Accommodating HIPAA And PACS Data At Fort HealthCare—Without The Brain Surgery

Exponential data growth—fueled by the adoption of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) dataretention regulations—leaves medical IT groups struggling to design and deploy storage systems that can accommodate both current and future storage requirements. Traditional, inflexible storage area network (SAN) architectures simply cannot scale to accommodate the unpredictable data loads the future promises. Downtime and other hidden costs can make even simple expansion prohibitive.

Fort HealthCare in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, resolved the capacity-planning problem with a new Magnitude 3D storage solution from Xiotech Corporation. Magnitude 3D's on-the-fly scalability—the ability to add storage capacity without planned downtime—offers an easy-to-manage solution that can scale virtually with no upper limits. Magnitude 3D can handle all the data PACS and HIPAA will throw at it ... and more.