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EMC Picture Archiving

Communications Systems
(PACS) Solution for
Healthcare

Information infrastructure for medical imaging

Business Challenges
Healthcare organizations around the world are investing in radiology and cardiology Picture Archiving
Communications Systems (PACS) to predict, diagnose, treat, and monitor disease. With each new
imaging deployment, healthcare providers face challenges in meeting increasing demands for high
availability of systems and networks, security, and automated tools to simplify the complexity of
managing this expanding imaging environment.

While advanced medical imaging technologies such as multi-slice CTs and wider functional fMRI
applications contribute to improved patient health through early diagnosis of disease, imaging
technologies are also being deployed in other areas of medicine, like oncology, pathology, obstetrics,
mammography, and orthopedics. The deployment of medical imaging applications and modalities to
improve clinical workflow and outcomes is resulting in rapid increases in the image size of individual
procedures and the overall volume of procedures being performed with the storage required.

For healthcare providers looking to upgrade or replace their initial PACS investments, the ability to
migrate medical images is critical. But migrating data from a legacy application to a more recent
version of that same software, or from one PACS application to a different PACS, or simply moving
images from one storage platform to another can often be a slow, difficult, and costly process with
older image files not adhering to current formats and standards.

Solution Description
EMC Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS) Solution for Healthcare represents the
integration of industry-leading PACS applications from our strategic healthcare partners with an EMC
information infrastructure, leveraging best-in-class hardware, software, and services. This solution
enables healthcare providers of all sizes to dramatically accelerate their PACS deploymentssaving
time and cost from day one.

Long-standing EMC partnerships with leading PACS application vendors generate joint engineering
development to integrate, test, and certify partner applications with EMC storage platforms and
management software. Application programming interface (API) integration is also completed
to automate archiving processes between these applications and EMC purpose-built archiving
platforms. Customer support plans with formal problem escalation policies are established and
partner delivery resources receive technical training and certification on EMC products.
Solution Components
The EMC Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS) Solution for Healthcare addresses growing
information infrastructure demands from small ambulatory clinics, imaging centers, community
hospitals, multi-site academic teaching institutions, to national health systems. Radiologists and
cardiologists need immediate access to images and reports, anytime, anywhere to make informed
patient-care decisions. Whether youre implementing PACS for the first time or image-enabling your
Radiology Information System (RIS) or your Electronic Health Record (EHR), an EMC information infra-
structure will help you to:

Store medical images more efficiently and cost-effectively

Keep Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) available
and secure

Support DICOM and HL7 standards for medical imaging

Reduce the time and cost required to migrate medical images

Store clinical and business information more efficiently

To build an efficient information infrastructure for PACS that lets your healthcare organization
store, protect, optimize, and leverage your images and patient information, start with EMC storage
platforms:

EMC CLARiiON CX series of midrange networked storage helps you manage and consolidate your
healthcare data.

EMC Symmetrix DMX series offers a flexible, high-end networked storage system that enables
massive consolidation and scalability.

EMC Celerra unified storage delivers IP, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel connectivity with high availability
with compliance built in.

EMC Centera for active archiving to provide online access with assured authenticity and is tightly
integrated with EMC PACS partner applications.
Keep protected health information available and safe
Protection and security of patient images and related information are top priorities for healthcare
organizations. Business continuity and disaster recovery contingency plans, privacy, security, and
retention of patient information must be considered in the context of state, federal, and country
requirements such as HIPAA, Joint Commission, and EU Data Directives. Protected Health Information
(PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) are required to be protected and secured
throughout their entire lifecycles, whether kept inside or outside of the healthcare organization.

Implementing EMCs portfolio of affordable information protection, business continuity, and disaster
recovery solutions, ensures that your medical images are always available and aligned with the most
stringent regulatory requirements. The EMC Business Continuity Services Assessment for Healthcare
Environments helps your organization identify threats that impact critical healthcare and IT
operations by analyzing your current business continuity strategies, capabilities, processes, staffing,
and testing programs and then comparing these to your ability to meet established business and
regulatory requirements.

The EMC Backup, Recovery, and Archiving portfolio offers a comprehensive, integrated set of solutions
including EMC Disk Library, Centera, and NetWorker to help with refresh to re-design of your
backup and recovery infrastructure. These solutions, with built-in hardware redundancy, RAID
protection, and the availability features of disk technology, ensure that data can be quickly and
accurately restored.

To meet security and privacy requirements, EMC Information Risk Management Solutions for
Protected Health Information offer an information-centric approach to security that empowers
healthcare organizations to meet the needs of patients, physicians, contractors and other healthcare
staff by mitigating risks to information that directly contribute to the quality of patient care.

The security offering builds on EMC RSA products and services including: RSA Data Loss Protection
Suite that prevents unauthorized outflow of highly sensitive data from your network and end points,
RSA enVision platform for reporting and auditing, RSA Encryption Suite to encrypt sensitive data
and manage the lifecycle of encryption keys across the enterprise, and RSA Information Rights
Management Suite to enable secure document sharing across an extended enterprise.

EMC Open Systems Archive

Based on a services-oriented architecture (SOA) and deployed in a modular fashion, the EMC Open
Systems Archive Solution for Healthcare Organizations aggregates content from clinical, operational,
and financial applications. Leveraging IT and healthcare industry standards, the solution provides
an open, flexible, and highly scalable information repository. And it represents a complementary
architecture to your traditional PACSallowing images, documents, patient records, prescriptions,
invoices, and other unstructured content to be easily accessed via a secure, virtual, and federated
repository.

This solution leverages medical image management software to facilitate a DICOM-compliant

infrastructure that supports standards-based migration of medical images and infrastructure. It
captures extensive metadata from all content assets and collects this information into a virtual
or physical repository. The EMC Open Systems Clinical Policy Engine is purpose-built to integrate
your organizations specific rules, clinical protocols, and business process requirements. This tool
captures clinical codes from orders, DICOM headers from diagnostic imaging procedures, impressions
from diagnostic reports, relevant prior images, and other elements and then applies intelligence to
the data to create knowledge and situational awareness.
 Solution Value
The EMC Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS) Solution for Healthcare provides:

Reliable and highly available storage platforms that provide rapid access to images required by
radiologists and cardiologistsanywhere, any time.

Efficiencies and cost reductions through higher asset utilization and virtualization via automation of
processes and workflows.

Multi-site image review anywhere in the clinical service and securely throughout the enterprise.

Business continuity and security for your PHI and PII with management of authorized access to it.

Integrated and tested solutions with EMC PACS partners that save time and costand lower TCO
over the solution lifetime.

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