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IBA Health goes with Verizon solution

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“IP-enabled audio and video conferencing will also be deployed in all the company’s offices, enabling employees to collaborate around the globe. The company hopes that this will dramatically improve the delivery of its operations.”

Wilkinson said the company, which was achieving efficiencies of up to 25 percent in its overall IT budget, would centralise its human resources, finance and customer-resource management applications, with Verizon providing a “resilient, reliable and secure global network over which these applications can be delivered to IBA Health’s global employees.”
 
According to Verizon Business VP for Australia and New Zealand, Ron Gauci, health care customers – from providers to patients – have some of the most exacting demands in the world in terms of information availability and security, and increasingly, “success in this space is enhanced by technology.”