Digital Record Center™ for Medical Images
Key Metrics About Your Medical Imaging Studies
Faced with rapidly growing storage needs and PACS
utilization, healthcare providers must be able to
manage and plan for future storage requirements.
Administrators need tools to help them monitor PACS
performance, evaluate their storage solution, comply
with HIPAA and other regulations, and plan for future
technology investments.
To meet these needs,Iron Mountain provides a series of
storage management reports that capture key metrics
about the medical imaging studies stored in the Iron
Mountain Digital Record Center for Medical Images.
These reports are provided at no charge and are sent
using encrypted email for security purposes.
Regular reporting is one more way that Iron Mountain
helps you meet the challenge of health information
management.
BETTER INFORMATION MEANS BETTER STORAGE MANAGEMENT.
Our reporting helps you:
Validate chain of custody. Compliance with HIPAA and
other regulations is a major concern. Iron Mountain’s
medical imaging reports provide summary as well as
detailed information on all transactions between your
PACS and Iron Mountain. This information can be used
to validate the information in your PACS, confirm the
retrieval of archived records, and verify the destruction
of studies that have met regulatory retention
requirements.
Manage your storage costs. As the volume and size of
imaging studies grow, so do your storage costs. Your
medical imaging reports help you track and manage
your medical imaging archive expenses. For example,
trend reports show you the number of studies stored
and amount of storage used over time, and other key
criteria — so you can get a handle on how much
storage you are using and why.
Plan future needs. The more you know about your
current and past medical imaging storage usage, the
better you can plan for the future. Your medical
imaging reports help you see trends and predict future
needs, such as how a new modality will impact storage
requirements, whether you need to invest in more
bandwidth,or to help you evaluate the projected growth
of your storage requirements based on past trends.
Gain peace of mind. Medical imaging reports validate
your storage usage and management decisions, and
help you identify any problems that may occur before
they happen, not after.
MEDICAL IMAGING REPORTS
As a customer of Iron Mountain’s Digital Record Center
for Medical Images, you receive a set of reports each
month that provide a snapshot of your medical imaging
storage activities as well as storage trends over time.
These reports are designed to provide
essential information to help you
manage your medical imaging
storage usage, access, and costs.
The following reports are currently
available:
Transactional Detail
This report provides a detailed list of
all studies that have been ingested,
retrieved, updated, and deleted by
Iron Mountain’s Digital Record Center
for Medical Images within the defined
reporting period. Administrators get
a detailed view of image transactions that can be used
to verify that Iron Mountain storage and PACS records
are in sync, track specific PACS studies to verify
activities, and provide a backup record in the event of
an audit on the PACS.
Transactional Summary
This report is a summary of transactional activities
across all studies and departments in the defined
reporting period. A high-level snapshot, this report is
ideal for sharing with senior management, providing
an overview of monthly study activity without getting
bogged down in details. As with the Detail report, the
Summary report helps verify PACS activities and
provides a backup record for audits.
Archive Volume Growth and Growth Rate
This report provides a graphic representation of
storage growth over time (see figure). This is useful for tracking past departmental performance and for
getting a handle on how quickly study volume is
growing. Monitoring study volume growth and
performance over time can also help administrators
assess and proactively manage bandwidth needs.
Archive Volume Summary
This report presents a simple summary of storage
volume consumed in the Digital Record Center for
Medical Images, and is ideal for presenting to senior
management to review archive usage.The report is not
“over time” but rather a snapshot of total storage use
to date. The information provides a monthly
checkpoint and can be used to compare with similar
reports that may be generated by your PACS.
ARCHIVE VOLUME TRENDS
Trend reports provide a picture of storage use overtime, helping you understand past costs and anticipate future needs.
ANOTHER REASON TO CHOOSE IRON MOUNTAIN
Iron Mountain is committed to supporting your
imaging needs. Our reporting capabilities are part of
the total solution available from Iron Mountain’s
Digital Record Center for Medical Images. If you have
any questions about our medical imaging services,
please contact your Iron Mountain representative.
Iron Mountain operates in major markets worldwide, serving thousands of customers
throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.
For more information, visit our Web site at www.ironmountain.com