KishHealth System Chooses HP Converged Storage

Hewlett-Packard
Development company, L.P. announced that KishHealth System, a community
health provider, has selected HP Converged Storage to improve patient care by
accelerating medical record delivery.

DeKalb, IL.-based KishHealth System
provides outpatient services in 13 facilities across Northern Illinois. To
speed medical record delivery and eliminate hand-written errors, it
wanted to transition from hard copy to digital records. This required a
scalable platform that could support the capacity demands for storing medical
images on its Agfa Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).
KishHealth also sought to increase data center performance to improve response
time of its Meditech electronic medical records (EMR) system.

Upgrading its infrastructure with HP 3PAR
StoreServ Storage, HP StoreOnce Backup and HP StoreAll Storage has enabled
KishHealth to increase performance, capacity utilization and availability for
medical records and imaging applications while simplifying IT administration.

"To
ensure the highest-quality patient care, KishHealth needed a storage platform
capable of maintaining maximum performance while scaling to accommodate our
expanding digital medical records and communication requirements,"
said Patrick Yonke, senior systems administrator, KishHealth. "HP Converged Storage meets KishHealth’s
long-term capacity needs while improving workflow quality and efficiency to
ensure our patients don’t have to wait for quality care."

Converged Storage, a key component of
Converged Infrastructure, integrates scale-out federated software with standardized
hardware platforms that leverage proven HP technology, enabling KishHealth to:

• Accelerate patient medical record routing
  to more than 250 physicians and 1,300 employees via HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage,
  which improved KishHealth’s Meditech EMR system response time 60%.
• Increase workflow productivity with
  StoreOnce Backup deduplication combined with HP partner BridgeHead Software Ltd.‘s Integrated
  Serverless Backup, which improved system performance and application
  availability by reducing EMR data backup time from six hours to just minutes.
• Lower data center TCO with StoreOnce
  Backup and 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software. StoreOnce Backup reduced
  KishHealth’s PACS data storage consumption by 92% with deduplication
  capabilities that consolidate data and increase disk storage efficiency on the
  backup system. Thin provisioning maximizes capacity utilization, eliminating
  the healthcare provider’s need to purchase additional hardware as EMR
  repository requirements increase. Thin provisioning reduced overall storage
  capacity by 62% through the creation of a centralized pool of available
  storage.
• Improve data center efficiency using the
  3PAR Management Console, which enables to administer and optimize
  storage systems via a single window, including remote replication to DR sites,
  nondisruptive online system upgrades and system performance monitoring.
• Increase medical staff productivity though
  centralized management of StoreAll Storage, which speeds image retrieval
  times by increasing storage capacity and flexibility while reducing costs for
  Agfa PACS medical imaging data.

KishHealth also transferred its VMware View
Client Virtualization software to the 3PAR StoreServ Storage system to
better manage its client environment. This provides improved desktop computer
performance and enhanced data center control along with security of both the
EMR and PACs data with reduced wait times for employees, doctors and patients.

"Healthcare institutions seeking to improve
patient care can’t risk application performance decline and workflow
disruptions with legacy data centers incapable of meeting digital medical
record system capacity requirements," said Chris Riley, VP, US, storage, HP. "In addition to scalability
to accommodate future digital record growth, HP Converged Storage delivers
around-the-clock availability and increased application performance, enabling
KishHealth to improve the quality as well as responsiveness of patient care."