EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that eClinicalWorks, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems with more than 25,000 healthcare provider customers, has consolidated and enhanced security of its IT infrastructure using EMC, RSA and VMware solutions. As a result, eClinicalWorks has successfully managed rapid business growth, dramatically lowered operational costs and increased the availability and reliability of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) EMR solution.
Matt Lewis, eClinicalWorks' general manager of information systems and Software as a Service (SaaS), said, "The EMR has become the number one technology best practice to help healthcare providers deliver better patient care and increase efficiency. The increasing demand for EMRs has caused our business to grow by approximately 460 percent over the last three years. We anticipate our growth to continue at a fast rate into at least the next year."
As part of its information infrastructure, eClinicalWorks relies on EMC CLARiiON(R) to store patient data for hospitals and medical practices hosting their EMR applications at eClinicalWorks datacenters. Eight datacenters house CLARiiON Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions and serve as production sites and disaster recovery destinations for the other datacenters, where its CLARiiON systems are installed. eClinicalWorks uses EMC MirrorView software and EMC SnapView to support its disaster recovery plan and to enable compliance with HIPAA.
"In two years, we've built eight new datacenters," said Lewis. "However, through consolidation, we've reduced our operational costs by 40 percent, enabling us to absorb a 65 percent increase in power rates over the last three years without having to raise the price of our hosted services."
Based in Westborough, Mass., eClinicalWorks used VMware ESX server to consolidate physical servers as virtual machines, which are stored on the EMC CLARiiON systems.