BronxCare is the largest voluntary, not-for-profit health and teaching hospital system serving the South and Central Bronx, New York, US, servicing more than one million outpatients and 141,000 emergency visits each year.
BronxCare’s operating model was centered on shared IT infrastructure and systems with another healthcare provider, that were in turn managed by a third-party service provider. This impacted their time-to-market and their ability to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives.
BronxCare was looking for a rapid technology transformation solution to address their immediate need to transition their infrastructure management services and bring overall TCO down. This would, in turn, also help improve quality of care, provider-patient experience and overall patient satisfaction.
As a technology partner of choice for over 10 years, GAVS’ approach was to assess, plan, design, and implement scalable and secure Digital Transformation solutions aligned with BronxCare’s strategic objectives.
Project Implementation
1. AI-enabled 24x7 IT managed support driven by SLAs & outcomes across:
• Service Desk Support, Desk Side Support
• Server Infrastructure Design, Deployment, Management
• Network Infrastructure Design, Deployment, Management
• Data Center Management Security Operations
• Clinical Application Support Application Development & Support
• Managed Print Services
2. Digitalization and Cloud Transformation
• IT infrastructure services provisioned through Data Center as a Service (DCaaS), and other infrastructure components consolidated through ‘as-a-service’ offerings, by leveraging our hyper converged infrastructure solution
• Traditional desktops replaced by Desktop as a Service (DaaS) provided to enhance caregiver-patient interactions by implementing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) using GAVS’ zDesk platform. With zero-layer architecture, software-defined networking, in-built hardware acceleration, and full-fledged hypervisor, zDesk is a high performing solution.
• SaaS/IaaS
3. Data Centre migrated to a co-located space in 6 weeks and Data center footprint consolidated by formulating and implementing a well-defined server virtualization strategy
4. An organization wide network revamp executed, and optimized solution provided to improve bandwidth utilization and availability, while reducing costs
5. Single pane of glass executive dashboard deployed to monitor applications and infra across locations through GAVS’ proprietary AIOps platform, ZIFTM
6. ITIL V3 compliant 24x7 service desk deployed, focused on enabling faster response/resolution of incidents, while driving cost reduction and shift left through our proprietary automation platform
7. Effective management of service requests/calls through streamlined incident management
8. Knowledge Management System implemented, and routine refresh & update processes enabled
Outcomes of the Project
• 40% reduction in IT operations costs
• Upto 5x improved end-user experience through 99.99% available and reliable systems
• GAVS’ AI-powered VDI solution zDesk resulted in –
o 25% increase in provider-patient interaction
o Secure anytime/anywhere access to sensitive healthcare data through zDesk-enabled ‘Follow Me Desktops’
o Reduction of end-point procurement cost by 90%
• Prediction of events/incidents prior to occurrence helped prevent major outages and 80% Reduction in P1 incidents
• 40% improvement in Time to Market (TTM)
“We expected cost efficiency and savings and we achieved that. What we were pleasantly surprised with was the high quality implementation effort as well as the tremendous flexibility that GAVS Technologies brought to the table.” – Ivan Durbak, CIO, BronxCare Health System
Digital Transformation & Operational Excellence Industry Awards 2021