. A graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, he has over a decade of experience working in the data center industry. Mo is passionate about understanding customer needs by exploring new applications and key pain points in order to deliver innovative solutions and unsurpassed customer satisfaction.
Nick Fontana
Offering Specialist - Global Rack
Vertiv
Nick is an Offering Specialist in the Global Rack Line of Business at Vertiv. He is in charge of managing product roadmaps for global rack and containment offerings.
Ensuring Power Continuity in Telehealth and Healthcare Closets
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Time: 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour
View Webcast On DemandWhen they were first deployed, most healthcare closets could operate without dedicated cooling. But digitalization and telehealth are requiring these locations to support more powerful computing, network and telecommunications equipment. With more equipment comes more heat, potentially shortening equipment life and increasing the risk of downtime.
This webinar will review how new technology is driving up heat in network closets and present share the story of how one hospital system solved its distributed cooling challenge. Key topics covered include:
- Typical heat loads for healthcare network closets
- Risks associated with relying on building air
- Strategies for improving airflow in small spaces
- Heat removal strategies for network closets
- Small space IT cooling solutions
Speakers
Mitzi Amon
Healthcare Marketing Director
Vertiv
Mitzi is the Director of Healthcare Marketing at Vertiv. Her focus is on everything healthcare. From researching the latest trends in the market, to understanding the challenges faced by leading healthcare providers, payers, and vendors, her goal is to inspire conversations and build a collaborative environment where ideas are shared and solutions are created to help you stay ahead of what’s next. She have more than 20 years of experience in helping customers in healthcare, industrial and commercial environments optimize their operations.
Michal Podmaka
Global Offering Manager for Edge Thermal Systems
Vertiv
Michal is an experienced product manager with strong technical background in data center cooling. During his 16 years with Vertiv (previously Emerson Network Power) he has been helping customers to address their cooling challenges as Application Engineer and Product/Offering Manager in EMEA region, later extending his responsibility globally. He has also experience with strategic marketing and sales.
Michal is based in Slovakia where he also obtained his master’s degree in heating, ventilation and cooling from Slovak University of Technology.
Ensuring Power Continuity in Telehealth and Healthcare Closets
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Time: 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour
View Webcast On DemandDigitalization and the rapid growth of telehealth are increasing the criticality of healthcare IT and network closets—and putting new demands on IT staff. Manually monitoring distributed IT equipment can be time-consuming and lead to delays in recognizing potential problems that can lead to downtime.
In this webinar, the fourth and final in the series, Vertiv experts will introduce various technologies for enabling remote monitoring of distributed infrastructure in healthcare and share a case study of remote monitoring in healthcare. Key topics covered include:
- The data available from closet infrastructure systems
- Hardware requirements to enable remote monitoring
- Integrating closet infrastructure into the building management system
- Free software tools available for remote monitoring
- Best practices for maintaining distributed IT and closet infrastructure
Speakers
Mitzi Amon
Healthcare Marketing Director
Vertiv
Mitzi is the Director of Healthcare Marketing at Vertiv. Her focus is on everything healthcare. From researching the latest trends in the market, to understanding the challenges faced by leading healthcare providers, payers, and vendors, her goal is to inspire conversations and build a collaborative environment where ideas are shared and solutions are created to help you stay ahead of what’s next. She have more than 20 years of experience in helping customers in healthcare, industrial and commercial environments optimize their operations.
Matt "Griff" Keller
Offering Specialist, Gateways and Sensors
Vertiv
Matt Keller specializes in gateway and sensor solutions used for the monitoring and management of critical facilities. As an offering specialist for Vertiv, he is responsible for strengthening relationships with customers, partners, and regional sales teams for business development. Keller joined Vertiv in 2018 as part of the Geist acquisition. He has more than 13 years of experience in the areas of inventory management, customer service, and sales. Keller holds a bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University where he also honed his training and development skills working as a teaching assistant.
