Contact Information: Contact: Garvin McKee
St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center Selects Comport Consulting for Unified Medical Image Archiving and Information Management Solution
| Source: Comport Consulting Corp
RAMSEY, NJ--(Marketwire - December 10, 2009) - Comport Consulting announced
that it has partnered with St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, a 641-bed
academic tertiary facility in Paterson, NJ, to design and implement a
unified storage solution for its medical image
archiving applications. The new system replaces multiple proprietary
silo storage systems and is designed to optimize cost-effective storage,
management, and retrieval of the hospital's patient image studies.
Comport, an Elite HP
Platinum Business Partner, has been recognized for its in-depth
understanding of health care solutions, particularly the design and
implementation of Vendor Neutral Archive
(VNA), medical image archiving, and EMR archiving.
These solutions provide cost-effective ingestion and retrieval of digital
images and documents, while providing the redundancy and compliance
protections required by HIPAA.
In order to increase patient data availability in the event of an outage or
disaster as well as the reliability of retrieving patient images, St.
Joseph's sought a redundant system for its long-term medical image
archiving as part of their PACS application
replacement. The HP Medical Archiving System (HP MAS), along with an
HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage Area Network (EVA SAN), was selected
after a competitive evaluation, due to simplicity, speed of image
retrieval, and lower operational and add-on costs. "Our design and
implementation were provided by Comport, and I give them a lot of credit.
It all proceeded flawlessly -- within budget and under the time we
expected," stated Jim Cavanagh, St. Joseph's CIO. "We now access images in
seconds, not to mention that we saved about 60% in storage costs."
Jack Margossian, Comport's CEO, said, "We understand the business problems
that disparate systems and silos of equipment and data can produce. Our
medical image archiving solution for St. Joseph's provides a strategy for
the entire enterprise. The benefits are quickly extending from the initial
radiology implementation into their other departments. This has calmed
down the upward spiral in capital and operational costs, which we are very
proud to be part of."
View video of St. Joseph's medical image archiving solution, designed and
implemented by Comport.
http://www.comport.com/news/comport_newsletter_0409.html
About Comport Consulting
Comport Consulting specializes in successful outcomes for data storage and
information management initiatives including record and document
management; database and
email archiving, medical archiving and application retirement. With
offices in Ramsey, NJ and South Burlington, VT Comport serves enterprise
and healthcare providers in the Eastern United States. Comport ranks #22
in the Top 100 Fastest Growing IT technology value-added resellers in the
US.
For more information see www.comport.com or email Garvin.Mckee@comport.com.