Discover A New Path For Your Healthcare Data and Storage

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1 Discover A New Path For Your Healthcare Data and Storage Enable Your IT With Healthcare Storage Virtualization Using Your Data, Your Storage, Your Way

2 In healthcare IT, your mission is the smooth running of hospital operations and enablement of patient care systems and infrastructure. You are required to manage more records with ever-tightening budgets. You have exciting new opportunities to efficiently provide care services with IT, but also significant new challenges. Data growth, in particular, seems to stress hospital IT systems more than any other single factor: healthcare data is now estimated to occupy 30 percent of the world s storage. * Too often, hospitals lose much of their resources to the seemingly endless task of keeping up with all of this rapid data growth. Storage infrastructure has the tendency to be locked into specific healthcare applications and data, making migrations and upgrades very difficult. In some environments, data issues compromise the quality of care that organizations can deliver. Patient data is hard or impossible to share efficiently. Storage systems grow out of control, taking an ever-increasing proportion of IT budgets. Do these problems seem all too familiar in your healthcare organization? Keeping up with exponential growth in healthcare data Controlling costs of data and storage systems Digitizing paper records quickly enough to meet healthcare, agency, and government requirements Enabling access to patient records while safeguarding privacy Ensuring constant availability of patient records to the physicians and clinicians who need them Preserving data and providing online access through site failures and regional disasters Migrating patient data among heterogeneous systems; and from old storage devices to new as equipment ages Enabling disparate applications to work together in the same healthcare system sharing the same patient records Managing the retention of patient records cost effectively for long periods Managing data for office and administrative applications alongside specialized medical systems If these problems confront your healthcare IT organization, Healthcare Storage Virtualization might offer the practical strategy that you ve been missing for unlocking healthcare data and systems in your environment. * As reported in Survey on the Government of Unstructured Data 30 June 2008 A NEW PATH FOR YOUR HEALTHCARE DATA AND STORAGE 3

3 Virtualization opens new pathways between healthcare applications and data storage. With the sheer volume of patient information, achieving your healthcare IT mission demands complex data and storage systems. Managing these systems is equally complex. Yet it could be much simpler, easier, and more cost effective with the right data and storage management strategy. BridgeHead Software offers that strategy. Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) decouples your healthcare applications from your data storage, applying services that help unlock the value your organization can derive from the true management of its data and underlying storage infrastructure. B H M E D I S A F E Dynamic Data Protection Static Data Protection Enterprise & Clinical Apps B R I D G E H E A D H E A LT H C A R E S T O R A G E V I R T U A L I Z AT I O N A D VA N C E D S E R V I C E S ADVANCED STORAGE UTILIZATION Compression De-duplication Retention Management Healthcare Storage Virtualization H E A LT H C A R E E N T E R P R I S E & C L I N I C A L A P P L I C AT I O N S DATA MIGRATION Multi-copy Support Storage Vendor Agnostic Availability During Migration B H M E D I S T O R E Medical Image Archiving Patient Records Archiving Scanned Document Archiving CONTENT ACCESS Meta-data Indexing Full Text Indexing Federated Search Compliant S T O R A G E M E D I A DATA PROTECTION & SECURITY Backup Application Data Multi-copy Protection Encryption & Authentication B H O F F I C E S T O R E General File Archiving Archiving SharePoint Archiving HEALTHCARE INTEGRATION CIFS & Web Services DICOM & HL7 Protocols XDS Interfaces What puts the H in HSV? Healthcare systems create unique data types, which demand unique capabilities for their management. This includes integrated support for DICOM, HL7 and XDS style interfaces along with scanned document images and office applications. BridgeHead Software HSV offers support for these healthcare standards. Take medical images for example: HSV s capabilities allow the storage and management of DICOM files, serving all applications in a hospital system environment. This allows multiple applications from different manufacturers to store data in the same, central repository. Using proven BridgeHead archive capabilities, several copies of content can be created and managed across storage tiers and geographic distances. These capabilities help to ensure patient record and medical image availability, recoverability, and survivability through all types of system outages and even site disasters. Disk HSV allows data and storage to be harnessed across different healthcare systems, medical or administrative, with the following critical capabilities: Cloud Unifies storage of patient records and other healthcare information into a common, shared repository, eliminating storage silos and removing unnecessary duplication Secures data with built-in encryption and authentication Enables search and rapid retrieval of records with data indexing Optimizes use of storage with de-duplication, compression, and tiered archive to migrate data among storage types Protects data with backup, replication, and disaster recovery solutions Preserves data with options for long-term archive on lower-cost, tertiary media When patient data is managed in a common, optimized storage pool, you save money and make your existing infrastructure investments last longer. Plus, the data stored is accessible for use across applications reducing vendor lock-in. Tape Optical The value of tiered storage design As storage systems age, data migration can be performed seamlessly across tiers of storage without disrupting patient care. HSV uses this strategy to automatically relocate static data, which is older and less frequently used, to less expensive storage in a tiered storage environment. On average, 80% of healthcare data is static. Relocating it lowers costs significantly while continuing data availability. This strategy also benefits backup and recovery, which is made much simpler and significantly faster to hit those all-important backup windows. Likewise, data replication and tape rotation for disaster recovery is also less costly. 4 BridgeHead Healthcare Storage Virtualization A NEW PATH FOR YOUR HEALTHCARE DATA AND STORAGE 5

4 HSV is a strategy for healthcare data management that you can adopt immediately gain simple, fast, incremental improvement. Use HSV to Modernize and Centralize Medical Image Management Every hospital department creates its own slice of a patient s information, maintained most often with separate data stores and access methods. However, maintaining separate pools of data with dedicated storage is more expensive and less efficient to manage, than a shared centrally managed pool of data which is accessible by multiple applications. Protecting and preserving image data through system outages and site failures is critical, yet difficult to achieve across multiple applications. Centralizing data not only reduces the cost of primary storage, but makes it easier to manage for protection and disaster recovery, as well. HSV centralizes DICOM image data to simplify its management: Establish a central, standards-based DICOM repository shared and searchable by different applications Enable application migration across versions and brands while keeping DICOM image data intact Use proven replication capabilities to preserve DICOM images through system failures and site disaster Offer browser access to DICOM images across sites and departments Integration with HL7 means DICOM image and its associated data is always current Use HSV to Go Paperless without Moving Your Storage Problem from the Physical Warehouse to the Data Center Concerned with the data growth caused by mandates to move patient records from paper files to digital storage? If your best solution is to add more disks, you may soon run short on budget. Primary storage growth is just the first part of the cost problem. Protecting and preserving these records presents another level of challenge. Backup, restore, and disaster recovery storage must grow along with your primary systems. The larger your online patient data grows, the larger your protection and recovery challenge will be. HSV can help to control the costs associated with patient record conversion: Centralize and consolidate records as part of the conversion process Use tiered storage to reduce costs while retaining access to records De-duplicate and compress data to maximize storage efficiency Speed conversion times by freeing high-speed storage for ingestion processing Automate the indexing of data required for records search and retrieval Ensure secure long-term preservation of records on low-cost storage media Use HSV to Unlock Patient Records from Underlying Storage Systems with Seamless Migration As storage systems age, they must be retired and replaced. Migrating patient records can be a constant headache and drain on IT resources. Migrating data across different types and brands of storage devices can be complex, time-consuming, and a burden to manage. Manufacturers attempt to lock you in with disk-embedded capabilities limited to like-to-like storage support. HSV eases migration of patient record data across storage systems: Enable the seamless combined use of different classes of storage devices and media in the same repository Ensure availability of patient record data through storage migration with automated creation and management of multiple, redundant copies Combine use of storage from many manufacturers with vendor-agnostic storage management capabilities Gain better value from storage-embedded snapshot and replication systems with which HSV is integrated, including those from EMC, HP, and IBM Use HSV to Unify Protection and Disaster Recovery of All Data in a Healthcare System Healthcare systems include a wide variety of data including patient records, scanned images, DICOM data, , word processing, presentations and other office documents. Commonly, many types of backup and disaster recovery systems have to coexist together in the same hospital system because of the types and variety of data. Working with multiple backup, archive and disaster recovery tools increases costs and complexity. Administration teams must learn multiple systems. Storage systems and devices cannot be shared for optimal use. Vendor contracts and maintenance terms must be separately tracked and renewed. HSV simplifies healthcare data management: Protect data through automatic authentication and encryption 6 BridgeHead Healthcare Storage Virtualization A NEW PATH FOR YOUR HEALTHCARE DATA AND STORAGE 7 Unify backup and recovery for all types of data in the healthcare system Share storage systems and devices for optimal use Complement tape use for disaster recovery with high-speed, network-efficient replication Ensure all data is protected with consistent policies and reliably available Lower the burden on administration teams Lower the cost of data management across an entire healthcare system Incorporate archive in the backup strategy

5 About BridgeHead Software BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) company, offers a scalable, future-proof platform to overcome rising data volumes and increasing storage costs while delivering peace of mind around the access, availability and protection of critical electronic patient data. Trusted by more than 1,000 hospitals worldwide, BridgeHead Software solves healthcare organizations backup, recovery and archiving challenges. BridgeHead s HSV solutions are designed to operate with any hospital s chosen software applications and storage hardware, regardless of vendor. This presents healthcare organizations with more choice, flexibility and control over the way data is accessed, protected and managed. The net effect better utilization of hardware resources and, more importantly, the efficient distribution, availability and use of vital healthcare data. Learn more about BridgeHead Software at Follow BridgeHead Software on Twitter at UK BridgeHead Software Ltd. BridgeHead House 215 Barnett Wood Lane Ashtead, Surrey, KT21 2DF +44 (0) (0) fax USA BridgeHead Software, Inc. 400 West Cummings Park Suite 6050 Woburn, MA fax GERMANY BridgeHead Software Ltd. Kaiserwerther Strasse 215 D Düsseldorf - Ratingen Deutschland +49 (0) (0) fax 2010 BridgeHead Software, Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.