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managing technology By Sarah Lamberti The Business Continuity Plan Creating a Secure Imaging Infrastructure As imaging departments become increasingly digital, many are using different components of data storage, protection, migration and archiving to fit different pieces of the business continuity puzzle together to provide a seamless and continual flow of images and data across the enterprise while providing secure backups without impacting patient care. Having a plan is the first step. away to satisfy disaster recovery and HIPAA requirements. “Three blocks just didn’t seem like enough,” says Brey, who felt backup tapes were not a sufficient level of protection for the hospital’s valuable data. After consulting with Agfa, Reedsburg chose InSite One’s InDex Recovery. In the event of a disaster, data can be accessed and viewed via the internet by any authorized hospital personnel. Now, images are sent to an offsite facility in Phoenix for duplicate storage, providing Brey with the geographical distance she preferred for safeguarding data. “Things can happen that you certainly don’t anticipate—just three blocks away could have ruined everything,” she says. Since InSite One is a preferred vendor through the Amerinet buying group, the hospital gained additional cost-savings on top of InSite’s fee-per-study pricing. If the hospital ever has to use the system, Brey notes her confidence in how InSiteOne will recover imaging data. “Luckily, we really haven’t had to use it,” she concludes. “We just check to make sure it works.” Data, server consolidation for faster recovery Atlantic Health, a two hospital, 1,133-bed health system in Morristown, N.J., had reached the end of its HP storage lifecycle and began evaluating its entire information lifecycle management strategy to move critical data closer to its customers. With storage volume increasing, the backup window started to take a while to complete. Consolidating critical data in a way that optimizes protection in large organizations typically means consolidating to a storage area network (SAN), however, “SAN is expensive,” according to Pat Zinno, director of infrastructure services and support. “We wanted to be able to tier and scale vertically and horizontally across our data,” Zinno says. The health system has two EMC Centera systems and two EMC Symmetrix DMX3 SANs at the health center’s recovery data center. Atlantic already had Healthimaging.com Duplicate storage for peace of mind An offsite location for duplicate storage takes away a lot of the headaches associated with disaster recovery, says Laurelynn Brey, radiology director and PACS administrator at Reedsburg Area Medical Center in Reedsburg, 28 Health Imaging & IT | august 2008 Wis. “It is like having an insurance policy.” In November 2006, the 25-bed critical access medical center went live with Agfa Healthcare’s IMPAX PACS, and at the same time, decided to duplicate data on tape and send them to a storage center three blocks http://Healthimaging.com

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