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Remote Access Helps Doctors Do Their Jobs During Hurricane Katrina Disaster In August 2005, New Orleans experienced full-scale tragedy. When Hurricane Katrina hit the city and surrounding area, everything was wiped out, including hospitals. With so many injured by the hurricane, temporary emergency hospitals were set-up in the surrounding area. The Thibodaux Regional Medical Center—55 miles from New Orleans—established one of those emergency hospitals to care for Hurricane Katrina victims. Thibodaux Regional worked with the Red Cross, which had created a makeshift hospital in dormitory rooms at the local university. Doctors worked at the university ‘hospital’ to triage patients. Thibodaux used the AEP Netilla Security Platform SSL VPN solution to give doctors remote access in the emergency hospital. Having remote access meant doctors could sign-on to the network and applications from the makeshift hospital to access to patient information, laboratory results, etc. As a result, turnaround time for patient care was quick. “Emergency response after the hurricane hit was critical. If it hadn’t been for remote access from AEP, doctors and labs wouldn’t have been able to connect with the hospital. By setting up remote access, we lessened the ‘life or death’ situation,” said Terry Evans, CIO of the Thibodaux Regional Medical Center. The temporary hospital created after Hurricane Katrina has been dismantled, but it was a great lesson on disaster recovery, says Evans. “We have the capability to establish access anywhere. Because there are other local hospitals using AEP Networks’ NSP/MEDITECH environment, we could quickly port our data and provide access through their network in the event our facilities are ever affected by other storms.”
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