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Collaboration

Collaboration Case Study: Sutter Health


Health System Improves Patient Experience

Challenge:
Simplify management of regional communications systems for more effective collaboration among mobile clinical staff.


Solutions:
Cisco Unified Communications Manager cluster, Unified Wireless Network and Wireless IP Phones, and TelePresence.


Results:

  • Reduced patient waiting room time from 20 minutes to a few minutes.
  • Enabled clinicians to connect anytime, anywhere in a single facility.
  • Built foundation for advanced collaboration capabilities to reduce costs.


Cisco's solutions support the more than 40,000 phones across our health system and enable our IS team to centrally administer a complex dial plan.
- Kevin Sansom, Network Engineering Supervisor, Sutter Health