NetworkWorld has an interesting story about a medical health center that is still taking baby steps toward VoIP and converged networking.

Baptist Health says a measured transition to VoIP makes the most sense for it, and there are lessons to be learned from its approach.

Most of Baptist Health’s 8,000 phones are located in a 15-floor building in Little Rock, but the medical center has eight sites overall. As it moves offices or builds new facilities, it will outfit those desktops with IP phones, Myers says.

“We never made a decision to forklift everything out and replace it with IP, but as departments moved or are added or if we buy up a clinic across town – if we feel it’s a good candidate for IP that’s what we do,” he says.

The success of a VoIP implementation – even the decision whether to implement VoIP – is customer or vertical market-specific in the end.

Whether you are in the market for a complete overhaul of your VoIP systems, or you want to transition slowly, VoIP can be scaled to fit your needs, while also realizing a significant ROI.