How healthcare practitioners access and share health information minute by minute as they’re helping patients is still broken. Simple tasks like logging into get patient health records are inefficient and slow down the workflow. As more health data goes digital, the issue of health data security grows.

We are more than halfway through VMworld 2011 and it is abundantly clear that health care is beginning to embrace desktop virtualization at a fast clip. Despite hurricane Irene’s impact on the east coast, nearly 1,000 health care IT professionals have turned out to hear about the progress VMware and its partners are making in the industry, share experiences and, yes, showcase their success with roaming point of care desktops.