COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hospitals and health networks have spent the past several years adjusting to the introduction and proliferation of electronic health records (EHR) and building up their IT infrastructure to support and leverage EHR use. There are other parts of the hospital IT network, however, that are often overlooked. Vertiv experts identified three such areas where today’s hospitals can benefit from increased attention to and investment in their IT infrastructure.

“Hospitals generally are doing a nice job in terms of updating their IT systems and infrastructure to support EHR use, and they traditionally have prioritized larger, industrial uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems to ensure the availability of critical systems,” said Angie McMillin, vice president of business initiatives at Vertiv. “However, we consistently see gaps in some areas that have the potential to create real problems not just for hospitals, but for patients.”