A Cloud Storage Solution for Unstructured Data
A Climate that Demands a New Storage Approach
Today, healthcare providers are facing the “perfect storm,” marked by
explosive data growth, tighter regulations and reduced access to capital.
With these changes comes not only great progress, but also challenges in
need of modern solutions.
Healthcare providers are seeing exponential growth of digital information,
from medical images to the Electronic Health Record (EHR). The volume
alone has multiplied at incredible rates, while file sizes and the use of new
modalities continue to grow. The combination has created a myriad of storage
cost, protection and management challenges.
Beyond the sheer volume challenges, PACS and related data are often
trapped in storage silos and locked to the applications that created them.
This makes it difficult to move, share and access that information, ultimately
impeding patient care.
Regulations are becoming more stringent relative to privacy and security
breaches and disaster preparedness, adding to the management challenge.
Finally, with the recent economic volatility, budgetary cutbacks are forcing
tough prioritization, from disaster recovery and archiving solutions to the ongoing
migration to the EHR. Choosing between revenue generation and patient
care — versus infrastructure investments — presents an unprecedented set of
factors.