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BOSTON, Mar 01, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Iron
Mountain Incorporated, (NYSE: IRM), an information management
services company, today announced an enhanced version of its Digital
Record Center(R) for Medical Images, a cloud storage service forbacking
up and archiving digital medical information. Now offering greater
levels of flexibility, scalability, access and security, the new hybrid
cloud service adds an optional onsite storage component to complement
its existing cloud service. The combination allows healthcare
organizations to configure the service to meet their specific access and
disaster recovery requirements.
Today, healthcare organizations face the challenges of managing
explosive data growth while ensuring access and control over information
that originates in different silos but is needed across their
organizations. Tighter federal and industry regulations, along with
shrinking IT budgets, have led healthcare organizations to re-evaluate
how they store, access and protect their critical patient data, while
preparing for the transition to electronic health record systems.
The Iron Mountain Digital Record Center for Medical Images addresses
these enterprise storage needs by providing a single cloud storage
service for both backup and archiving. The medical imaging service
provides secure and accessible storage via a "pay-as-you-go" model, so
customers pay for only what they need and avoid the large capital
expenses required for long-term storage solutions. In addition, by
providing a "hybrid" onsite and offsite storage model, the Digital
Record Center for Medical Images ensures fast access to onsite images
and a quick recovery in the event of a disaster. This frees up both
valuable storage bandwidth and physical space that hospitals can
repurpose for clinical operations. The result is increased revenue,
improved workflow and quality patient care.
The new version of the Digital Record Center for Medical Images offers
these new capabilities:
- New Service Options - three service plans for meeting
organizations' unique needs for protection and redundancy: Mirrored
Cloud, storing two copies of each medical image offsite; Hybrid Cloud,
storing one copy onsite and one offsite; and Hybrid Cloud2, storing a
single copy onsite and two copies offsite.
- Data Shuttle Service - allows organizations to move
large volumes of data to Iron Mountain's data center faster than they
could over the Internet.
- Optional Onsite Storage - in addition to cloud storage,
a copy of archived data can also be stored onsite, enabling local
access to archived data while providing a second copy for disaster
recovery purposes.
"In this economy, we all have to do more with less, and we needed a
solution that could address security, privacy and disaster recovery
requirements that kept costs manageable without sacrificing
performance," said Joe Granneman, chief technology and security officer
for Rockford
Memorial Hospital. "I really wanted a solution where I could feel
comfortable with our backup strategy for images, getting that
intelligence of what we can send offsite versus what we can cache
locally. In choosing Iron Mountain, we felt comfortable that our storage
and archiving needs were addressed while helping to lower costs and get
medical image management off our staff's plates. With Iron Mountain's
cloud storage solution in place, we can now focus on managing our
clinical applications supporting our core mission of patient care."
For medical images, the Digital Record Center for Medical Images
seamlessly integrates into users' existing picture archiving and
communications system (PACS) environments, presenting itself as a remote
storage archive to the healthcare provider's onsite PACS. With more than
30 PACS vendors (or roughly 85 percent of the market) certifying the
service, the Digital Record Center for Medical Images works as an
extension of an organization's PACS application so data migration is
seamless and scalable. Providers can centralize and consolidate images
for more control over patient images and to lower costs.
"Cloud storage offers clear advantages above traditional solutions:
Significant cost reduction, improved disaster recovery, and simplified
storage infrastructure for hospitals," said Ken Rubin, senior vice
president of the digital healthcare solutions for Iron Mountain.
"Hospitals and healthcare organizations find themselves tested by
expanding data volumes and shrinking resources, with the added burden of
being able to share their data across the enterprise. The Digital Record
Center for Medical Images gives them unlimited storage capacity but
consumable on a 'pay-for-use' basis - the best of all worlds. Hospitals
can refocus their resources on patient care rather than tying up
precious capital on archiving and backup. The net outcome is lower
storage management costs with better data protection and without
compromising information access or patient care."
For more information on the Digital Record Center for Medical Images,
please visit http://www.ironmountain.com/documents/imaging/medical-image-archiving.html
or take a video tour of the service in the Health Information Services
Demo Center at http://www.ironmountain.com/services/flash-demo-center.html#health.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) helps organizations around the
world reduce the costs and risks associated with information protection
and storage. The Company offers comprehensive records management and
data protection solutions, along with the expertise and experience to
address complex information challenges such as rising storage costs,
litigation, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Founded in
1951, Iron Mountain is a trusted partner to more than 140,000 corporate
clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia
Pacific. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.ironmountain.com.
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