NComputing N-series for Healthcare User Manual

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Cost-Eectively Expanding
Healthcare Delivery at Point
of Care (PoC) with NComputing’s
N-series in Citrix® Healthcare
HDX Environments

Certied Citrix and Imprivata® Ready

Challenges in healthcare delivery

Role-based, secure and high performance access to medical ap­plications and patient information when and where it is needed is
critical to improving patient care–maybe even saving lives.

Today, healthcare organizations are asking IT to improve the
eciency of medical care delivery and streamline access to
clinical applications and medical records, while maintaining
high levels of security to protect patient privacy and meet
compliance requirements.

At the same time, IT must reduce infrastructure and administration
costs, while utilizing existing operating systems and networks.

One of the key decisions for healthcare organizations is what solu­tion to deploy to ensure that doctors, nurses, clinical and support
sta have secure access to appropriate data and applications
at the point of care (PoC)—hospitals, satellite clinics, labs and
doctors’ oces.

Rather than use traditional dedicated PCs and PC-based applica­tions for every user, many healthcare providers are using Citrix
desktop virtualization solutions and NComputing’s N-series Citrix
Ready HDX
ed with Imprivata
nurses and other sta with highly cost-eective, secure and exible
access to all required applications and information.

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Veried System on Chip (SoC) Thin Client devices certi-

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OneSign® Single Sign-On to provide doctors,

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NComputing’s N-series devices: cost-eective,
secure user access

N-series thin client devices for Citrix healthcare customers
dramatically lower the cost and complexity associated with
delivering a rich HDX-based multimedia experience without
compromising performance.

Purpose-built, optimized and certied exclusively for Citrix HDX,
N-series devices deliver a complete HDX experience at approxi­mately one-third the cost of typical HDX-capable PCs and tradi­tional thin client devices. The low acquisition cost frees up budget
for other IT and business-critical priorities associated with desktop

virtualization and specically Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
(VDI) deployments.

Powered by NComputing’s own third-generation SoC, Numo
built on the ecient ARM Cortex A9, N-series devices support and
simplify Citrix XenDesktop
application virtualization deployments with full HD video while
using less than 5 watts of power. The dual core design also delivers
superior multi-tasking performance when many applications are
running at the same time.

N-series devices are optimized to deliver HDX-based video content
across all applications and application types in virtualized environ­ments. They also provide specic optimizations for packet pro­cessing and encryption—ensuring minimal network impact with
maximum network security—as well as oer exible deployment
with wired or wireless LANs.

With vSpace Management Center, IT can deploy and manage all
of your N-series devices from a single web-based management
interface. With the ability to create and manage prole groups,
management of N-series devices is highly ecient.

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, XenApp® and VDI-In-Box™ desktop and

N-series healthcare use cases

N-series devices can be used at nursing workstations, at point of
care, within records management and across the entire workow of
patients and providers.

Built to eliminate moving parts such as fans and disk drives,
N-series devices are quiet and without heat dissipation, thus im­proving sanitary standards in healthcare settings.
Dust, clinical waste and cleaning uids cannot
enter the N-series devices unlike PCs that have less
reliability due to these factors. With no PC operat­ing system to corrupt and no need for virus pro­tection, these secure endpoints are built to avoid
disruptions in service. As a result of this reliability,
the life of the N-series devices is far longer at six to
eight years than the three-to-four year lifespan of
PC-based solutions.

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Improving Healthcare Delivery with
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Improving Healthcare Delivery with
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N-series devices enable role-based, secure access for doctors,
nurses and other sta to easily log in to patient records, lab results
and clinical applications, as well as personalized desktops. These
healthcare use cases include:

n Point of care solutions with a combination of xed or roaming

stations

n Improving clinician workows and sta experiences

n Improving medical records security, accuracy and

administration

View PoC applications in xed or roaming locations—N-series
devices are architected to be valuable in a variety of use cases

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and locations. Point-of-care applications can include lab order
visualization and results, critical decision support and medical
image viewing, as well as managing and tracking patient status.
Some locations may be xed, either at the patient bedside or
a nurse’s station while others need to be on a mobile cart for
roaming purposes.

With both xed and wireless models available and 4 USB 2.0 ports
for appropriate peripherals such as a USB keyboard and mouse and
proximity card reader, N-series devices are a core part of a medical
infrastructure involving xed stations, mounted access and
mobile carts.

ManagementThin Clients

LAN

Citrix Infrastructure

Citrix XenDesktop
with FlexCast
(includes XenApp)

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Wireless

Proximity

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Support any workow, any application—With support for

user authentication and proximity cards within a Citrix session,
N-series devices can support any workow and any medical
application required.

n Shared workstations—Since practitioners are often moving

rapidly through a facility, they need the ability to quickly
update status or place orders from a workstation or medical
cart. With N-series devices as a xed or roaming endpoints
and leveraging Imprivata OneSign Single Sign-On with
authentication and Tap In Tap Out capabilities, users can use
any workstation or mobile cart and log in in seconds rather

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n Persistent application session from one station to another—

As medical sta move among N-series-enabled stations,
N-series devices and Citrix infrastructure support session
roaming with persistent access

n High performance for data- and graphics-intensive

applications to support medical imaging—N-series devices
are architected to provide the highest levels of performance
needed for viewing medical imagery and crunching the
largest data sets. This design results in the highest levels of
workow eciency at the point of care for even the most
demanding visual applications

Citrix
VDI-in-a-Box

than utilize a full PC login/logout sequence, saving hours of
time on a daily basis

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Improving Healthcare Delivery with
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Enable highly secure acess to medical records and hospital systems— N-series devices
are the nal piece in a highly secure and compliant IT infrastructure. N-series devices can
uniquely support encrypted SSL sessions with the appropriate performance and response
times. N-series devices are built for security.

n Oer no independent storage and can be locked down to prevent USB access.

Records are available only to approved sta without compromising the ability to
perform services quickly and eectively

n Minimize exposure to security or data leakage since they have a very small attack

surface and support a full set of encryption capabilities. With a fully embedded
operating system, the devices require full authentication for changes to any
management or congurations

N-series thin client device benets

The advantages of using the N-series thin client devices rather than traditional
PCs are compelling.

n Reduced cost and green

n Flexible, secure deployment and mobility

n Improved performance

n Sterile and reliable

n Simplied web-based management

Why NComputing

NComputing accelerates the adoption of
desktop virtualization through a unique
formula of simplicity, performance and
value. NComputing serves more than
50,000 businesses across 140 plus countries
worldwide with a focus on education,
healthcare, manufacturing, nancial
services and government markets.

NComputing markets and sells its port­folio of desktop virtualization oerings
via a worldwide network of over 1600
value-added reseller and channel partners
delivering complete solutions to their
customers. NComputing maintains strate­gic global alliance partnerships with key
technology providers to the desktop virtu­alization market, such as Citrix, Imprivata
and Microsoft. Global sales oces support
customers and partners in North and
South America, Europe, India, and the Asia
Pacic region.

Support and Subscriptions

NComputing’s Support and Subscription
services provide customers of vSpace
Management Center for N-series access to
regular software updates and upgrades,
online web resources and direct access to
dedicated N-series and vSpace Manage­ment Center support engineers. To activate
your service, click here:

http://www.ncomputing.com/support/
activate

Availability

NComputing’s N-series thin client device
is available through a global network of
partners:

http://www.ncomputing.com/partners/nd

For more Information

For more information on NComputing’s
N-series thin client device, please visit:

http://www.ncomputing.com/products/
nseries

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