Tech Data Enrolls Resellers In IT Med School

CLEARWATER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:TECD) today opened the Healthcare IT Pavilion, a simulated doctor’s office within the distributor’s 6,000-square-foot technology solutions center. The new facility is supported by Tech Data’s Healthcare Specialized Business Unit (SBU). It features a broad array of IT solutions used in medical facilities of all sizes, including the latest Electronic Health Records (EHR) and practice management software, document imaging, networking, mobility, storage, video surveillance, video conferencing, unified communications, digital signage and specialized accessories.

“Resellers face two considerable challenges when it comes to building their healthcare IT businesses”

Take a photo tour of Tech Data’s Healthcare IT Pavilion here.

“Resellers face two considerable challenges when it comes to building their healthcare IT businesses,” said Tech Data Vice President, Services Barb Miller. “First, they need to understand the operational challenges medical practices face and how IT solutions they already sell and support can enable doctors to operate more efficiently and enhance patient care. Second, there are a host of specialized solutions most resellers have no experience deploying, including EHR and practice management software. The Healthcare IT Pavilion enables resellers to learn what it takes to build a profitable healthcare IT practice by engaging industry experts and seeing these solutions in action.”

Members of Tech Data’s TechMed Alliance—a group of resellers focused on growing their healthcare IT businesses—can immediately reserve the Healthcare IT Pavilion for private tours and trainings for their sales and technical teams. They also can utilize the facility for end-user solutions demonstrations, bringing their healthcare customers to Tech Data’s Clearwater headquarters and working with the Healthcare SBU and its vendor partners to deliver impactful sales presentations.

Hands On With Healthcare IT

The Healthcare IT Pavilion features two exam rooms, a consultation room, waiting room, reception desk and office-management area to demonstrate the various IT solutions that would be deployed throughout a doctor’s office. Solutions in use include:

• Electronic Health Records – enables doctors to efficiently and securely manage patient records and treatment plans, share images such as MRI scans and X-rays, and more
• Mobility – PC carts, tablet PCs, ruggedized handhelds and secure wireless networks free medical practitioners to treat patients and access records anywhere
• Practice Management Systems – help doctors’ offices manage operations, including scheduling, billing, insurance claims submission, reporting and forecasting
• Document Imaging – enables medical practices to capture and store paper records and transition to an electronic records system
• Unified Communications – keeps doctors, nurses and other staff connected to each other and to the information they need to treat patients at all times and from any location
• Video Conferencing – HD video conferencing enables more efficient collaboration and consultation between doctors and patients
• Security – biometrics, network security and video surveillance keep facilities, patients, staff and electronic records secure
• Digital Signage – educates and entertains patients, their families and other guests
• Specialized Accessories – antimicrobial mouse pads, washable keyboards, mounts and other specialized products create a more efficient and sanitary work environment

Leading vendors demonstrating solutions in the Healthcare IT Pavilion include Brother, Ergotron, Fellowes, Fujitsu, gloStream, Greenway, HP, Imation, Infonic, Kodak, LifeSize, Panasonic, Plantronics, Sage, Seal-Shield, Socket, Sony and VMware.

To learn more and to schedule a tour of the Healthcare IT Pavilion, contact Tech Data’s Healthcare SBU by calling 800-753-4538 or visit the TechMed Web Resource Center at www.techdata.com.

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About Tech Data

Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ GS: TECD) is one of the world’s largest distributors of technology products from leading IT hardware and software producers. Tech Data serves more than 125,000 IT solution providers in over 100 countries. Every day, these resellers depend on Tech Data to cost-effectively support the technology needs of end users, including small and medium businesses (SMB), large enterprises and government agencies. Ranked 109^th on the FORTUNE 500(R), Tech Data generated $22.1 billion in net sales for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2010. To learn more, visit www.techdata.com.