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Iron Mountain Announces $225M Data Center Campus Expansion

January 7, 2020 - Storage and information management leader Iron Mountain announced the expansion of its data center campus in North Virginia, with the construction of VA-2 underway. Iron Mountain predicted that it will complete the development of the first part of VA-2 in the first quarter of 2020. It is expected to support the demand from both new and existing...


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VNA and PACS Market Growth Increases Data Storage and Security

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North America is leading the regional segment for the Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) and Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) market with a share of 28.51 percent in 2018, which increases...

Providers Move Toward Single Vendor for Radiology IT Solutions

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More healthcare organizations are using a single vendor for radiology IT solutions, with a majority of providers currently using or hoping to implement a single vendor approach, according to a...

Data ON, Intel Partnership to Support EHR Database Workloads

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DataON recently announced a collaboration with Intel that could significantly improve response time for EHR database software and other workloads. Through the partnership with Intel, DataON now offers...

Mercy Unveils Health Data Network to Pool Clinical Data for Analysis

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St. Louis-based Mercy health system, through its Mercy Technology Services arm, has launched a health data network to pool clinical data from across the United States. Mercy plans to partner with...

Researchers Modify Flash-based SSD to Thwart Ransomware Attacks

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Researchers from the University of Illinois have modified a flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) to fight ransomware attacks that plague healthcare organizations and other industries. When a file is...

Researchers Test Blockchain for Clinical Trails’ Data Integrity

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Researchers at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have developed a proof-of-concept method for using blockchain to safeguard data integrity of clinical trials. Blockchain creates an...

Health Data Archiving Provides Financial Gains to Organizations

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A full 85 percent of organizations who have retired legacy IT systems and opted for health data archiving report positive financial impacts, according to KLAS Research.   As a result, the...

MGH Works with Korean Startup on Healthcare Blockchain Project

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Massachusetts General Hospital’s Laboratory of Medical Imaging and Computation is working on a healthcare blockchain project with Korean startup MediBloc for patient data storage and exchange,...

Cardiac Clinical Workflow Frustration Grows with Structured Reporting

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The amount of data that cardiovascular clinicians deal with as part of their clinical workflow can be overwhelming. One way to get a handle on all that data is through structured reporting. Structured...

Healthcare Organizations Partner with Fujifilm for PACS, VNAs

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Fujifilm announced its latest partnerships with several large health systems to provide picture archive and communications system (PACS) and vendor neutral archive (VNA) medical imaging solutions. The...

Health System Consolidation, Mergers Impact PACS Vendor Selection

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Healthcare organizations are looking to standardize and consolidate their picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) as health systems continue to merge and grow, according to a recent KLAS...

FUJIFILM Partners with American College of Radiology for PACS

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FUJIFILM Medical Systems is extending its partnership with the American College of Radiology to provide the healthcare organization with picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to help...

How Edge Computing Enhances Health IT Infrastructure

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Healthcare organizations are adding more digital tools and trying to process growing amounts of data more quickly to meet enterprise demands. Many organizations have looked to the cloud for the best...

Data Migration Supports Future-Proof Health IT Infrastructure

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Migrating data from one health IT systems to another is a taxing but necessary part of health IT infrastructure. Whether organizations are moving on from legacy systems or changing how they store and...

Making Growing Healthcare Data Lakes Actionable for Providers

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Organizations are challenged by constantly increasing amounts of health data as more connected and digital devices contribute data. The rate at which the data is growing is also causing healthcare data...

Data Demands Call for Increased Healthcare Storage Flexibility

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The constant increase of data pushes healthcare organizations to reassess their data storage needs. While cloud computing is the fastest way to get more scalability for the consistently increasing...

Healthcare Data Centers Call For Cloud, Virtualization

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As IT infrastructure technology evolves, organizations are looking to use more advanced tools for their healthcare data centers. A recent Research and Markets report predicted that the data center...

Understanding Implications of Healthcare Blockchain

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As organizations continue to consider healthcare blockchain it’s important to understand what the technology can realistically do and what the technology might not be capable of...

Healthcare Object Storage Adds Scalability for Increasing Data

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Healthcare data storage continues to be a concern as the amount of data produced by patients, clinicians, and organizations grows exponentially. Sequence data is doubling every seven to nine months as...