Medical Image Archiving presents many daunting challenges. Typically, electronic archiving of medical images requires dozens of terabytes (TBs) of digital storage and rapid access to all the images. As the amount of medical information continues to grow exponentially, retrieving information quickly and reliably becomes a challenge, especially during a medical emergency, where speed and accuracy are critical. Also, increased regulatory requirements, such as HIPAA, are mandating the retention of medical images as well as specifying rules regarding the security and privacy of this information. Maintaining archive capacities sufficient for increasing medical storage needs that comply with all the regulations becomes a budget challenge as well as a burden for practitioners.

Healthcare DPS provides a simple solution that overcomes the storage and regulation challenges faced by the medical community. Using Healthcare DPS to store, protect and manage your growing volumes of medical images provides several advantages. Our Medical Image Archiving solution efficiently consolidates medical images, improves storage, and quickly restores necessary medical information while reducing compliance risk.

To reduce costs, medical data is assigned to the most cost-effective storage tier based on specified criteria, such as recovery time requirements. To improve recovery, all data is self-contained which enables the system to quickly respond to a restore request. Additionally, our archiving solution supports HIPAA and regulatory requirements for disaster recovery planning and the storage, transmission, and protection of patient data. For example, our archiving solution produces a “destruction certificate” confirming that backed-up data was destroyed as required under the HIPAA security rule.

Using a centralized medical image archiving solution allows a provider to achieve long-term accessibility and security for all their medical data, reduce recovery time during disaster situations, and reduce long-term costs.

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Often court discovery timelines are short and healthcare professionals must provide necessary information to a legal team quickly. Professionals must effectively manage litigation and regulatory scrutiny by providing lawyers with what electronically stored information (ESI) exists, where it is stored, and its level of accessibility. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Amendment details the duty to preserve and produce electronically stored information (ESI) for litigation or pending litigation. E-discovery describes the retrieval of ESI in response to legal proceeding.

Responding to a legal discovery request requires a message archive system that is indexed, available, and searchable. An efficient email archiving and e-discovery solution serves as an insurance policy against the consequences of the inability to locate a message in response to a legal request.

Healthcare DPS offers a fast and accurate e-discovery response. The hosted email archiving solution enables healthcare providers to overcome the challenges of ensuring the security, privacy, and availability of protected health information through an affordable and simplified solution. Rather than dealing with the burden of email compliance and storage management, healthcare providers can focus on the quality of patient care. For details regarding E-Discovery, please visit: www.healthcaredps.com/email-compliance.html

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