Health records storage management and systems

Healthcare cloud induces benefits in storage, security

Healthcare sees value in vacating the premises and migrating to the cloud for lower maintenance costs and better storage, disaster recovery, security, AI and analytics. Continue Reading

Insurers join forces to control value-based healthcare delivery

Commercial insurers are key drivers in the transition to value-based care in health systems through joint ventures, analytics and greater control over delivery of patient care. Continue Reading

Collective Medical software enables ERs to share patient info

Software from Collective Medical is helping ERs in Oregon share patient data almost immediately. Here's a look at how that kind of connectivity is benefiting one hospital. Continue Reading

Transition to value-based care needs data integration

By using AI-powered data analytics from DOS, providers could have a holistic view of a patient's treatment plan, while patient data is secured with Microsoft Azure cloud service. Continue Reading

Integration of PGHD boosts remote patient management

End users of a patient-generated health data program talk about the advantages and challenges they encountered first hand, including connection problems from the patient device end. Continue Reading

Allscripts plans to make PDMP data accessible in EHRs

Allscripts partners with Appriss Health to make access to PDMP data easier and available to clinicians within their workflows. Continue Reading

Learn about the leading EHR software products and their features

Read in-depth about leading EHR tools on the market and how their capabilities, pricing and implementation offerings and mobile features can match up with organization needs. Continue Reading

HIEs provide access to patient records in wake of Hurricane Michael

By October 18, Hurricane Michael, the strongest U.S. storm in terms of maximum sustained wind speed since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, left 35 people dead and displaced over 300,000 people in Florida, ... Continue Reading

Compare EHR systems with these key features in mind

Compare EHR software options and look at the features they offer healthcare organizations for mobile access, certifications, reporting, workflow automation and document management. Continue Reading

Considering a cloud-based EHR system? Here's what to know

Implementing an EHR platform in the cloud can offer healthcare organizations lower costs and more accessibility, but they must be aware of connectivity and infrastructure drawbacks. Continue Reading

The importance of EHR tools in today's healthcare industry

A strong EHR system can effectively acquire and centralize vital patient information like lab orders, medications, medical history and referrals, if buyers know what they need. Continue Reading

For healthcare data storage of IoT and AI info, consider flash

With IoT and AI-driven data growing in healthcare organizations, a consultant suggests providers look into flash storage to take advantage of the technology's speed. Continue Reading

Flash storage trends in healthcare point to NVMe, QLC

In the alphabet soup of storage technologies, two that health IT professional should pay attention to are QLC and NVMe -- both of which boost flash options. Continue Reading

How can flash storage aid medical imaging archive needs?

Expert Brien Posey breaks down why flash storage may not be the best choice for medical imaging archiving in terms of speed and cost, and how it may be useful for other purposes. Continue Reading

What technology can make medical records retrieval more efficient?

When healthcare providers need to retrieve medical records from an EHR, keeping in mind where the data is stored will affect how quickly and efficiently the records can be accessed. Continue Reading

What medical records storage requirements should you insist on?

Expert Brien Posey explains the storage requirements healthcare organizations should insist on before choosing a vendor and system for their medical records. Continue Reading

Blockchain can help improve the quality of patient care

Improving patient care quality is an ongoing conversation among healthcare professionals. Learn how the implementation of blockchain can make a difference. Continue Reading

How is hyper-convergence technology used in healthcare?

Expert Brien Posey explains how hyper-convergence can help healthcare sites better use desktop virtualization, including for storage and scaling needs. Continue Reading

Medical imaging data enables modern healthcare strategies

Medical images make up a large percentage of healthcare data. Providers can draw insights from that data to make better decisions about patient care. Continue Reading

Medical imaging storage strategies aim for the cloud

Three health IT pros look at the challenges to full-blown cloud adoption and explain why hybrid cloud is a popular approach to storing medical images. Continue Reading

Analyzing stored medical image data helps picture the future

The analytics performed on medical images adds a new dimension to clinical data. For providers, this trend boosts population health management and precision medicine efforts. Continue Reading

Medical image storage sharpens focus on precise patient care

Personal photos in an album can conjure up all sorts of memories and emotions. Then there are personal photos of another kind that can mean the difference between life and death. In healthcare, clinical images of patients are critical to proper diagnosis and treatment. Once placed in envelopes and stored on metal shelves, those images -- be they X-rays, CT scans or MRIs -- now come in digital formats and have proliferated to the point where on-premises storage is cumbersome and inefficient. Hospital CIOs see the cloud as the answer to medical image storage and improved patient care by providing doctors with quick and ready access to medical images.

In the January issue of Pulse, our editor's letter takes that capability one step further, allowing IT pros to perform medical image analytics that can add a whole new dimension to population health management and precision medicine. Along those lines, our cover story examines the growing healthcare trend of vacating the premises … but not entirely. Security, privacy and control issues have prevented CIOs from going fully to the cloud. Instead, they're opting for hybrid cloud architectures. In another feature, we stress the importance of readily accessible and well-organized medical image storage in the cloud to make analytics performance more efficient and better at determining patient outcomes for individuals and large populations.

Also in this issue, we highlight the benefits of using a hybrid cloud storage approach to mine and analyze vast amounts of critical data from those images. Beneficial features include security, file activity monitoring, data loss prevention, data mining, disaster recovery, storage bursting, tiering, testing and cost controls.

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Store medical images using hybrid cloud data storage

Hospitals that face an influx of medical imaging data can benefit from a hybrid cloud model to store data and enable disaster recovery services. Continue Reading

Medical imaging storage strategies aim for the cloud

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Medical imaging data enables modern healthcare strategies

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Healthcare data storage options

The volume of healthcare data is growing exponentially, and organizations have to figure out how to store it all. This guide looks at possible healthcare data storage options. Continue Reading

Artificial intelligence makes scanning medical records easier

Medical-records scanning can be costly and time-consuming for healthcare organizations that want to go paperless. Artificial intelligence can ease the process. Continue Reading

The vendor neutral archive market heats up as technology advances

As technology advances, health systems are increasingly adopting vendor neutral archives to store, share and analyze medical images from multiple specialties, not only radiology. Continue Reading

With healthcare disaster recovery systems, storage options evolve

As cyberattacks continue to hit health data networks with alarming frequency, providers are increasingly turning to hybrid cloud and other forms of healthcare disaster recovery. Continue Reading

Security gets interactive with HIPAA compliance assessment app

The release of a security risk assessment tool to assist providers with HIPAA compliance was announced by the Department of Health and Human Services. Continue Reading

Quiz: PACS integration with other imaging systems and EHRs

Implementing a PACS requires preparation and adjustments to be made along the way. Take this quiz to test your knowledge of hospital imaging systems. Continue Reading

Checklist: Can your IT infrastructure support an EHR solution?

Some facilities are just now doing an EHR implementation; others are ripping and replacing existing EHRs. Make sure your IT infrastructure is ready. Continue Reading

The five crucial steps to achieving PACS integration

Organizations exploring their PACS options must first determine how their system will be used and where it will be hosted, among other concerns. Continue Reading

Hospital system addresses IBM SVC performance, stability problems with alternative configuration

Spectrum Health breaks up IBM SVC eight-node cluster, taking uncommon tiered approach to improve stability and performance of storage virtualization system. Continue Reading

FAQ: What is health data archiving?

Data archiving lets health care providers store patient records for years, as state and federal laws require. This FAQ addresses types of storage, outsourcing and other concerns. Continue Reading

UMHS uses tiered data archiving system to manage medical records

University of Michigan Health System uses a tiered archiving system of disk and tape instead of backup to protect and access critical large-image patient medical files stored on picture archiving and communication systems. Continue Reading

FAQ: How is server virtualization technology used in health care?

Server virtualization technology helps organizations cut maintenance and administration costs while improving performance. But health care providers must keep a few things in mind. Continue Reading

Overcoming barriers to healthcare storage virtualization

The CEO of BridgeHead Software discusses the top five barriers in achieving healthcare storage virtualization and best practices for overcoming them. Continue Reading

Tiered storage, SANs essential for electronic health records, images

Image and electronic health record data storage are a long-term problem for health care IT administrators. Tiered storage and SANs can help prioritize management. Continue Reading