Why IT leaders should understand hospital-wide infrastructure stacks - Hospital Cooling Infrastructure

You and your teams are managing a complex IT footprint, and every decision you make impacts the entire organization. You and your teams are managing a complex IT footprint, and every decision you make impacts the entire organization. It’s essential to understand how hospital cooling infrastructure supports and strengthens your operations. 👇

The simplified diagram below is a good starting point for further conversation. If you're a healthcare leader and you take anything from this post, let it be this - normal operations grind to a halt without functional underlying 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 and a 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱 to failures.

Here's the low-hanging fruit for hardening your process and resiliency;

• IT Leaders need to be involved in cross-department work planning - break down communication silos and understand how "unrelated" work in the hospital will affect your operations.

• Evaluate & Implement Environmental Monitoring - this is a common theme; the faster we know there is an issue, the faster we can assess and respond. 

• Inspect Airflow & Heat Transfer Surfaces - Poor cleanliness negatively affects heat transfer capability. Are server PS intake/exhaust operating in the correct direction?

• Load Shed Planning - this is less applicable for IDFs - but if you're managing a larger environment, you need to have a plan to shed load for times where cooling capacity is reduced. 

If you're an IT leader, in healthcare or otherwise, and you want to get serious about assessing and improving the resiliency of your infrastructure - let's get started. 

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