Medical Archiving

Banner Health, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in the U.S., performs more than 800,000 radiology and cardiology procedures annually, including CTs, MRIs and digital mammographies. Banner turned to HP when the Arizona Regional Picture Archiving and Communication System Archive needed to house and ensure the integrity, availability, and security of this confidential data in accordance with federal regulations.

• Store records from more than 800,000 annual radiology/cardiology procedures
• Access stored images across seven Arizona hospitals reliably and quickly
• Establish a cost-effective storage solution that scales with growing imaging requirements
• Comply with Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) regulations
• Support multiple existing picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) in multiple locations

• HP Medical Archiving solution to archive medical images
• Distributed, multi-tier storage solution configurable with ILM policies to archive data based on its value
• Grid technology for redundancy and fault tolerance

• Enable data imaging access and integrity across multiple facilities
• Ensure excellent patient care via quick and reliable access to storage-intensive images
• Leverage existing hardware/software infrastructure and wide area network to better manage costs as the image database grows
  

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