AT&T Contract with ValleyCare Health System

AT&T Announces New Contract with ValleyCare Health System

AT&T Inc. today announced that AT&T has signed a new comprehensive network, data and voice services contract with ValleyCare Health System, a not-for-profit health care system serving residents of the Health Systemarea and surrounding communities in Alameda County, Calif.

Under the terms of the five-year contract, AT&T will deliver Multi-Service Optical Network Ring (MON Ring) to ValleyCare Health System, enabling all of three of its campuses to share high-bandwidth clinical applications like electronic medical records (EMR) and pictorial archival communications systems (PACS). The MON Ring will offer ample infrastructure to support the storage area network (SAN), which is critical to disaster recovery and business-continuity planning.

Additionally, AT&T will be providing OPT-E-MAN® switched Ethernet service to support connectivity for Managed Internet Service (MIS). OPT-E-MAN makes possible a pure Ethernet solution for always-available Internet access. This solution will result in increased flexibility, which will accommodate the growing trend of Web-based clinical applications. In addition, the solution will also provide traditional voice and data services, such as T1, Primary Rate ISDN and toll-free services.

"With multiple locations throughout our health care system, we needed a provider with state-of-the-art technology to support advanced applications and link our multiple locations under one network," said Ken Jensen, chief financial officer, ValleyCare Health System. "We are confident that the solution provided by AT&T will sustain our current Web-based clinical applications with increased security, and provide the flexibility needed to implement future applications, such as E911, which will enable us to better serve our patients" - AT&T.