HCL Technologies to provide healthcare IT infrastructure

28 February 2007

Mumbai: HCL Technologies Ltd will demonstrate its healthcare technologies at the HIMSS annual conference in New Orleans this week. The company will demonstrate how its healthcare IT service help independent software vendors (ISVs) and hospitals improve overall patient care and achieve significant cost savings, the company said in a filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

As IT requirements become more complex, healthcare providers are reaching out to specialist organisations to help manage their technology assets, HCL pointed out.

A core component of the company''s healthcare offering is its business ready infrastructure (BRI) that combines certified on-demand application infrastructures with the company''s offshore-based services in a predictable, pay-per-use, multi-year service model.

This, HCL said, is a cost-effective approach to addressing IT infrastructure investment and upgrade requirements, whereby providers eliminate the need buy their own licences or infrastructure components. Instead, HCL purchases the licences, host the software on its own IT infrastructure, and securely offers the service remotely to providers on a pay- per-use model.

"With BRI, HCL has the unique ability to offer healthcare providers a way to keep technology infrastructure costs down, utilising our integrated, multi-service offering of infrastructure management services, business process outsourcing (BPO) and applications delivery," said Pradep Nair, head, global life sciences and healthcare practice of the company.

"By providing ready, repeatable technology solutions built on a platform of strong security and compliance, customers gain a much needed competitive advantage as they work to achieve profitability in today''s challenging healthcare services market" he added.