Unisys Launches Active Insights™ by Unisys, Providing Healthcare and Life Sciences Organisations with a Secure,
Integrated Approach to Medical Device Management
Leading-edge security, real-time monitoring and streamlined management deliver improved governance of all medical
devices within an organisation
Wellington, 1 March 2017 – Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) has launched Active Insights™ by Unisys, a comprehensive, integrated medical device management platform providing healthcare and life sciences companies with
the ability to seamlessly monitor all of the medical devices within their organisation.
Powered by state-of-the-art technology including Unisys Stealth® micro-segmentation security software, the Active Insights platform monitors devices from a single point of contact,
enabling healthcare and life sciences companies to easily track medical device performance and maintenance, report
device problems, locate and manage assets and ensure regulatory compliance.
“Active Insights represents the latest software-led solution from Unisys combining both our extensive healthcare
industry expertise and our leading-edge security technology,” said Eric Hutto, senior vice president and president,
Enterprise Solutions, Unisys. “Active Insights helps healthcare organisations address common device management
challenges such as misplaced or out-of-service devices, which not only represents lost revenue but also impacts the
ability of providers to deliver timely, quality care.”
Addressing Device Management Challenges
There are several critical challenges in medical device management that providers face, including adequate device
performance monitoring, turning data into coordinated patient care, and managing assets strewn across multiple
geographies, languages, and regulations. In addition, healthcare facilities must constantly deal with regulatory
compliance in the face of increasingly complex regulations, and amidst an increasing complex network.
Active Insights addresses these challenges by providing healthcare organisations with capabilities including:
• A single, integrated help desk for both IT and medical device support, expediting engineer notification, service
dispatch and part replacement;
• The provision of Universal Device Identification and active RFI tracking for quick and easy device location, leading
to more efficient recall and maintenance processes;
• The incorporation of Unisys integrated analytics capabilities to facilitate adaptive performance optimisation and head
off unexpected downtime;
• The use of Unisys’ integrated, traceable workflow, which provides technicians and service personnel with enhanced
transparency to identify where device data came from, was sent, and what action was taken as a result.
“I am excited for the launch of Unisys’ Active Insights platform,” said Jon Lightman, Life Sciences Practice Lead at
ISG. “Unisys is a strong technology and services company with a long heritage and renewed focus on industry-specific
solutions. This offering addresses a growing challenge for healthcare and life sciences organisations by providing
streamlined device management and improved compliance in an area that will inevitably have continued regulatory
scrutiny.”
“Active Insights represents the inception of our new, rapid development approach, creating solutions that enable clients
to actively look inside and gain a deeper understanding of their internal business processes,” said Dr Jeff Livingstone,
vice president and global head of Unisys’ Life Sciences & Healthcare vertical. “The need is particularly acute with industrial systems and processes that either exhibit large
amounts of latency or involve highly dispersed objects. These areas are attractive to cybercriminals, and unfortunately
include healthcare information systems and medical devices. Considering the overwhelming leverage providers are under to
protect human lives during cyberattacks, as well as the potential widespread violation of patients’ trust and loss of
institutional reputation, it is imperative that providers and medical device manufacturers find ways to better
illuminate data and device management, and that they do so in ways that afford maximum security.”
The solution is available globally. For more information about how Unisys can help manage medical devices assets across
the globe efficiently, please visit www.unisys.com/lifesciences.
About Unisys
Unisys is a global information technology company that works with many of the world's largest companies and government
organisations to solve their most pressing IT and business challenges. Unisys specialises in providing integrated,
leading-edge solutions to clients in government, financial services and commercial markets. With more than 20,000
employees serving clients around the world, Unisys offerings include cloud and infrastructure services, application
services, security solutions, and high-end server technology. For more information, visit www.unisys.com. Follow Unisys on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Unisys Asia Pacific
In Asia Pacific, Unisys delivers services and solutions through subsidiaries in New Zealand, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan and through distributors or resellers in other countries in the region. For more information, visitwww.unisys.co.nz. Follow us on www.twitter.com/UnisysAPAC.
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