TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Iron
Mountain® Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the storage and information
management company, today introduced a new storage and information
management offering for Canada’s Healthcare sector. Called the Canadian
Health Information Management Solution, the offering delivers a
suite of specialized storage, digitization and access capabilities
tailored to help Canadian healthcare organizations take a holistic
approach to managing information throughout its lifecycle, ensuring data
integrity, security and privacy at every stage.
The healthcare sector has embraced electronic records as the foundation
for sharing information and delivering quality patient care. However,
the transition from paper to electronic records is not always simple.
Nor is it easy to manage information across a hybrid information
environment in which paper and digital records coexist, especially in
light of integrated health networks and shared services organizations
seeking to coordinate efficiencies in delivering health services
provincially.
Healthcare organizations are taking a more holistic approach to managing
their information in response to three main challenges. Firstly, they
need to resolve the problem of how best to get physical patient medical
records into an electronic system when much of the information they need
is stored offsite across multiple vendors. Secondly, many organizations
have different information management processes and workflows across
different departments, making it hard to access and share patient
records. Thirdly, the sector is facing a skills shortage when it comes
to information management professionals specialized in patient records.
Iron Mountain’s Health Information Management Solution offers several
benefits and services to organizations concerned with ensuring data
integrity, securing information and accessing patient records with
best-practice information governance principles. Iron Mountain’s suite
of specialized storage services will help organizations store, manage,
and safeguard health information cost-effectively, enabling them to
reduce storage costs and free up valuable real estate for clinical use
or other patient-focused functions.
Leveraging its unrivalled chain of custody, Iron Mountain offers
electronic medical record (EMR) transition support with a full suite of
paper-to-electronic document conversion services, ensuring digitized
images are ingested into existing or newly deployed EMR or other eHealth
systems. Reducing their paper intensive workflows, including moving
patient file rooms offsite, allows organizations to re-deploy human
resources to address any information management skills gaps. Iron
Mountain also offers eRecords strategy consulting, data management
services and cloud-based Information Mapping technology that allows
organizations to view their information across disparate systems.
“Iron Mountain is bringing this solution to market at a time when
Canadian healthcare organizations are seeking to improve patient care
through better and faster access to information.” said Greg McIntosh,
Senior Vice President and General Manager for Iron Mountain Canada. “We
will bring our global expertise and experience in the management of
information and are uniquely positioned to help Canadian healthcare
organizations solve their information challenges.”
Iron Mountain will be exhibiting in booth #530 at the eHealth
2015 conference from May 31st to June 3rd at
the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. And to learn more about the Iron
Mountain Health Information Management Solution in Canada, visit: http://www.ironmountain.ca/healthcare.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM)
is a leading provider of storage and information management services.
The company’s real estate network of over 67 million square feet across
more than 1,000 facilities in 36 countries allows it to serve customers
around the world. And its solutions for records
management, data
management, document
management and secure
shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with
regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information.
Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of
information assets, including business documents, backup tapes,
electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.ca
for more information.
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Source: Iron Mountain