Agilysys Healthcare Data Storage Innovations: Rapid Retrieval of Diverse Files
Agilysys Cures File Retention and Retrieval Ailments
Traditional healthcare infrastructures consist of diverse equipment acquired from many manufacturers, which generates diverse medical data and patient records. Similar diversity is found in the IT infrastructure of hospitals, clinics and other healthcare providers. The growth of electronic medical records (EMRs) is accelerating rapidly with our aging population, which needs medical attention more frequently than younger individuals. This growth in equipment and medical data diversity is making the management of EMRs cost prohibitive and limits the ability of healthcare providers to quickly retrieve patient files. Today’s providers need 24x7 access to diverse file types, while increased regulatory constraints require a secure environment that protects patient records and confidentiality.
Agilysys can supply a resilient IT framework using Hitachi Data Systems’ technology. Our solutions address the many healthcare challenges relating to protecting, consolidating, archiving and searching patient and business information.
Hitachi Content Platform
The Hitachi Content Platform is an active archive solution, as opposed to a passive repository of data. Hitachi Content Platform provides a single online repository that enables protection, search and rapid retrieval across all content types and multiple applications. This enables healthcare organizations to bring together clinical and non-clinical data from widely disparate sources. Hitachi Content Platform can integrate multiple distributed or centralized repositories such as:
Files are stored in their native format with original file names and Hitachi Content Platform allows full text indexing and search. The result is improved content availability, better security and when needed, verifiable destruction of content.
The Hitachi Solution for a Clinical Repository
Providing the foundation for a Virtual Network Architecture (VNA) that enables a highly scalable image management system with built-in web review capability and integrated electronic medical records, the Hitachi solution for a clinical repository is optimized for healthcare enterprises. It is a single unified architecture that provides interoperability across the entire healthcare IT enterprise. This avoids duplication of storage and a fundamental limitation to the scalability of systems across multiple sites; scalability extends from TB to PB storage sizes.
The Hitachi solution for a clinical repository has no proprietary protocols or Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that would lock customers into this solution. With its security features, there is protected and traceable access to medical images and records for authorized hospitals, physicians, researchers and patients. This security assists with the mandates of HIPAA and other governmentally imposed offsite storage requirements.
Services Oriented Storage Solutions
Agilysys and Hitachi Data Systems take a services oriented approach to satisfying customers’ storage infrastructure needs. Solutions are tailored to an organization’s size, existing storage assets, data and file types and operating environment. Hitachi Data Systems’ hardware and software products are the foundation for these Services Oriented Storage Solutions, providing:
These products and services include enterprise storage, modular storage, small and departmental storage and storage management software.
Hitachi Network Attached Storage Solutions
Healthcare organizations have been experiencing large increases in unstructured data, which are often held in shared file systems. This has resulted in an ever-increasing number of servers and Network Attached Storage filers. Along with escalating storage costs, this is causing difficulties in:
A powerful solution for these problems is Hitachi NAS Platform. Its massive scalability and built-in intelligence allow it to handle the most demanding healthcare environments.
Hitachi NAS Platform gives healthcare organizations the flexibility to rapidly provision more capacity as business requirements change, dramatically increasing storage utilization with exactly the capacity needed, when needed. As data moves through its lifecycle, such as aging images or documents that are rarely accessed, they can be transparently migrated from one tier of storage to another to provide the most appropriate storage media for the task.