Qwest Powers Cancer Treatment Centers

The newly opened Cancer Treatment Centers of America hospital known as Western Regional Medical Center located in Goodyear, AZ is depending on a high-speed networking solution designed by Qwest to “help deliver a fully integrated, patient-centered treatment experience that combines traditional, state-of-the-art medical treatments with scientifically supported complementary therapies.”

The network was designed to provide the CTCA patient care team reliable, real-time access to medical imaging, patient records, and sophisticated health care applications.

Chad Eckes, CEO at Cancer Treatment Centers of America stated, “At CTCA, we are constantly looking for ways to improve patient care for those living with cancer. Qwest’s first-class communications solution enables the new facility to deliver leading-edge medical technology and innovative medical therapy in a manner that increases operational efficiencies and reduces costs and paper.”

Reduced costs and increases in the efficiency of operations at hospitals or clinics can result from consolidated technology handled on a single platform. With underlying optical connectivity, Qwest’s network has the capacity to support rates of up to 40 GB per second. Offering the best in service level agreements and access speeds, Qwest has one of the most advanced networks available and provides services to businesses and government groups throughout the United States.

Executive Vice President of Qwest Business Markets Group, Teresa Taylor stated, “Information technology solutions are improving the quality of health care for Americans – a fact that has been widely recognized by the nation’s leading health care providers and the new administration in Washington. Hospitals like CTCA are using affordable, tailored solutions from Qwest to improve patient care and quality of life while also increasing operational efficiency.”

Enabling the hospital to also digitally store and retrieve patient records instantly and meet compliance requirements set by HIPAA, Qwest has also provided a private fiber ring supported by two separate Qwest offices. If one of the offices happens to have some type of failure, the network traffic would be routed to the other office.

Rakesh Patel, director of IT for CTCA said, “As part of our commitment to delivering a high standard of care to patients across the CTCA network, we must ensure the systems that support quality care and patient safety as well as administrative processes are available 100 percent of the time.”