Hewlett-Packard Company announced that KishHealth System has selected HP Converged Storage to improve patient care by accelerating medical record delivery. KishHealth System provides outpatient services in 13 facilities across Northern Illinois. To speed medical record delivery and eliminate hand-written errors, KishHealth wanted to transition from hard copy to digital records.

This required a scalable platform that could support the capacity demands for storing medical images on its Agfa Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). KishHealth also sought to increase data center performance to improve response time of its MEDITECH electronic medical records (EMR) system. Upgrading its infrastructure with HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, HP StoreOnce Backup and HP StoreAll Storage has enabled KishHealth to increase performance, capacity utilization and availability for medical records and imaging applications while simplifying IT administration.

HP Converged Storage, a key component of HP Converged Infrastructure, integrates scale-out federated software with standardized hardware platforms that leverage proven HP technology, enabling KishHealth to: Accelerate patient medical record routing to more than 250 physicians and 1,300 employees via HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, which improved KishHealth's MEDITECH EMR system response time 60%. Increase workflow productivity with HP StoreOnce Backup deduplication combined with HP partner BridgeHead's Integrated Serverless Backup, which improved system performance and application availability by reducing EMR data backup time from six hours to just minutes. Lower data center total cost of ownership with HP StoreOnce Backup and HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software.

HP StoreOnce Backup reduced KishHealth's PACS data storage consumption by 92% with deduplication capabilities that consolidate data and increase disk storage efficiency on the backup system. Improve data center efficiency using the HP 3PAR Management Console, which enables KishHealth to administer and optimize storage systems via a single window, including remote replication to disaster recovery sites, nondisruptive online system upgrades and system performance monitoring. Increase medical staff productivity though centralized management of HP StoreAll Storage, which speeds image retrieval times by increasing storage capacity and flexibility while reducing costs for KishHealth's Agfa PACS medical imaging data.