Stratus' recent white paper on Best Practices for Server Virtualization in Mission-Critical Healthcare IT outlines how and why large hospitals and healthcare delivery organizations are beginning to explore server virtualization.

Federal mandates require all healthcare records be stored electronically within the next ten years. This move from paper to electronic medical records will make practices more efficient and add to the patient's quality. However it also heightens the demand for fault-tolerant computing. A server failure can literally halt a practice from seeing patients. I believe that IT-constrained practices will need a robust, always on, easy-to-use EMR solution to meet these requirements. For example