NOW Corp., a listed company in the Philippine Stock Exchange, announced that one of the country’s top medical institutions has completed the upgrade of its broadband connectivity so it can provide faster Internet connection to its stakeholders—primarily to the patients and to their families. Metropolitan Medical Center, a medical-care institution right in the heart of Binondo in Manila, turned to NOW Corp. for the upgrade of its broadband connectivity so it can accommodate higher bandwidth requirements. The upgrade is part of Metropolitan Medical Center’s mission to provide world-class medical services at the most affordable cost to its patients, most of which reside in Manila and the Chinatown areas. The hospital wasted no time in upgrading its Internet capabilities to improve overall hospital operations, which is part of the total customer service satisfaction. With a more reliable and faster Internet connectivity, the hospital’s administration, finance and other important offices now have the liberty of streamlining its operations and processes, such as documentation, digitization of x-ray films and other paper-dependent documents. Engr. Manuel L. Umali, Metropolitan Medical Center’s information-technology (IT) manager, said with the network upgrade that guarantees Internet connectivity, the hospital’s patients and their visiting families and guests will be able to enjoy faster Wi-Fi access. “It will be plus points for us from a service standpoint since our patients and their guests can now enjoy surfing the Internet at blazing speeds, while getting faster access to audio and video apps such as Facetime, Viber, Skype, Facebook or Snapchat at the comfort of their rooms. This means their relatives abroad who won’t be able to visit them will be provided with real-time updates about their hospitalization.  We are also improving our operations by way of sending x-ray and other documents in digital format.  We’re glad that all these upgrades in our services have materialized, which is part of the hospital’s total health-care service initiatives in going the ‘extra mile’ to provide our patients the topnotch service they deserve,” Umali said. The hospital, thus, became an addition to NOW Corp.’s network of interconnected establishments in its so-called Broadband Superhighway, where large enterprises in the country can now look forward to fiber-in-the-air and fiber underground Internet services. This is part of the promise of NOW Corp. to big businesses: a digital transformation process integrating high-value IT products and services and wireless cable TV together with guaranteed broadband connectivity. NOW Corp. has been a major IT firm since 2002. It has served blue-chip companies Towers Watson, UCPB, Coca-Cola, SC Johnson, International Shared Services, BDO, Chinabank, Philippine National Bank, Golden Arches Development Corp. (McDonald’s), Phinma Group of Companies and SM Retail. “Our strength is that we come from an IT background entering into the broadband business.  We understand the fuel of growth of an enterprise, the need to combine all of the available and most efficient software tools available in the market, all integrated into a digital transformation approach,” said Kristian Alisasis Pura, NOW head of Enterprise Marketing. However, Pura was quick to point out that NOW Corp.’s position in the market is to be a redundant or alternative to incumbent broadband providers at a fraction of the cost and faster to deploy. “We have no intention of replacing the big players,” Pura said. Source: http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/2016/08/30/metropolitan-medical-center-ups-its-service-with-broadband-connectivity-from-now-corp/