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The value of network monitoring
Healthcare networks are coming under increasing pressure, as hospitals and clinics adopt more connected technologies, migrate to cloud-based platforms, and extend their use of remote monitoring and services. It’s not just connectivity that matters, but also the quality and speed of each connection – this is the lifeblood of modern healthcare.
Prevention is always better than cure, and optimizing network performance shouldn’t just be a question of reacting to problems. Taking a proactive approach to monitoring the well-being of your network will help you to identify potential problems and tackle them early, before they impact on patients and the medical teams looking after them.
Observe the vital signs
Statseeker’s network monitoring solution monitors every IP-enabled physical, virtual and logical interface across your entire WAN and LAN network – up to 1 million of them – every 60 seconds from a single dedicated server. With minimal impact on bandwidth, it will analyze traffic, measure latency, and check device availability, reporting back to you in seconds through informative dashboards and precise, customized alerts.
Statseeker polls different objects and stores values at different rates depending on the type of data, its relative importance, the likely number of objects on the network, and the likely frequency that the data is going to change. For example, the volume of data transmitted from an interface is likely to change frequently, so it is polled every minute, whereas configuration data is unlikely to change so it’s only collected during initial discovery and frequent rewalks.
Be informed by the history
Near real-time alerts to system anomalies or outages are an essential part of network monitoring. But so is analysing and understanding what’s been happening in the lead up to that alert: what trends are emerging in the behavior and usage of your network? Just like treating a human patient, diagnosing and predicting network outcomes can’t be done without context – you need to know the history.
Statseeker analytics will provide you with trendlines and forecasting, based on accurate minute-by-minute data, enabling you to predict, visualize and respond to changing network conditions.
Remedy or prevent the problem
Statseeker’s customizable maintenance scheduling allows teams to coordinate updates with minimal impact on clinical workflows. With access to historical data and growth trends, you can plan network upgrades proactively and use insights and trends to inform future scaling of infrastructure to meet emerging needs.
7 ways that major US healtchare organizations are benefiting from Statseeker
- Using it as their primary tool for diagnosing and addressing network issues quickly and effectively
- Detecting and resolving issues before they escalate, ensuring continuous operation of essential systems like Epic and Phillips medical equipment, to help maintain patient care and continuity (especially during emergencies)
- Monitoring and SLA reporting are helping to maintain 99.99% uptime, preventing costly disruptions to services, such as delays in radiology and diagnostics, which can negatively affect patient care and throughput
- Historical reporting helps identify patterns and prevent recurring issues, improving long-term network stability and reliability
- SLA tracking over a 13-month rolling window is helping to avoid service-level violations and sustain operational excellence
- Bridging gaps between legacy and modern systems for comprehensive monitoring, thanks to seamless integration with other tools
- Monthly utilization reports and daily performance reviews catch potential bottlenecks early, keeping the network running reliably
