How ChromeOS Flex Saved $1M for a healthcare company

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How ChromeOS Flex Saved $1M for a healthcare company

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With support and security updates for Windows 10 ending in 2025, and the cost of cyber crimes projected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by the same year, businesses are seeking innovative solutions to improve efficiency and cut costs.1

Throughout this search, ChromeOS Flex is emerging as a game-changer, helping organisations streamline operations and significantly impact their bottom line. This is exactly what happened for one Ohio-based healthcare company.

How Foundations Health Solutions Saved $1 Million with ChromeOS Flex

Foundations Health Solutions (FHS), a long-term care company managing 60 nursing homes, faced the challenge of modernising its aging device fleet. By deploying ChromeOS Flex, FHS not only enhanced its IT infrastructure but also saved nearly $1 million in software, hardware, and licensing costs. This strategic move has proven to be a significant financial and operational boost for the company, ensuring that their clinical teams have fast, user-friendly devices, ultimately enhancing patient care.

Searching for Simple to Manage, Stable, and Secure User Technology

At FHS, the goals of being both great caregivers and employers drive their IT strategy. Simplifying, stabilising, and securing technology is crucial to providing a supportive environment for their employees.

The company wanted to reduce its data center footprint, which was both costly and required extensive sysadmin resources. Transitioning data and applications to the cloud was a key step towards this goal. Faced with around 1,000 end-of-life PC laptops and desktops, FHS needed a long-term solution beyond temporary fixes, leading them to test and adopt ChromeOS.

We’ve seen at least an 80% reduction in hardware tickets since modernising devices to ChromeOS Flex.”

—Jason Mesenburg, Support and Endpoint Manager, Foundations Health Solutions

The seamless integration of ChromeOS Flex with existing systems enabled fast and secure access to electronic health records, improving overall efficiency and patient care.

We could install ChromeOS Flex on end-of-life devices and manage them side-by-side with our existing ChromeOS fleet. That idea took off like a rocket ship because we could simultaneously update laptops and desktops that would help our team be more productive and focus more time on patients — plus we could shift data and applications to the cloud.”

—Jason Mesenburg, Support and Endpoint Manager, Foundations Health Solutions

By adopting ChromeOS Flex, FHS has transformed its IT landscape, ensuring its clinical teams are well-equipped to provide the best possible care and highlighting the potential of ChromeOS Flex to drive innovation and efficiency in the healthcare sector and beyond. You can read more about FHS’s transformation here.

Old Computers Made New with ChromeOS Flex

The implementation of ChromeOS Flex allowed FHS to repurpose its aging devices, managing them alongside its existing ChromeOS fleet. The ease of remote management via the Google Admin console and the ability to use managed guest sessions were significant advantages.

This approach reduced the number of hardware incidents and freed up valuable IT resources, allowing field technicians to focus on more strategic projects.

Contact us to get started with ChromeOS Flex today.

Footnotes:

  1. PurpleSec 2023 Cyber Security Statistics report
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