students with the flexibility to work from technology allows up to 8 to 16 concurrent
anywhere, on any device through a virtual users to share one GPU. With this
desktop infrastructure (VDI). VDI has the configuration, rCloud can support up to 96
potential to let students grow comfortable to 192 concurrent graphics users. RWU
with real-world practices, and to eliminate architecture students now have the ability
cumbersome desktops from the architecture to access graphic-intensive applications like
lab, freeing up more space for classrooms. AutoCAD outside the lab — and see the same
However, the biggest hurdle in RWU’s
high level of performance on any device.
transition to a virtual desktop infrastructure Approximately 1,000 RWU students (about was the ability to effectively provide access to a quarter of the student body) currently the graphic-rich applications that its students have access to rCloud, with varying levels of require, such as Autodesk’s AutoCAD ® and graphics power allotted based on their area of Revit ® , and Adobe ® Creative Suite ® 6. study. After achieving great success with the essential to drive huge improvements in patient To accomplish this, an extraordinary amount
new VDI in the architecture program, RWU safety and outcomes while reducing waste of data needs to be shared among numerous
is now in the process of rolling out rCloud to and errors. providers. For example, on average, individual
“During our initial VDI testing, we were seeing
numerous problems with solutions that didn’t
work well with the intense graphics and video
environment that an architecture department
needs,” explained James Galib, IT Director at
other departments as well, beginning with
engineering. The ultimate goal is to make it
accessible to all students.
Enter The Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI).
RIQI’s mission is to significantly improve the
quality, safety and value of healthcare with
Roger Williams University. “As soon as we had what they call a “Triple Aim”: better health,
more than 8-10 people connected, the frame better care, better costs. Its CurrentCare
rates in 3D renderings would go way down and
get jumpy. The software applications became
very clunky to use and students weren’t able
— 2015
Life or Death Data
Exchange
to maintain a good project flow. It just wasn’t
program is the sole Rhode Island statewide
health information exchange (HIE), whose
purpose is to aid RI in achieving Triple Aim
and help providers succeed under value-based
primary care providers interact with 229
physicians and 17 different practices to
coordinate care for their patients. CurrentCare
is building a complete clinical record across
geographic, proprietary and payer boundaries.
It serves as a single repository for electronic
medical records that can be accessed by pa-
tients and their providers anywhere, anytime
they need them. This will significantly reduce
miscommunications and resulting errors,
conducive to architecture work at all,” added “The only thing that is constant is change,” payment models that support system Ryan Tiebout, Systems Operations Manager said the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. transformation. Not to be confused with the at Roger Williams University. Nowhere is this a more glaring fact of life than state’s Insurance Healthcare Exchange, RIQI’s In order to facilitate a virtual desktop in our nation’s healthcare system. Costs are out CurrentCare HIE is about patient records. infrastructure robust enough to support of control and yet, we are all at risk – especially Years in development and a leading national these high-powered applications, RWU those over the age of 65 – for complications model, CurrentCare is beginning to positively implemented a custom VDI system dubbed and death caused by adverse drug interactions impact coordination of care in Rhode Island, a Data is important in all of modern life, of
“rCloud” featuring Dell EqualLogic storage, or unnecessary hospitalizations. Think of it; change that will have a profound impact on the course, but it’s hard to imagine any application
Dell PowerConnect™ switching, and Dell our healthcare system is the #1 contributor state’s healthcare system. For example, we are where it is more critical than in health care –
PowerEdge servers running a total of 12 to sickness and death in the US! A reliable, now seeing 13% lower readmission rates for literally life or death hanging in the balance
NVIDIA GRID™ K2 boards through Citrix integrated information network coupled with participating patients reinforcing the higher with this kind of critical information instantly
XenServer 7. NVIDIA’s GRID vGPU™ the emerging science of big data analytics is quality care, lower cost mission. accessible to those who need it. With RIQI’s
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as well as costly waste and duplication.
Pharmacies, doctors’ offices, hospitals,
insurance providers, other tertiary care
providers and the patient themselves are
all connected.
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