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strategy, Norton began replicating offsite data as well. “Centera’s platform has been great for that.” Agfa did a good integration job as well, he reports. With the current set-up, O’Mahoney is confident that the organization can manage data growth. “EMC has a growth plan for Centera. We’ve expanded that particular Centera three times since we put it in, and haven’t had a problem.” New initiative The next initiative for O’Mahoney is establishing a second fullservice data center at which 70 percent of current capacity will be replicated. “We would drastically reduce, compared to our current capabilities, the time it would take to get [the CVIS] and McKesson—patient safety-critical applications—back online.” In case Centera failed, “we can access the same data from our replicated offsite Centera,” he says. That replication occurs over an IP connection. The data center is essentially a data bunker, he says, and “we feel confident that we would be able to pull data from the remote site with no trouble.” Because the Agfa Impax Cardiovascular database tracks the location of all data and is on SAN, O’Mahoney would have the necessary information to rebuild. “The disaster recovery scenario for us would be going to that site, acquiring some servers from our hardware vendors and standing up those servers.” Since bringing PACS on board for cardiology imaging purposes, “those applications have become very critical to how we care for patients,” he says. Norton has the luxury, however, of the ability to fall back to film for cardiology imaging. All EKG and cath studies go to the CVIS and CT and MR data goes to McKesson PACS, so doctors can still print film. “If we’re offline, it doesn’t necessarily endanger a patient’s life,” O’Mahoney says. O’Mahoney says that creating the new data center is “probably the single most important change we can make to our disaster recovery plan right now.” He says he’ll feel more comfortable once the new center is ready to take over the load in the event of a catastrophic failure. information vendors are offering storage capabilities, Moeller said that her experience with InSiteOne made it easy to decide to continue working with them. “Personally, I see that data are just going to continue to grow,” she says. O’Mahoney agrees. “The amount of data that we deal with now that we’re talking about electronic records and huge image files is approaching that of other industries. Both in complexity and elegance, as well as the amount of data, I think healthcare will quickly surpass other industries.” Leave the Counting to Us With WaveMark CIMS you’ll always have what you need WaveMark CIMS captures inventory and usage information in real-time with RFID-enabled cabinets and bins. Information is available via a web browser empowering hospitals to intelligently set target inventory levels, manage expiring products, track lot and serial #s, identify usage patterns, provide accurate charge capture, optimize bulk buys, and more. A web-based solution with a low monthly service fee, means no capital expense or up-front fees. Call 877-4WAVEMARK, or visit us at “With WaveMark we are now able to reduce the manual work of inventory tracking.” —Halsey Bagg, Director, Cardiac Services Data growth on the horizon Despite noticing that more and more equipment and image and www.wavemark.net CardiovascularBusiness.com Cardiovascular Business http://www.wavemark.net http://www.wavemark.net http://CardiovascularBusiness.com

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Cardiovascular Business - January/February 2008 Contents The Ticker: Quality Pays in Several Ways Cover Story: The Proof: Why Evidence-based Medicine Improves Cardiac Care Clinical Study Digest: Co-payments and Cath Labs Cardiac PET/CT Fills in Gaps Left by SPECT Tapping into IT to Improve the Office-Based Practice SPECT–Proving Its Value Cardiac Images in the EMR: Just a Click Away The Top 20 Ways to Market Your Cardiac CTA Practice The Big Picture: Medical Displays for Cardiac Images Statins Work But Pharmacoeconomic Caveats Abound Driving Data Protection: Opting for Storage On- or Offsite News & Views Calendar Reader’s Resource

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