Dell unveils Medical Archiving and PowerEdge C 6100 solutions to boost healthcare efficiency

Dell today unveiled solutions to enable healthcare, higher-education and government organizations to better use technology to manage data, conduct research and fulfill their missions in a more efficient and secure manner.

“Medical Archiving provides them with an open, cost-efficient means of storing, sharing and analyzing this expanding pool of valuable content to improve patient care and operational decision making.”

Dell Medical Archiving and PowerEdge C 6100 for HPC are elements of Dell’s overarching enterprise strategy to deliver open, capable and affordable solutions that help organizations capitalize on next-generation efficiency and avoid the cost and complexity of proprietary technology from other vendors.

The solutions are backed by Dell Perot Systems’ expertise in providing public-sector organizations with services that reduce complexity related to IT deployment, planning and management.

Medical Archiving Solutions to Drive Healthcare Efficiency

Precipitated by an explosion of digital data in healthcare created by Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS), digital pathology and genomics and regulatory requirements dictating its management and archiving, hospitals around the world are facing mounting data-storage challenges. A recent Dell-sponsored HIMSS Analytics survey, small and medium hospital IT executives identified the scaling and management of storage and data security among their greatest IT productivity and scaling challenges.

In response, Dell has developed object-based Medical Archiving. Based on the upcoming Dell DX Object Storage Platform, the Dell Medical Archiving Solution enables healthcare organizations to efficiently access, store and distribute data while meeting regulatory guidelines that prescribe how organizations store and manage data. The Solution accomplishes this through:

• Intelligent, policy-driven storage that uses metadata to automatically manage the length and location of content storage, reducing IT overhead and helping to avoid human error.
• Open, industry-standard access protocols that allow organizations to choose their preferred independent software vendor platform.
• A self-managing, highly available “nearline” archive for medical content, engineered to provide seamless integration of future storage technology.
• Alignment of data with the appropriate storage to help lower expenses.

“Hospitals around the world are under tremendous pressure to tighten budgets while managing growing amounts of information,” said Paul Bell, president of Dell’s Global Public-Sector Business. “Medical Archiving provides them with an open, cost-efficient means of storing, sharing and analyzing this expanding pool of valuable content to improve patient care and operational decision making.”

PowerEdge C6100 Drive Cost and Power Efficiencies in Higher Education, Healthcare and Government

Universities, medical researchers and healthcare organizations worldwide rely heavily on HPC technology to conduct research that benefits society. However, the density of HPC systems exerts a significant power-and-cooling burden on a data center’s capabilities, forcing organizations to continually invest in costly facility upgrades.

The new Dell PowerEdge C6100 is the latest evidence of Dell’s commitment to energy-efficient solutions. By including features such as high-efficiency fans and power supplies, the PowerEdge C6100 reduces power consumption while meeting rigorous HPC density demands – effectively enabling researchers to do more with less.

“Energy and cost efficient, this solution makes computational computing available to more researchers and scientists in hospitals and universities worldwide,” said Paul Bell. “And rapid time to market means they will have access to the latest, most relevant HPC technology to conduct vital research.”

The PowerEdge C6100’s unique shared infrastructure and single-node serviceability also save space, weight and time, enabling organizations to focus investments on innovation instead of facilities upgrades. Expedited time-to-market means they can take advantage of the latest processors and emerging technologies, oftentimes more quickly than traditional enterprises.

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Judy Hanover, IDC Health Insights

Growth in the use of imaging in diagnosis and treatment, and the sophistication of digitized images, coupled with the storage requirements of the burgeoning EMR space, are putting a major strain on hospitals’ storage infrastructures. There is need for solutions like medical archiving that help hospitals deal with storing and accessing patient data and images in a way that is cost-effective and manageable for the long term.

Dr. Henry Tufo, professor of Computer Science and director of Research Computing, University of Colorado at Boulder

We’re using high performance computing to conduct research in areas like climate modeling and genetic research. Needless to say, we need that technology to be extremely efficient, and we need it to be quickly deployable. Dell’s solution addresses both of these needs by removing the features we don’t need and expediting the delivery of technology we count on for critical research.