HP Medical Archive solution

Medical archiving presents some pretty tough challenges. Today, medical images - typically averaging 40MB in size and getting bigger - are stored on expensive online storage. With patient scans increasing at a dizzying pace, these images are becoming harder to search, and more costly to retain. Radiologists need to have quick access, particularly in trauma situations, where speed and availability are critical. And they also need the ability to collaborate on images with other specialists in different locations and departments to determine the correct diagnosis.

HP Medical Archiving solution (MAS) surmounts these challenges by providing economical, petabyte-level retention of medical images and other medical fixed-content. HP Medical Archiving solution combines industry standard servers, storage, and Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) image management, indexing, and policy management software into a single, grid-based system fully delivered, serviced, and supported by HP.  The unmatched scalability, performance, and security of HP MAS enables institutions, large and small, to improve patient care while providing compliance with ethical and regulatory requirements for patient privacy. With HP MAS, you can:

• Reduce the cost and management of medical fixed content by consolidating data from multiple PACS applications, facilities, and sites off of expensive primary storage and into MAS, where it is centrally indexed and stored;
• Facilitate compliance with data retention, security, and portability requirements for long-term medical image preservation;
• Empower doctors and physicians to collaborate remotely – with all viewing the same images and information at the same time across LAN or WAN infrastructures.

HP MAS presents itself as a network-mounted file system to the PACS applications or modalities at the front-end so that image access is completely transparent to doctors and other users.  By leveraging HP ProLiant servers and HP StorageWorks MSA storage, HP MAS delivers industry-leading availability, rack density, and upgrade potential.  The built-in parallel processing and failover capabilities of its unique grid architecture deliver unrivaled image indexing, store, search, and retrieval performance, and unmatched levels of image availability. 

New capabilities now available in HP MAS 3.0 help you:

Improve Patient Care and Regulatory Compliance:

• High Availability Gateway provides “always-on” grid access to medical images, documents and lab reports to ensure medical facilities offer the highest levels of patient care while maintaining compliance, even in the event of multiple site failures;
• Prioritized cache management and selective WORM features enable you to select which images require faster access based on clinical value and other policies;
• Image Management Layer (IML) support, certifications with more than thirty PACS vendors, and enhanced CIFS, NFS, and DICOM support make it easier for physicians within a hospital or across a group of hospitals to access patient information and share diagnostic data when collaborating on a patient’s treatment;
• Encryption, now a standard security feature, helps protect patient privacy as medical images are transferred across local or remote networks.

Increase Storage Flexibility and Reduce Costs

• Ability to create and manage multiple tiers of storage - SAN, SCSI, SATA and tape - within the MAS grid helps you better align storage costs and retention policies with the business value of images;
• New HP MAS “Compact” product line offers entry-level price point for organizations that don't require multiple storage tiers.

Improve Operational Efficiency

• The Compact line is built on HP Proliant DL320s servers for easier management and greater rack density;
• Both product lines now use a standard Linux operating environment which will enable use of existing performance monitoring tools.