Iron Mountain collaborates with HP to
manage medical images
“We are applying the
same Storage-as-a-
Service formula for
medical imaging that
we’ve successfully
applied to other
industries,” says Ken
Rubin, senior vice
president of strategic
alliances for Iron
Mountain. “We can
offer hospitals and
imaging centers better
disaster recovery
capabilities and
lower their storage
costs versus in-house
systems.”
IRON MOUNTAIN RECENTLY ANN
ounced that it is collaborating with
HP to offer hospitals and imaging
centers a new service for protecting
and storing their rising volumes of
diagnostic images. Iron Mountain’s
Digital Record Center™ for Medical Images is a disaster recovery
and long-term archiving service
that is powered by the HP Medical
Archive Solution and leverages Iron
Mountain’s Storage-as-a-Service
expertise. The result helps healthcare providers manage on-demand
access to diagnostic images, comply
with federal laws for handling
patient data and reduce long-term
storage costs.
As a managed service, the
Digital Record Center for Medical Images provides secure, off-site backup protection without
requiring hospitals and imaging
centers to allocate storage systems, data center space, staff and
capital investments. This helps
them reduce their storage costs and
allows them to redirect resources to
clinical operations.
“We are applying the same Storage-as-a-Service formula for medical imaging that we’ve successfully
applied to other industries,” says
Ken Rubin, senior vice president of
strategic alliances for Iron Mountain, who previously served as Iron
Mountain’s senior vice president of
marketing. “We can offer hospitals
and imaging centers better disaster recovery capabilities and lower
their storage costs versus in-house
systems.”
Iron Mountain and HP will
jointly market and sell two service
offerings within the Digital Record
Center for Medical Images. The
Disaster Recovery Service provides
a secure, offsite copy of imag-
ing studies and allows timely data
recovery in the event of a disaster
at the customer site. The Disaster
Recovery and Long-term Archiving
Service eliminates onsite storage
and associated costs by providing
two protected and replicated copies
in Iron Mountain’s secure underground data bunkers in western
Pennsylvania and Missouri. With
both choices, customers pay as they
store, maximizing cost-effective-ness by eliminating inefficiencies
associated with data center space
and management overhead.
“The Digital Record Center for
Medical Images is a simple solution that fulfills all of our medical
imaging needs for both archival
storage and disaster recovery,” says
Thuan Nguyen, IT director, Seattle
Radiologists.
He adds: “Now we can access
our images as if they were on-site,
but without the cost and responsibility of maintaining a secure and
scalable storage system.”
The Digital Record Center for
Medical Images complements Iron
Mountain’s portfolio of health
information solutions. Healthcare
providers trust Iron Mountain
to solve their unique and evolving challenges of simultaneously
managing both physical and digital
records, while ensuring timely
access to patient records and
complying with the ever-grow-ing patient privacy regulations. As
providers transition to electronic
medical records, only Iron Mountain can securely manage their
analog films, protect and store their
diagnostic images with the Digital
Record Center for Medical Images,
and bridge the physical and digital
worlds with X-ray on Demand, a
film conversion service. ▲
