As health IT becomes an increasingly key component to quality care, health care providers on DC-Net can be confident that the network they use to transfer patient data and large data sets—often in real-time—is secure and can support their needs now and as they expand to more bandwidth-intensive applications.
Key DC-Net features and capabilities to health care providers include:
- Full suite of Internet, VoIP, Wi-Fi and video teleconferencing services
- HIPAA-compliant transport network since 2010
- Reliable and secure government-owned and operated network with physical and logical site redundancy and services backed by a service-level agreement
- Ultra-high capacity 100 Gigabits-per-second core network, capable of supporting current and next-generation health IT applications
- Qualified E-Rate provider since 2010—uniquely positioned to deliver services to health care provider consortia through the federal Health Care Connect Fund, which enables rural/urban consortia of health care providers to take advantage of up to 65 percent in savings of broadband costs
- Data center hosting and private cloud services
- Ties to local and regional first responder networks, the District Department of Health, and other government agencies
- Local connection provider to National Science Foundation sponsored GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovation) and Internet2 services through George Washington University advanced research and education network
Through DC-Net, health care providers in the District can connect to nation-wide research networks such as Internet2 and GENI, to take advantage of next-generation health IT applications and participate in cutting edge medical research using test-beds at Internet scale.
DC-Net provides services to hospitals, health clinics and other not-for-profit organizations in the District of Columbia. A short and growing list of our health customers includes:
- George Washington University Hospital
- Howard University Hospital
- Children’s National Medical Center
- United Medical Center
- Unity Health Care
- United Planning Organization
- Community of Hope
- Catholic Charities
- Whitman Walker Clinic
- Bread for the City
- La Clinica Del Pueblo
- Family and Medical Counseling
- DC Primary Care Association
- Washington Home and Community Hospice
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