Carestream Health and Hitachi Data Systems to Co-Market IT System that Efficiently Manages Clinical Data

Carestream Health, Inc. Rochester, NY, USA) and Hitachi Data Systems (Santa Clara, CA, USA) have entered into an agreement to co-market a data management system that will enable healthcare organizations to efficiently archive clinically relevant information from multiple systems in their facilities.

The system combines Carestream Health's Versatile Intelligent Patient Archive (VIParchive) and the newly enhanced Hitachi Content Archive Platform in a single footprint that is easy to install, administer, and support. Carestream Health's VIParchive is a software platform that can take clinical data from multiple healthcare sources and consolidate this information in an intelligent archive. VIParchive is a proven, scalable software system that can benefit small hospitals and imaging centers, as well as large medical centers and large regional healthcare systems.

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform is an active archive system that allows organizations to satisfy regulatory and corporate governance mandates and provides rapid access to archived data when needed. The system provides automated policy management to ensure content authenticity, retention, and integrity while also supporting advanced discovery capabilities through integrated indexing, search, and retrieval features.

The amount of new healthcare-related information being created, distributed, and stored digitally, which must also be readily accessible, continues to grow dramatically worldwide. Carestream Health's healthcare information technology (IT) systems were designed for helping organizations deal with the burgeoning growth of patient information, and VIParchive can easily be integrated with existing storage area network or network-attached storage systems. The Hitachi Content Archive Platform is a powerful active archive system designed to meet this growth and address the corporate need to preserve, protect, and access patient information well into the future.

Carestream Health is a leading provider of medical and dental imaging systems, and healthcare IT systems; molecular imaging systems for the life science research and drug discovery/development market segments; and x-ray film and digital x-ray products for the non-destructive testing market.

Hitachi Data Systems provides storage infrastructure platforms, storage management software, and storage consulting services through direct and indirect channels in over 170 countries and regions.


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