Dell Unified Clinical Archiving (PACS)

A patient routinely generates a terabyte of information from dozens of specialties, modalities and systems. To ensure patient safety and quality of care, this information needs to be stored, protected, correlated, shared and made easy for caregivers to access for years. Yet storing this amount of information is taxing and can exceed traditional file system capabilities. Simply growing primary storage to meet increasing capacity requirements is expensive, unsustainable, and it only treats part of the problem. Unified Clinical Archiving (PACS) today is complex – typically involving several hardware vendors, hundreds of applications, and numerous stand-alone IT environments within one hospital. Add to this complexity the time and expense of retrieving data using the current approach, and there’s no question that there’s a need for an efficient, easily-accessible and cost-effective medical archive solution.

Our solution is centered on a single platform – the Dell DX Object Storage Platform, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors which combine industry-leading energy-efficiency with intelligent performance that adapts to demanding hospital workloads. The DX platform is specifically designed to help you efficiently store, access and share medical files and images while providing ease of management and ultimate scalability.

Simplified and Accelerated Access to Critical Patient Data
The Dell Unified Clinical Archiving solution is built upon object-based and metadata aware disk storage, enabling you to quickly identify and retrieve patient information and automatically manage billions of clinical objects from creation through deletion (PACS). This solution makes access, discovery, replication, distribution and retention much more practical than traditional approaches, which rely upon file trees and disk locations.
Massive Scale without Complexity
The intelligent, peer-scaling architecture of the Dell Unified Clinical Archiving solution gives you the ability to easily scale at your own pace, non-disruptively. Standards-based hardware in combination with modular design enables you to purchase storage on demand and easily add, replace or retire nodes across multiple hardware generations without the manual setup, management complexity and costs of traditional file and block storage.
Improved Data Integrity and Government Compliance
Dell Unified Clinical Archiving helps you meet your data management and governance needs with policy-based retention and selectable content control permitting only authorized users to reference, alter and delete data. Data integrity is assured by self-healing functions which continuously check stored objects to detect and repair errors and automatically reconfigure and regenerate objects without the need for IT intervention.
Services to Help Find the Right Solution
Dell’s storage consulting services help you identify and prioritize your challenges, including the needs of your clinicians, IT staff, and administrators. We work collaboratively with you to meet your goals without adding unnecessary cost or complexity and explore the options that will yield measurable results.

Learn more about the components of the Dell Unified Clinical Archiving solution:

Dell DX Object Storage Platform

Dell Consulting Services for Archiving

Certified Partners

Featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor

Resources

Medical Archiving Brochure

Comprehensive Medical Archive Solution in cooperation with BridgeHead

Contact the Dell UK Healthcare Team

Videos: Demos and Overviews of the Dell DX Object Storage Platform

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