Healthcare Solutions Provided by Rorke Data and StorageTek

Now that we've made it through Y2K, HIPAA regulations are here! Because Rorke Data and StorageTek has been providing archive and storage solutions to the healthcare community for almost a decade, we are ready to help enable our customers to meet HIPAA compliance for data management, disaster recovery, and security.

Just as you wouldn't go to your local dentist for open heart surgery, why go to anyone but a storage specialist for your archive and storage needs. StorageTek has been providing storage for mission critical data for over 32 years with 22,000 customers in 50 countries worldwide.

See how we can help you with HIPAA Enablement.

Healthcare
Healthcare solutions from StorageTek® are designed to meet the specific needs of the healthcare industry and the demanding nature of healthcare information retrieval. This includes data management needs associated with radiology, pathology, cardiology, and various aspects of healthcare administration. StorageTek's solutions integrate your healthcare enterprise using the appropriate technology for your performance and budget needs.

Archiving solutions for PACS (Picture Archive Communication Systems) are sold in association with key PACS partners Siemens Medical Solutions, Philips Medical Systems, Agfa Healthcare, Kodak Health Imaging, and Rorke Data. Additional partners may also apply.

Features

The StorageTek healthcare solutions portfolio consists of a 3-tier solution:

Storage Essentials
StorageTek offers various configurations of hardware and software alternatives that can be readily implemented, supported and managed. These solutions include the following (which address HIPAA issues and other privacy and security needs to varying degrees):

• Disaster Recovery
• Archiving Solutions for PACS - Picture Archive Communication Systems
• Email Archive
• Video Surveillance
• Professional Services for Healthcare

Storage Enhancements
StorageTek provides healthcare solutions that help you effectively address your data management needs on an ongoing basis, while accounting for best practices and processes that will help move your enterprise forward. Services include the following:

• Healthcare Risk Management Assessment - an enterprise-wide validation and assurance assessment for continued HIPAA compliance
• Systems Performance Archive Assurance - a review of archival storage infrastructure configuration and performance
• Remote Managed Storage - remote storage management, monitoring, and reporting
• Enterprise Support Services - third party hardware and software maintenance and support
  

Strategic Storage
Our third group of storage solutions assists your company with managing your data management needs from a strategic perspective as well as on a long-term basis. Solutions include the following:

• HIPAA Privacy/Security Analysis
• Archive Refresh Technology Strategy - for strategizing and configuring effective archival upgrades
  

Benefits

Cost savings
StorageTek’s integrated healthcare solutions leverage the storage hierarchy to take advantage of cost savings as information’s value declines.

Consolidation
Create a shared storage resource and integrate data management across the healthcare enterprise.

Reduced administration time and costs
StorageTek’s Application Storage Manager™ (ASM) software, a core component of the healthcare solution, automates data management and retrieval across a storage hierarchy via user-defined policies.

Compliance
StorageTek’s healthcare solution helps you meet compliance requirements relating to records retention and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).