CHICAGO, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Conference, EMC Corporation is showcasing information storage and enterprise content management solutions that help healthcare organizations better manage the explosion of digital data. The EMC booth at RSNA (4118 South Hall) will feature solutions developed with picture archiving communications systems (PACS) and electronic health record (EHR) partners to help streamline clinical radiology workflow and meet regulatory requirements.
EMC is highlighting its newest solutions and introducing customers who illustrate its commitment to advancing information storage and management for healthcare organizations, including:
* EMC information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions that are integrated with leading PACS and EHR applications. With an ILM strategy, radiologists and other caregivers gain immediate access to live and archived images and patient records, speeding up patient-care decision making. * The new cost-effective, feature-packed EMC CLARiiON AX100 networked storage system, which gives smaller healthcare organizations with limited IT resources access to the same sophisticated applications, like PACS or EHR, that are deployed at the largest hospitals and health networks. * The leading capabilities of EMC DiskXtender software, which allows healthcare providers to easily migrate inactive, digital images to more cost-effective storage, while maintaining transparent access. * The EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management platform, which effectively enables management of millions of documents and images residing across a healthcare organization. This leading software is utilized by several of the top healthcare organizations in the world.
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System’s implementation of EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) for compliance with HIPAA and JCAHO regulations. Centera sets the standard for secure, long-term archiving of historical images and patient records to accelerate compliance while enabling instant retrieval of regulated digital assets.
“Healthcare providers are faced with significant challenges to ensure that they are able to meet stringent regulatory requirements,” said Derrell James, EMC’s Vice President, Technology Solutions. “By applying EMC’s ILM methodologies to store and manage patient images and records, they can make that information accessible anywhere and anytime it is needed, and they can formulate retention and security policies that meet HIPAA and other regulations.”
Research firm Enterprise Strategy Group predicts that data generated by compliant records in the healthcare industry will increase from 68 petabytes (68,000 terabytes) in 2003 to 238 petabytes in 2006. Additionally, consolidating and networking information to achieve a unified view of patient data can yield significant benefits in improving clinical workflow, reducing length of hospital stay and enhancing overall patient experience.
By improving online clinical workflow and building fully digitized and networked healthcare environments, physicians gain immediate access to live and archived PACS and EHR data to make real-time critical clinical decisions. EMC’s products, services, and solutions enable healthcare and life sciences organizations to create a seamless, scalable and secure information flow from drug discovery to patient care. Additional information on EMC Healthcare-Life Sciences can be found at http://www.emc.com/healthcare-lifesciences.
About EMC
EMC Corporation is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing automated networked storage solutions to help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at http://www.emc.com/.
EMC, CLARiiON, DiskXtender and Documentum are registered trademarks and Centera is a trademark of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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