Hospital computer monitoring with PRTG
Ensure 24/7 IT availability in the healthcare industry
- Stop errors with healthcare computers, systems, and services
- Prevent downtime by monitoring 24/7 with PRTG
- Protect employees and patients by ensuring smooth workflows
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PRTG hospital computer monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
- How PRTG keeps your doctors, nurses, and staff happy
- 3 ways to prevent downtime in your hospital with PRTG
- What hospital computer monitoring looks like in PRTG
- Why PRTG is perfect for hospitals, healthcare providers, and healthcare organizations
- Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for hospital computer monitoring
- Monitoring hospital computers: FAQ
How PRTG keeps your doctors, nurses, and staff happy
Paessler PRTG helps you prevent errors and malfunctions and maximizes the availability of computers, systems, and services.
Ensure a stable hospital network
Medical professionals and other hospital staff are extremely pressed for time. Computer malfunctions make their jobs more difficult. Errors and downtime also affect the accounting department from processing invoices and settling patient accounts.
PRTG makes sure your entire staff has smooth-running computers, a stable internet connection, and a reliable connection to the hospital databases and servers.
Prevent hospital computer malfunctions
We know your IT system is crucial to input and access patient data and coordinate and communicate with other departments.
PRTG is the best way to ensure the smooth and secure operation of your hospital, which depends on the health and availability of your computers, workstations, networked diagnostic equipment, and various mobile health devices and wearables.
PRTG makes health system monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with the health and performance of medical equipment.
3 ways to prevent downtime in your hospital with PRTG
Quickly identify overloads
Does the network overload during shift changes? Do daily backups cause the performance of your system to suffer?
PRTG lets you quickly identify potential overloads and take action at once. Improve the speed and performance of your systems and keep downtime to a minimum.
Targeted capacity planning
PRTG keeps a constant eye on network and hardware parameters such as server load, bandwidth, memory, and the remaining space on hard drives.
With its wealth of historical data, it lets you quickly identify potential bottlenecks and upgrade your IT environment in a targeted and future-oriented manner.
Custom alerts & notifications
PRTG helps you identify problems before they arise. Set your preferred warning and error thresholds, and if these are breached, you’ll see so at once.
Our network monitoring software alerts you in real time via the notification method of your choice, for example via SMS, email, or in-app push notification.
What hospital computer monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking your healthcare IT systems. Show hardware health, availability, connectivity, performance, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot your entire network and streamline hospital processes and workflows.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Consolidated monitoring of medical equipment, building technology, and classic IT infrastructure
Custom PRTG dashboard for a high-level healthcare IT infrastructure overview
Start monitoring health data with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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Why PRTG is perfect for hospitals, healthcare providers, and healthcare organizations
Fast setup developed for great usability
PRTG is easy to configure, customize, and use. Install PRTG with just a few clicks and let the automatic network discovery do the first setup work for you. This way, you have a starting point from which you can then fine-tune and personalize your hospital monitoring environment.
Custom dashboards and detailed statistics
PRTG dashboards display all the relevant information regarding a hospital IT infrastructure. A quick glance is all it takes to see if everything is OK or if action is needed. Long-term statistics provide data over longer periods of time, for example the uptime of servers or bandwidth usage.
Monitors imaging equipment & patient systems
PRTG does much more than monitor your hospital IT environment. It also comes with special sensors that monitor imaging equipment such as MRI scanners, ultrasound devices, and endoscopes. What’s more, its native DICOM and HL7 sensors monitor patient systems such as HISs, RISs, and LIMSs.
PRTG makes health system monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with the health and performance of medical equipment.
PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems
Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for hospital computer monitoring
PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!
DICOM Bandwidth
The DICOM Bandwidth sensor monitors the bandwidth usage of a C-STORE request to a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) capable device. It can show the following:
- Bandwidth usage of the sent files
- Response time of the C-STORE request
- Total size of the sent files
DICOM C-ECHO
The DICOM C-ECHO sensor monitors the availability of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) capable systems and devices by sending C-ECHO requests to the target system. C-ECHO is also known as DICOM-Ping. It can show the following:
- Average response time of the C-ECHO request
- Minimum response time of the C-ECHO request
- Maximum response time of the C-ECHO request
DICOM Query/Retrieve
The DICOM Query/Retrieve sensor monitors the C-FIND capability of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) capable systems and devices. It sends a C-FIND request or Modality Worklist (MWL) query to the target device and counts all found items. It can show the following:
- Average, minimum, and maximum query entry time
- Total number of items found
- Total time of the C-FIND request or MWL query
Soffico Orchestra Channel Health
The Soffico Orchestra Channel Health sensor monitors the state and the overall number of successful or unsuccessful channel calls. It can show the following:
- Adapter status
- Number of errors
- Number of OKs
Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG hospital computer monitoring solution
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Create innovative solutions with Paessler’s partners
Partnering with innovative vendors, Paessler unleashes synergies to create
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“Excellent tool for detailed monitoring. Alarms and notifications work greatly. Equipment addition is straight forward and server initial setup is very easy. ...feel safe to purchase it if you intend to monitor a large networking landscape.”
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PRTG makes health system monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with the health and performance of medical equipment.
Monitoring hospital computers: FAQ
What is hospital computer monitoring?
Hospital computer monitoring refers to the use of monitoring tools and software solutions to track, manage, and optimize the performance, security, and usage of computers and networked systems within a hospital or healthcare environment. This includes:
- Monitoring the performance of systems that host EHRs, PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System), or Radiology Information Systems (RIS).
- Ensuring hospital Wi-Fi networks remain robust and responsive, particularly in areas where medical devices depend on wireless connectivity.
- Monitoring data access and usage patterns to prevent unauthorized access to patient health medical records or sensitive data.
- Detecting anomalies, such as unusual login attempts, potential cyberattacks, or data breaches.
- Ensuring all hospital computers are up to date with security patches, antivirus software, and encryption protocols.
- Monitoring the connectivity and performance of medical IoT (Internet of Things) devices like heart monitors, infusion pumps, or ventilators.
- Monitoring the hospital’s PACS servers that store diagnostic imaging to ensure they don’t reach full capacity.
- Verifying that regular backups of EHR data are being completed without error to avoid data loss in the event of a system crash.
- Providing IT staff with remote access to computers or devices to troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly.
- Monitoring telemedicine systems that support remote care, ensuring they are always accessible and functional.
Why is hospital computer monitoring important?
Monitoring hospital computers and other devices is important for some of the following reasons:
- Improved patient care: Reliable systems ensure that doctors and nurses can access vital patient data quickly and accurately.
- Operational efficiency: Continuous monitoring minimizes downtime, allowing hospital staff to focus on patient care without worrying about technical issues.
- Data security: By closely monitoring systems for security vulnerabilities, hospitals can safeguard patient information and comply with privacy regulations.
- Cost reduction: Monitoring can help identify inefficiencies, saving costs by optimizing the use of hardware, software, and energy.
What is DICOM?
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is an international standard for transmitting, storing, and managing medical images and related data. It is used in healthcare settings to ensure that images (like X-rays, MRIs, CT scans, etc.) and associated patient information can be exchanged seamlessly between different medical devices and software systems.
What is HL7?
HL7 (Health Level 7) is a set of international standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information. It focuses on the interoperability of healthcare systems, enabling the seamless communication and management of clinical and administrative data between different healthcare applications and organizations.
What is a sensor in PRTG?
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.
On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins. We asked: would you recommend PRTG?
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The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier. Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network. Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.Still not convinced?
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