Astaro and NeuroScience Consultants--Real World Solutions

By Stephanie Jordan
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NeuroScience Consultants is a multi-location group of physicians with over 16 locations and 30 neurologists and a central billing office. It provides medical care to patients with neurological issues. Until recently each location had its own private network routed over the Internet using Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). According to the company, by switching to VPN overlay with the Astaro Security Gateways, NeuroScience Consultants saved over $100,000 USD a year in networking costs.

Astaro partner RemoteWorks installed the Astaro Security Gateway and created VPN tunnels at all 16 of NeuroScience Consultants’ locations. The simple VPN tunneling allowed Lanny Pauley, NeuroScience Consultants COO, to provide access to outside requests for access to medical records programs. RemoteWorks also helped Pauley shape his organization’s bandwidth, reprioritizing network applications, which increased the networks speed with essential functions such as medical record transmissions.

“I needed to ensure that all electronic medical records received the highest priority treatment relative to bandwidth and that normal Internet traffic received the least priority,” explains Pauley. “The Astaro Security Gateway allowed us to give medical records the highest priority, so that our doctors can have instant access to the information they require to make crucial medical decisions.”

Pauley also noted additional benefits, like protection from unwanted annoyances (worms, viruses, spam etc.) and limiting the sites that staff can access, created a “more productive and secure environment”.

Published September 30, 2009