The healthcare arena including education, research, administration and patient care has made significant improvements over the years. Despite the advancements, there continue to be challenges such as rising costs, worker shortages, obstacles in accessing medical services, safety and quality issues. The healthcare industry has reached a point, where it needs to decide how services could be delivered more effectively to reduce cost, improve quality and extend reach.

New communications technologies are available to help. Nortel is a leader in healthcare, collaborating with partners and customers to meet vital technology requirements of healthcare customers. Nortel is shaping the future of patient care by providing increased bandwidth with converged networking solutions to healthcare facilities.

Featured Products & Solutions:

Ethernet Switching
Ethernet switching provides the speed, performance, bandwidth, and flexibility required for today's enterprise networks, offering a simplified architecture that can increase network reliability, deliver exponential growth in bandwidth, while delivering competitive advantage.

IP Telephony
Nortel's portfolio of telephony and converged IP telephony solutions deliver seamless, scalable real-time business communications with unprecedented flexibility in telephony applications deployment to meet our customer's environment, expectations, timetable and budget.

Multimedia Services for Enterprises
A portfolio for Enterprises that provides a new era of multimedia services enabling with mobility, collaboration, personalized applications.

Optical Network Solutions
Specializing in designing and building optical networks for both service providers and their enterprise customers, Nortel leads the industry with more than 315,000 optical network elements deployed in more than 1,000 customer networks in 65 countries.

Security Solutions
Nortel Security Solutions are designed with the total network in mind—for resilience, optimum performance, ease of management and scalability. Our Enterprise and Carrier portfolios of Security Solutions provide integrated firewall functionality and management capabilities, scalability and ease-of-provisioning, and the top-rated security consulting team in the industry.

• Collaborative Services — Nortel Multimedia Collaborative Services lets institutions deliver virtual healthcare services (e.g., telemedicine, teleconsultation), and communicate and collaborate anytime, anywhere using a device of their choice.
• Mobility in Healthcare — Nortel WLAN solutions for healthcare provide secure voice and data networking environments in support of various healthcare applications (e.g. point of care, computerized physician order entry), featuring true mobility across the campus and strong encryption to protect the network.
• Optical Solutions — Nortel Optical Networking Solutions deliver high performance networking, business continuity and disaster recovery, and network convergence solutions ensuring the resiliency, availability and efficiency of the healthcare network.
• Secure Connectivity — Nortel provides Secure Connectivity Solutions that are designed to ensure that all aspects of the network environment are secured - with attention to performance and scalability so that network applications don't have to suffer when security is added.
• High-Performance Networking — Nortel High-Performance Networking Solutions are comprised of three complimentary solutions: high-performance L2-7 campus networks, optical MANs, and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) for non-optical sites.
• Enhancing Healthcare Communication — Reliable communication is critical to providing best-in-class patient care. That's why many healthcare providers are moving towards IP Telephony solutions to drive productivity and efficiency into their patient care environments.