Trinitas Regional Medical Center Selects Dell

Trinitas Regional Medical Center has selected Dell’s Unified Clinical Archive (UCA) solution to manage its growing
archive of clinical images.

Trinitas, a teaching hospital serving central New Jersey, needed a scalable and
application-neutral storage solution for the more than 113,000 radiology and
cardiology studies it generates each year. The hospital had outgrown its
existing storage capacity and needed a secure DR and BC solution that didn’t
rely on time-intensive tape backups. Also, as part of its effort to meet Stage
2 Meaningful Use requirements, Trinitas plans to integrate images with its
electronic medical records (EMR) system.

Dell’s vendor-neutral UCA solution allows Trinitas to store images
long-term in the Dell Cloud Clinical Archive while maintaining five years’
worth of images on-site for instant access. The cloud archive stores two copies
of every image at geographically separate locations, providing a DR
strategy without the need to maintain and manage a second data center.

Trinitas is a member of Jersey Health Connect, a 10-county New Jersey-based health information exchange (HIE) that is
committed to sharing information among participating providers to improve care
delivery and empower patients. Moving clinical images to a single cloud archive
that supports industry standards for interoperability and exchange will
facilitate EMR integration and enable image-sharing across
the HIE.

The hospital also benefits from Dell’s pay-per-study pricing model for
cloud-based archiving, which eliminates the need for any upfront capital
investment.

"Dells operational pricing model
allows Trinitas to stay focused on its mission of providing healthcare services
to the area’s most poor and vulnerable," said Judy Comitto, VP of
information services and CIO for Trinitas Regional Medical Center.

The Dell Cloud Clinical Archive is managing more than 86 million clinical
studies and more than 6 billion diagnostic imaging objects, and supporting more
than 800 clinical sites in the large vendor-neutral hybrid cloud
for medical imaging. The cloud is designed to meet the HIPAA Security Rule
standards.

Based on its analysis of the enterprise imaging informatics market, Frost & Sullivan Ltd recognized Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences
with its 2012 North American Company of the Year Award, noting that "Dell’s Unified
Clinical Archive has set the standard for cloud-based enterprise-wide
management of medical images."

"Our
existing storage was not at all scalable, and Dell brought us a solution that
will grow with our needs and provide the security and DR capabilities we require,"
said Comitto. "This cloud-based
approach provides our physicians with faster access to images, facilitates
sharing and lowers our long-term costs."

"As hospitals strive to improve care
and meet ever-changing regulatory requirements, they shouldn’t also have to be
experts in storage and management," said August Calhoun, Ph.D., VP and
GM of Dell healthcare and life sciences. "Dell is pleased to be working with Trinitas to create a secure,
cloud-based hybrid solution that meets their storage needs and fosters better
collaboration among caregivers."