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Symantec Health
Launched March
1, 2010
Symantec Health is a new hosted medical image archiving and sharing
solution for healthcare providers, that helps lower storage costs and
provides secure, Web-based image sharing for non-affiliated hospitals
and physicians. The new Symantec Health Safe solution consists of two
components: Symantec Health Safe and Symantec Health Image Share.
With medical images increasing in volume and density and longer
retention periods occurring, storage costs are growing exponentially.
Many IT organizations struggle to accurately budget and fund on-site
storage. Symantec Health Safe addresses the high cost of storage by
providing affordable capacity on-demand and business continuity.
“Health IT executives continually
cite the soaring costs associated with medical image storage as one of
the biggest challenges they face,” said Lori Wright, vice president and
general manager of the Electronic Health Group at Symantec. “Symantec’s
security and storage management expertise and its leading Software as a
Service portfolio are key reasons why many healthcare industry leaders
trust Symantec to deliver these new hosted offerings in a cost-effective
and secure way.”
sq.gif) According
to Rick Schooler, vice president and chief information officer of
Orlando Health, a 1,800 bed hospital system in Orlando, FL, “Symantec
has been able to create an affordable alternative to onsite storage to
help reduce image archiving costs and capital expenses while enhancing
business continuity. A key advantage of Symantec Health is its
surprisingly quick deployment and integration with the existing Picture
Archiving and Communication System (PACS).”
In addition, Symantec Health Image Share enables healthcare providers to
confidently share images and reports with non-affiliated hospitals and
physicians over the Internet, reducing the inconvenience and costs
associated with CDs and DVDs used in many organizations today.
“Symantec offers secure image sharing that is like a social network for
healthcare—one clinician can invite another clinician to view images
without having to implement complex interfaces,” said Dr. John Halamka,
chief information officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in
Boston, MA.
Key features and benefits of Symantec Health solutions include:
Symantec Health Safe:
- Affordable and reliable storage to
accommodate the growing number and size of medical images
- Capacity on demand and business
analytics to provide budget predictability and control
- Business continuity to ensure that
medical images are secure and available in the event of a
business disruption, a disaster or a security breach
Symantec Health
Image Share:
- Ability for non-affiliated clinicians
to search, view and download images with a physician-friendly
Web interface
- Secure provider-to-provider image
sharing to streamline clinical operations, reduce re-imaging,
and enable hospital outreach for expanding the referral network
Symantec Health Safe
is currently available, and Symantec Health Image Share is expected to
be available in the coming weeks. |
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