Business fiber for healthcare in Nevada

Clinical systems are cloud hosted, imaging files are enormous, and downtime has patient safety consequences, not just financial ones.

Nevada healthcare runs from the Las Vegas Medical District and the large Henderson and Reno systems out to critical access hospitals serving communities a long way from anything. The connectivity problem at those two ends is not the same problem, and it is at the rural end that redundancy stops being theoretical.

Where we see this most in Nevada: Las Vegas, Henderson, Reno, Carson City.

What is driving the bandwidth requirement

• Electronic health records hosted remotely, so the connection is the chart
• Imaging transfer between sites and to radiology reading services
• Telehealth sessions that must hold quality on a consumer's connection at the other end
• Remote patient monitoring feeding data in continuously
• Payer and clearinghouse transactions running all day

What the connection actually needs to do

• Redundant circuits from separate carriers, with automatic failover that has actually been tested
• Symmetrical bandwidth sized for imaging, not for browsing
• Documented SLA to support business continuity requirements
• Traffic separation between clinical, guest, and administrative networks
• A carrier that can produce the paperwork your compliance team will ask for

The mistake we see most often

Guest wifi on the same circuit as clinical traffic, with no policing. A busy waiting room should never be able to slow down an imaging transfer.

Nevada carriers that fit this profile

The right carrier depends far more on your address than on your industry. That said, these are the Nevada options worth having in the comparison.

Cox Business Cable and fiber Lumen National fiber and ILEC AT&T Business National fiber and ILEC Spectrum Enterprise Cable and fiber Zayo Wholesale and enterprise fiber Verizon Business National carrier

Healthcare connectivity in Nevada: common questions