An enterprise thousands of years in the making, healthcare is now in the throes of a frenzied modernization campaign. Spurred by legislation, business pressures, better data responsiveness, and the promise of expanded medical capabilities, today’s hospitals are not just digitizing their business management and data management processes, they are networking everything. From managing a broad range of traditional medical instruments, to building digital interfaces with often unseen (and complex) software interactions, they find themselves tasked with connecting technology to every point of care.

Because so much high technology has been so quickly outfitted on top of infrastructure, processes, and staff born of a different era, many hospitals are struggling to manage it all. The incredible size of many healthcare organizations, sprawling layouts, and continuous mergers and acquisitions only add to the challenge. It’s likely that no single manager knows how all the pieces interconnect, let alone how they should connect.