title: Future shock. Lutheran Medical Center builds network for tomorrow's applications.
abstract: Lutheran Medical Center, a 501-bed acute care teaching hospital in Brooklyn, with eight health centers located throughout New York City.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Lutheran's current patient care systems did not have enough scalability or bandwidth to support its applications.
  
  
  METHODS
  A networking partner to deliver an infrastructure designed to meet Lutheran's applications' needs.
  
  
  RESULTS
  An efficient, effective and easy-to-manage network. Routing performance and capacity issues are no longer a problem.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  "Ask yourself what networking applications your organization will need in 2008 and then upgrade your systems to meet those needs."
authors.affiliation: Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Harbison
mesh_terms: D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008122:Local Area Networks; D009519:New York City