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FEATURE healthcare data centers has layers of security, including a barrier that can stop a truck. Inside, an elaborate, multi-layer system helps ensure only authorized access to servers, Patel said. He added, "Healthcare facilities need to comply with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 70, 99, and 110 requirements, as well as Joint Commission, Medicaid, and National Electrical Code (NEC) 220.87 reporting mandates to An Alternative To On-Site Data Centers F ortunately, there are alternatives to on-site hospital of 60-year-old buildings, just isn't going to get it data centers. One of them is co-location, a choice done," he said. "They don't want to make the capital system (CPMS) helps management comply with the require- in which Rich Banta and Alex Carroll, co-owners of investment in a second generator, a second UPS ments by capturing data and producing automated reports for Lifeline Data Centers in Indianapolis, ﬁrmly believe. system, a completely redundant HVAC system, or any maintain proper accreditation. A critical power management inspection." The cost for a hospital to build a data center of the other availability requirements that the industry "A critical power management system at Bryan Medical from the ground up is $1,200 to $1,500/sq. ft., not Center in Lincoln, NE, for example, produces automated re- including maintenance and overall cost of ownership, "Once you get into these levels of availability, a ports that Joint Commission inspectors and the local ﬁre mar- according to Carroll. By contrast, Lifeline offers co- retroﬁt is not the answer. It's a total redo, and that is shal prefer to review," Patel noted. location services for about $150/sq. ft., including all really capital intensive-we can attest to that-and the certiﬁcations, upkeep, maintenance, and critical that's not capital they want to spend," Banta said. "For co-location data centers responsible for healthcare information, a CPMS enables them to report on any downtime functions such as power uptime, he said. is pushing towards." Banta emphasized that co-location is not the as part of its service level agreement (SLA). For instance, the The cost/sq. ft. to build from the ground up includes same as the cloud, and he personally doesn't see report may show that even when downtime occurred, health- the cost of the physical building: chillers, generators, hospitals going the cloud route. "A co-located data care data management was back up and running instantly, or, UPSs, power infrastructure, cabling infrastructure, and center is shared infrastructure in terms of power and say, in exactly three seconds," he said. physical security considerations. It does not include cooling; the cloud is shared infrastructure in terms of ongoing equipment maintenance, physical building and computing power and in terms of security. Everything ON SITE OR OFF? exterior maintenance, security retroﬁt, uptime retroﬁt, [in the cloud] shares a security model and shares The explosion of healthcare data poses a signiﬁcant question and facility operations, Carroll said. vulnerability, so if another resident of the cloud is for hospitals: on or off site? "Many hospitals are no longer Comparing the numbers, Banta agreed that the severely compromised, you're at risk yourself. That one-location entities, but are multi-site campuses, so data cen- prediction hospitals will not be planning new data is currently an unacceptable level of risk for anybody ters tend to be multi-sited as well, even though they may not centers in the near future is on target. who is liable for protecting patient information," he be at every campus. A Midwest data center, at which we have The cost of building a data center is not unlike power switching and controls systems, has two sites, but their building out a radiology wing, and hospitals have all In a co-location model, hospitals or other clients service is cloud-based for their healthcare clients. Large hos- kinds of standards and experts to do that, Banta said. own the hardware and equipment. "We are simply pital chains with numerous facilities probably have their own A data center is an entirely different set of disciplines. a high-tech landlord with compliance built in. It's cloud," Patel said. What hospitals learned building out a radiological area their servers, their storage equipment, and they doesn't apply, he added. own the software licenses. We provide the space, Obviously, a solution for one organization may not be a said. good ﬁt for another. "Some organizations have large main cam- "Hospitals are used to buying MRI machines and power, cooling, physical security, and access to puses with available property to construct a data center as well other radiological modalities, so high prices aren't new. telecommunication carriers," Banta said. "We are as satellite branches where disaster-recovery facilities can be Nevertheless, the cost of a data center is eye-popping, a carrier hotel with 22 telecommunication carriers constructed in order to avoid having all assets in one place. In even to them," Banta observed. "It's on their balance resident in our facility at the disposal of clients to use these instances, it can be more cost effective to construct your sheet, and they don't want it there." to connect to their data. We are also responsible for own data center network," Eaton's Carron said. "With hospitals going ﬁlmless and paperless, if IT evidence, artifacts, and preparation for audits of power "For smaller organizations without spare real estate and re- systems are down, patient care is affected, and lives gional dispersion, it may make more sense to seek out an ac- could hang in the balance," he said. "Hospitals with and cooling availability and physical security." Lifeline provides another interesting take on data credited co-location provider with robust disaster recovery in- savvy risk managers are looking to transfer that risk centers. The company's data center is located in a frastructure. Or, we've seen many smaller or independent and the associated capital expenditures as quickly as former shopping center in Indianapolis and another healthcare systems, such as TriRivers Health Partners, collabo- they can." is planned in a former big-box retail store in Fort The amount of medical data generated, and that Wayne, IN, a trend that is being seen in other parts needs to be readily available, is increasing at a rapid of the country as well. The shopping center occupied TriRivers has a 33,000 sq.-ft. hosting data center in Rock- pace. "It is orders of magnitude," Banta said. "In the by Lifeline was built during the Cold War era and ford, IL, and a backup facility at FHN Memorial Hospital in area of digitized radiology, the old standard for CT was designated as a fallout shelter. "The shell of the Freeport, IL. scanners was 64 slices. Now they have gone to 128, and building can take an EF5 tornado straight on," Banta "As far as the cloud goes, a hybrid strategy allows healthcare that chews through a lot of storage space. A radiologist said. "That's all part of the hardening and security organizations to get the best of both worlds-with the ﬂexibility pulling up your data in an emergency doesn't need a features that make data centers so expensive. Other of an outsourced cloud infrastructure and the security beneﬁts subset of your information, he needs every bit of it." limitations in siting a data center include its proximity rate for the construction of data centers, which allows them to share expenses," he added. of a brick-and-mortar data center that allows them to actually 'own' the patient records internally," Carron said. "That's where the existing data-center infrastructure of hospitals, some of them in basements to major railroads, highways, bodies of water, ﬂood plains, and other potential hazards," he explained. Raritan's Cerwinski concurs that there is no one-size-ﬁts-all solution. "Our customers have owner-operated data centers and cbpmagazine.com MAY 2015 COMMERCI A L BUIL DING P RODUC T S 13 http://www.cbpmagazine.com

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