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The sees more patients than any other medical network in Canada. And to ensure they have a world-class experience from the time they are admitted through their procedures and release, the top-ranked medical institution has gone digital. Using solutions from (NASDAQ: CTXS), The Ottawa Hospital has built a through which it can provide clinicians and staff with simple, secure and reliable access to the systems and applications they need to provide the exceptional care the more than 1.2 million patients it serves have come to expect. And for its efforts, it has been recognized with a

“Seeking medical care can be frustrating for patients as they often have to provide information multiple times because teams in different locations across a hospital network lack consolidated access to their records,” said Shafique Shamji, Executive Vice President and CIO, The Ottawa Hospital. “Our goal is to eliminate this frustration by providing our physicians and staff with unified access to the resources they need – when and where they need them - to deliver superior, patient-centric care.”

And it’s relying on solutions from Citrix to achieve it.

With the help of Citrix North American Platinum Plus partner , The Ottawa Hospital team has built a Digital Health Network that connects all the applications and hardware it uses to power its operations and allows it to deliver a consistent, intuitive user experience. The foundation of this network? Citrix digital workspace solutions, including , and .

“Patient-centric care is a common goal, but it’s difficult to achieve without a common platform,” said Shamji. “With Citrix, we now have this platform.”

And the hospital is using it to:

• Provide access to the applications employees need and prefer to use, including 300 EPIC applications, from any hospital or remote location connected to the Digital Health Network.
• Simplify and secure sharing of sensitive information through single sign-on spanning 16 different domains
• Accelerate its digital transformation by transitioning critical on-premises applications to the cloud.

“With Citrix in place, we can make important patient information accessible to support timely, informed clinical decisions and care plans in a highly secure and reliable way,” Shamji said.

It can also accommodate the new realities of healthcare being driven by the global pandemic, such as remote work and telemedicine.

“When COVID-19 hit, we were quickly able to equip our teams to work from anywhere without disruption and support the telemedicine model that is transforming healthcare delivery,” Shamji said.

The Ottawa Hospital joins more than 400,000 companies and around the world who are using Citrix solutions to transform the employee experience and power a better way to work that benefits their customers and their business. Click to learn more about these solutions and the results they can deliver for your organization.

About The Ottawa Hospital

No Canadian academic health sciences centre sees more patients than The Ottawa Hospital. We serve 1.2 million people across Eastern Ontario, striving to provide each patient with the world-class care, exceptional service and compassion that we would want for our loved ones. Visit us at:

About DLS

A Citrix Platinum Plus partner, is a leading technology solutions integrator and service provider to the public and private sectors with expertise in IT based solutions for the government, healthcare, defense and finance sectors, recognized as one of Canada's Top 500 Growing and Growth 400 companies. DLS delivers comprehensive solutions ranging from Digital Transformation, Cloud Computing, Identity Management and Cybersecurity including their Citrix Ready patented that addresses their clients' specific needs and outcomes.

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Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) builds the secure, unified digital workspace technology that helps organizations unlock human potential and deliver a consistent workspace experience wherever work needs to get done. With Citrix, users get a seamless work experience and IT has a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.

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