WHY HP

Business Value: Enables Imaging Centers, Hospitals and IDNs to store and ensure availability of rapidly growing volumes of reference images reducing TCO and addressing reliability and scalability challenges.

HP Medical Archiving Solution
The HP Medical Archiving Solution(MAS) is designed to address your most pressing information issues—simply, flexibly, and affordably. HP’s Medical Archiving Solution is a complete “out-of-the-box” solution comprised of hardware(spinning disks), software, and services. It incorporates industry-standard application programming interfaces (APIs), so the solution connects directly to your existing PACS, modalities, and patient record systems with no special programming. What’s more, because the Medical Archiving Solution is implemented in a storage grid architecture, you can consolidate information from multiple applications, departments and facilities into a single storage system for all fixed content generated by your enterprise—including lab results, patient charts, and PACS images. A built-in rules engine allows you to create policies for moving information from higher tiers of storage to the medical archive automatically, based on time, data classification, frequency of access, or other parameters. MAS gives hospitals fast, reliable access to their archived data, at a price point dramatically below high end, Tier 1 storage.

Non-disruptive upgrades and expansion
With a grid architecture, the HP Medical Archiving Solution can also expand seamlessly to accommodate massive image and document growth. In fact, additional hardware can be added or upgraded with no downtime. This is especially important since the information being stored will, in many cases, long out-live the hardware. The Medical Archiving Solution is “resource aware,” so new hardware can simply be added to the grid and the archived data automatically re-built. There is no need for costly and time-consuming migrations, which can save your organization tens of thousands of dollars.

24 x 7 availability and protection
Data protection of archived information is of vital importance to business continuity and regulatory compliance. MAS delivers built-in redundancy for the 24 x 7 information access that is essential for effective patient care. In addition, with archive replication and automated failover across the grid, reference information is protected against major outages or entire site loss. Data integrity is also essential at all storage tiers, and HP employs Write Once Read Many (WORM) technology on all media in the MAS infrastructure. Whenever information is written to the archive, it receives a unique digital signature. That way, regardless of where this information moves across the grid, its integrity and authenticity is assured. HP MAS also works in conjunction with Tier 1 storage and tape systems to provide a complete architecture for information assets as they move through their lifecycle.

Scalable archives for imaging centers to
integrated delivery networks

HP's Medical Archive Solution addresses the challenge of managing large volumes of fixed content data over decades, regardless of the size of the medical organization.

HP's Medical Archive Solution can be used in small deployments, such as at imaging centers, either attached to PACS or attached directly to the imaging modality.

HP's Medical Archive Solution can be deployed at hospitals of all sizes, as well as hospital groups and integrated delivery networks. By connecting organizations into a single archive, imaging exams can be shared, studies can be interpreted anywhere within the network, with protected and traceable access to the data. Information sharing ultimately improves patient care, as radiologists gain faster access to studies and diagnoses can be performed with greater efficiency.

The HP Archive Solution is grid-based and can scale its capacity from 5 TB protected and compressed data to petabyte scale capacities across multiple sites, multiple modalities, multiple PACS, and multiple facilities.

	Cost-effective deployment consistent with healthcare budgets Cost-effective healthcare continues to be a global challenge, despite technological advances, productivity enhancements, and new treatments to advance patient care. Managing the data - both HIS and imaging related medical data - has grown in proportion with new imaging modalities, merged hospitals networks, and increased regulation requiring fixed content data to be kept for longer periods of time. With HP's Medical Archive Solution, the data can be managed without growing the staff or significant new training to manage the growing base of fixed content. That's because the centralized management and singular storage domain simplify the task. Furthermore, cost improvements in the storage infrastructure make it possible to deploy tiers of storage consistent with your IT budget, and evolving as you apply technology refreshes over time to keep your growing archive state of the art. Reliable access to medical data - today and over many years Data integrity can be a matter of life and death. That's why HP's Archive utilizes digital signatures to turn any grade and type storage hardware into a write once ready many (WORM ) device. This eliminates the ability to tamper, alter or corrupt data. The system continuously and pro-actively checks the integrity of the content stored on each node. In the event of a corrupt image, automatic self-heal triggers the use of a good copy of the image to create a new replica and restore the desired level of resiliency. Data stored and transmitted may be encrypted to ensure confidentiality. Additionally, and in an effort to comply with regulations, you may generate detailed reports showing an audit trail of all transactions. Improved radiologist effectiveness with high performance archive Several factors necessitate high performance storage and retrieval capabilities for medical imaging: Medical images are large; the number of images per study/exam continues to grow. For example, CT (Computed Tomography) has grown from 35 slices/study in the early 1980s to 140 slices/study in the 1990s; State of the art CT is now 2,240 slices/study. Over the last two decades, the cost per MB to store these images has dropped dramatically, creating today's market with the convergence of the technological and economic realities. Trends point to all spinning disk solutions. That would have been unthinkable in the 1980s and 1990s. A shortage of radiologists, combined with more complexity in interpreting medical images, contribute to the goals of improving radiologists' productivity. Acceptable retrieval times on digital images must meet the needs of the organization. With digital imaging, healthcare organizations have already been able to eliminate time spent chasing films, or time spent waiting for a single set of film-based images to circulate through multiple specialists for interpretation. HP's Medical Archive Solution utilizes a streaming transport and dynamic load balancing across computing resources - storage, bandwidth and CPU - to optimize performance, thereby providing acceptable retrieval rates for radiologists and technicians. With the HP Medical Archive Solution, radiologists can access "priors," as well as current studies with the fastest retrieval rates in the industry
Features & Benefits
	Scalable: Enables archiving to be unified regionally for multiple departments or facilities, such as Integrated Delivery Networks; allows institutions to seamlessly add storage on demand as facilities are added and volumes grow into the petabyte range. Cost-effective: Maximizes effectiveness of your staff with centralized management that Provides for system monitoring, fault reporting, configuration management, and historical reporting and audit. The use of common off-the-shelf components protects against high-priced, proprietary components. Pay-as-you-grow scalability allows archival leveraging the technology curve and protection against obsolescence. Secure: Delivers disaster recovery inherent to grid-based archive with configurations that create redundancy in data storage and connectivity Audit and reporting functions to confidently trace all access to the data. Option to protect the integrity of the data through encryption for secure data storage and transfer. High performance: Streaming transport (byte level) for study retrieval supports fast access from PACS applications to multi-frame Ultrasound and Cardiac studies unlike other archival devices with long retrieval latency by the use of store and forward caching on retrieval. Asynchronous replication leverages existing bandwidth with minimal network impact or special network requirement. Hardware obsolescence protection strategy: The architecture of MAS currently supports and will, as devices are qualified, provide the ability to upgrade storage media and storage nodes through technology refreshes over time without downtime. Maintain currency in storage by allowing planning purchases of additional storage based on volume growth and optimizing initial purchase. Efficient: Satisfies the most demanding retrieval rates for radiology, retrieving as many as 35,000 large (100 MB+) images per hour, through low latency streaming transport and dynamic load balancing across storage/bandwidth/CPU to optimize performance and availability. Uses lossless compression to maximize the use of storage space. Information Lifecycle Management: Automation based on policies using metadata for replication, retention and data placement. Automatic topology discovery to add/remove nodes from network without downtime. Access controls available to authenticate administrative access with object based reporting and auditing allow implementation of archive usage charge back. Business continuity: Real-time data replication, fault-tolerant configurations and self-healing features maximize resource availability required in mission critical healthcare environments Data Integrity across all storage grades & tiers: The use of digital signatures and proactive integrity verification HP MAS provides Write Once Read Many (WORM) for all tiers of storage. Virtual storage system with open standards: CIFS/NFS interface provides virtualization of the archive tier for PACS applications. DICOM interface is also available for direct network connectivity to Modalities and PACS components from multiple vendors.

Cost-effective deployment consistent with healthcare budgets

Reliable access to medical data - today and over many years

Improved radiologist effectiveness with high performance archive