Rapid Deployment of Microsoft VDI to Enable Immediate Remote Working.
Background & Overview
Elysium Healthcare is a privately owned provider of mental health services in the UK. Conceived in December 2016, the company bought multiple strategic sites from the portfolio of Partnerships in Care and The Priory Group when they were sold by Acadia Healthcare.
Several further acquisitions over recent years have enlarged the Elysium Healthcare group, providing an expansive portfolio across mental health care, neurological care, education, children’s services and private patient services. The company always delivers individualised, evidence-based care.
Project Requirements
The continued growth of Elysium Healthcare in a relatively short time frame has brought together an increasing number of different sites, each deploying, monitoring and managing their own IT infrastructures, technologies and data.
Given the challenges of an acquisition business model, integrating multiple sites and their associated applications and systems is an arduous task even for experienced IT teams.
Additionally, the model for mental health practitioners had moved away from the traditional larger hospital-type sites to smaller, more individualised community-based settings, resulting in an increased number of sites throughout the country, all requiring a consistency of IT support and service.
Elysium Healthcare was looking for a Microsoft Infrastructure (Azure) Solution Partner who understood the complexities of an expanding business, ideally with experience in healthcare. They were also keen to engage with a partner who recognised the importance of placing patient care at the heart of everything—building a secure IT infrastructure with leading-edge technologies was an important aspect of this.
What Was Delivered – The Solution
As Elysium Healthcare acquired new businesses, CyberOne has continued to work alongside internal teams to integrate applications, creating a common standard, while building resiliency to avoid unnecessary downtime.
- Microsoft VDI—During the first week of Lockdown in the UK, CyberOne rapidly deployed a Windows 10 and Microsoft Azure VDI solution to enable secure and fast homeworking.
- Azure cloud transitions and enablement—In partnership with CyberOne, Elysium Healthcare recently chose to migrate a number of services to Microsoft’s Azure cloud to achieve essential flexibility in a secure private cloud environment. Some of the benefits realised include added flexibility and agility, compliance with regulations and improved security with the adoption of multi-factor authentication.
- Cybersecurity – CyberOne has assisted Elysium Healthcare with various cyber security consultancy and delivery projects.
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