Solution Provider Offers Extensive Portfolio of Healthcare
Solutions to Premier’s Member Organizations
Farmington Hills,
MI, October 20, 2011 – To support the advanced technology
needs of more than 2,500 U.S. hospitals and 76,000-plus other
healthcare sites served by the Premier healthcare alliance,
Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and
communications technology (ICT) solutions and services (http://www.us.logicalis.com/),
announced today the availability of its Premier enterprise data
storage solutions contract. The contract extends Logicalis’
expertise in enterprise data storage and services, and a broad and
extensive portfolio of healthcare technology solutions to the
members of the Premier healthcare alliance through specially
negotiated terms.
Premier is a coalition of over 2,500 hospitals
and healthcare sites that use their combined purchasing power to
negotiate quantity-of-scale discounts on a myriad of products,
including select information technology products and solutions
important to the daily operation of the member organizations’
individual IT environments.
Under the terms of Logicalis’ agreement with
Premier, the solution provider will offer prenegotiated pricing on
enterprise storage solutions from HP. The contract also
includes Logicalis Services, providing members access to technical
resources with deep storage and data management expertise.
“With HITECH, storage requirements for EHR and
imaging data have skyrocketed,” says Karen Burton, U.S. Healthcare
Practice manager for Logicalis. “Logicalis is a leader in the
development of healthcare solutions based on HP enterprise storage
products. Our storage services focus on optimizing and
virtualizing storage as well as implementing replicated storage for
disaster recovery. But storage is just a small piece of what
Logicalis can do for Premier members. With over 300
healthcare customers, this is a vertical market that we not only
understand, but one in which we are experienced and ready to assist
as Premier’s member companies consider their IT strategies.”
“With nearly two decades of experience with
HP, Logicalis is a natural choice for Premier when it comes to
enterprise storage solutions,” says Brandon Harris, vice president
of Logicalis HP Solutions. “We are excited to have the
opportunity to serve such a vast number of Premier members in this
capacity. While many of Premier’s healthcare members are
already Logicalis clients, we see this as an opportunity for
Logicalis to earn the same trust and respect in all areas of IT
from those Premier members who are not yet familiar with Logicalis
and the many solutions and services we have to offer.”
About the Premier healthcare alliance,
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,500
U.S. hospitals and 76,000-plus other healthcare sites using the
power of collaboration to lead the transformation to high quality,
cost-effective care. Owned by hospitals, health systems and other
providers, Premier maintains the nation's most comprehensive
repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and
operates a leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader in
helping deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier has worked
with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the
United Kingdom's National Health Service North West to improve
hospital performance. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier
also has an office in Washington. http://www.premierinc.com/about/news/.
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About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international provider of integrated information
and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services founded
on a superior breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications
& collaboration, data center, and cloud computing and managed
services.
Logicalis Group employs nearly 2,500 people
worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design,
specify, deploy and manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the
needs of over 6,000 corporate and public sector customers. To
achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with
technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft.
The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of
over $1 billion, from operations in the UK, US, Germany, South
America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of
the leading IT and Communications solution integrators,
specializing in the areas of advanced technologies and
services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec
Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges,
with revenues of approximately $5 billion.
For more information, visit http://www.us.logicalis.com/.