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eHealth Managed Services: data in safe hands
Healthcare
facilities are facing a triple challenge.
The volume of
digital information
is
growing exponentially, especially
in
imaging as
PACS
markets mature. That
information must be accessible
to
an
ever-growing
number of healthcare
stakeholders. And it must be
kept
accessible over long
periods in response to
legal
requirements.
According
to the
Gartner Group, the total cost of
ownership for
storage breaks down as
12%
investment; 74% management; 6%
environmental;
8%
other. In the
healthcare IT
market, such figures are
fuelling a
growing
trend towards
transferring
responsibility for storage
and
distribution
management to a
third party via a
managed services
model.
Indeed,
Patrick
Koch, worldwide business director
for eHealth
Managed Services at
Carestream
Health, argues that the move
towards
managed
and cloud-based
services is
inevitable as the present
period of
investment
in national,
regional and
local
infrastructure
comes to an
end.
Carestream
Health's expertise in eHealth Managed
Services comes
from
operating eight
data
centres in five countries that
are connected to
150
sites throughout
Europe
and North America. One of
these data centres
is
at
Leeuwarden in The
Netherlands, where the eMS
experience of two
healthcare
organisations
demonstrates its value.
For
more
information about Carestream Health
eHealth Managed
Services, visit
www.carestreamhealth.com or contact: Patrick Koch,
patrick.koch@carestreamhealth.com.
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