The healthcare industry is at a crossroads with regard to the management of data, due to the exponential growth of data from patients, to increasingly strict Government and sectoral regulations, some budgets you down and full transition to the electronic clinical histories. Health organizations are facing the challenge of controlling the growth of data and manage large content repositories, cut storage costs, improve recovery disaster and remove barriers between the access and exchange of clinical data and patients and medical imaging, to continue providing the highest quality in patient care.
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) announce the signing of an Alliance to provide health organizations secure cloud for medical data archiving and retrieval solution disaster. Iron Mountain is currently the only member of the program of partner suppliers of services of NetApp focused on the healthcare industry. This program of NetApp, released in June 2010, was the first of its kind in the storage industry.
Building on the partnership kept under this program, both companies will integrate the storage software of NetApp ® StorageGRID ® objects with two solutions of archiving medical data Iron Mountain – Digital Record Center ® for Medical Images and its solution of filed neutral independent manufacturer – to provide solutions to health organizations of filed consolidated and disaster recovery to help them improve assistance medical supply their patients.
Archiving and disaster recovery based on cloud, with higher levels of flexibility, scalability, access and security of the complex and diverse assets of large data, can help to eliminate problems related to the interoperability of systems and recovery disaster, moving the data to the exterior while maintaining their independence compared to existing systems. Joint solutions from NetApp and Iron Mountain offer market proposed innovative cloud enable health organizations:
-Control storage growth and reduce costs. Cloud storage offers a payment model for safe and flexible use. Health organizations use so only what they need and avoid large capital expenditures required for proprietary storage solutions and long term. Operating costs associated with storage are usually three or four times more of the cost of maintaining the hardware involved; storage cloud solves this problem with a low-cost approach.
-To improve disaster recovery and regulatory compliance. Move the data out to the cloud represents a faster disaster recovery capability, at the same time minimizing the cost and risk of data loss. It also allows organizations to meet current standards in accordance with HIPAA, requiring a plan and disaster recovery policies to protect these data.
-Reduce the complexity of management. It departments no longer have to manage multiple storage systems with the interoperability problems that this entails. As a result, medical data are released, facilitating access and exchange of information throughout the health care chain. And, as a managed service, the data are transferred automatically and continuously to the outside and archived, freeing up staff and resources you in the management of the centres of data and tasks of archiving and backup, to focus on clinical activities and income generation.
Statements
-Ken Rubin, senior Vice President and general manager for the healthcare industry in Iron Mountain
“The explosion of clinical data, patients and images and shrinking budgets have put many health organizations against the ropes, trying to move its storage capacity and resources you to the limit.” The answer is the storage and archiving cloud. Solutions for archiving medical images offered by Iron Mountain provides the best of all worlds: unlimited capacity on the basis of pay per use, with a better disaster recovery external, cheaper and less complicated that do it yourself. “And, through our partnership with netApp, we can supply a wide variety of service options, including our hybrid cloud, everything with the alta service security and extreme reliability that require medical practitioners”.
-Dave Nesviksy, director of business development and sales in the health sector, NetApp
“Empowering our clients to effectively manage their unstructured data and make them accessible in the healthcare process and throughout the entire health chain with service cloud is a strategic issue for NetApp in this industry.” We decided to collaborate with an industry leader like Iron Mountain because it allows us to offer an innovative solution to our clients in the healthcare industry, solving their needs for archiving and disaster recovery. This, in the end, allows our clients to focus on the provision of a service and patient care of quality that will positively affect their overall performance. “Applying technology in this sense has a significant impact to adjust us to demand the healthcare industry”.
Additional resources
-Read how industry leaders have adopted the cloud for its real benefits on business and find out how NetApp can help your company to go further, faster, click here.
-Watch videos from NetApp on NetApp Cloud playlist, here.
-More details on the NetApp partner program for Cloud services providers, which provides ample resources and support in the whole cycle of the solution, from design to the arrival on the market, click here.
-More information about NetApp StorageGRID here and in the section dedicated to innovative NetApp for the healthcare industry solutions, here.
-Follow NetApp on Twitter, http://twitter.com/netapp, and NetApp Cloud at www.twitter.com/NetAppCloud
-Connect with NetApp experts and stakeholders in storage within the NetApp community technology, by clicking here.
-More information on solutions and technologies for the management of health information from Iron Mountain here.
-Follow to Iron Mountain on Twitter, here.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides services for information management that help organizations to reduce costs, risks and inefficiencies in the management of digital and physical data. The company solutions allow clients to protect and make better use of your information – regardless of its format, location and stage of the cycle, so that they can optimize their business and ensure a proper recovery and conformity of the data. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data and emails from organizations around the world. Follow us on Twitter, @ IronMountain, for more information.
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