It seems like 2021 is clipping by at a fast pace. In February, I contributed an article to Forbes that speaks to Cisco’s role in facilitating Covid19 vaccine distribution and its broader inclusive recovery strategy. It features anecdotes and my insights related to the networking giant’s involvement with Walgreens and Renown Health. If interested, you can find that article here. In this post, I would like to provide visibility into Cisco’s additional efforts with STANLEY Healthcare and Sky Lakes Medical Center.
STANLEY Healthcare
STANLEY Healthcare’s stated mission is to provide innovative solutions for safer, more secure, and efficient care in senior living, hospitals, and clinics. Interestingly, it is part of Black and Decker known for its power tools and storage products that features iconic brands such as DeWalt, Craftsman, and Porter-Cable. It is a worldwide leader in the category, so I was impressed to recently learn of its healthcare portfolio, having spent three years during my corporate career helping a company enter the healthcare market with a line of electronic medical recording solutions.
STANLEY’s portfolio focuses on patient fall and wander management, emergency call, real-time location, personal protection for patients, infants, staff, and environmental monitoring. It is a successful offering, as evidenced by the adoption of its solutions by over 10,000 healthcare providers. Recently, STANLEY worked with Cisco to integrate its offerings into the Cisco DNA Spaces location-based solution platform. According to STANLEY, during the pandemic, this has enhanced the ability for caregivers to leverage networking infrastructure to manage building and ward densities ensuring safe distancing protocols and monitoring of environmental elements to deliver effective vaccine distribution. It is no secret that Covid-19 vaccines must be temperature regulated, and DNA Spaces has facilitated improved visibility of the STANLEY AeroScout temperature tag devices attached to vaccine cold storage.
Sky Lakes Medical Center
Sky Lakes Medical Center is a not-for-profit acute-care teaching hospital located in Oregon and California, serving more than 80,000 people. In Klamath Falls, Oregon, Sky Lakes is the only hospital within an astounding 10,000 square mile radius, surrounded by Crater Lake National Park and a handful of national forests. What I find fascinating about the healthcare provider is how aggressively a rural healthcare system has effectively leaned into technology. Sky Lakes has adopted the STANLEY and Cisco DNA Spaces integrated solution to manage its vaccine storage with temperature monitoring and asset tracking. Additionally, Sky Lakes is deploying Cisco WebEx for daily virtual safety team huddles as well as leveraging the scalability of Cisco’s Wi-Fi platforms to stand-up pop-up Covid-19 vaccine clinics in a local fairground venue and soccer stadium among other locations.
Wrapping up
I continue to be impressed with Cisco’s proactive efforts throughout the pandemic. It proactively offered extended and no-cost temporary licenses of its WebEx collaboration and Umbrella security platforms, opened up incremental financing to small and large businesses and facilitated remote work and effective vaccine distribution. I believe this will pay dividends for Cisco long-term financially, but more importantly, it is the right thing to do given the company’s resources. Kudos to Chuck Robbins and his management team for making a difference in the lives of many as we all begin the process of putting the pandemic in the rearview mirror.
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cisco-builds-upon-its-inclusive-covid-19-recovery-will-townsend/
