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Kathy Mahdoubi, Senior Correspondent | December 07, 2009
Off-site data management also changes the game of data recovery in case of a disaster.
"People often have this idea that everything needs to be backed up. 'Oh my god, if it's not backed up...' but now technology has gotten to a point where back-up is no longer sufficient because the data is so vast that to recover the system would take them out of service for too long," says Goldburgh. "So disaster recovery has given way to business continuance."
Depending upon the level of service contracted, customers can have three copies of the data mirrored across the health care facility and InSite One's data centers in Phoenix, Ariz., and Wallingford, Conn. No matter what happens at the health care facility, that data is always available.
Most cloud computing services use common informatics standards like DICOM, HL7 and XDS and keep data in an "intelligent" digital format that can be registered, shared and analyzed, which is the direction the world of health care is going now that health information exchanges (HIE) and regional health information organizations (RHIO) are cropping up across the country with the help of federal government ARRA stimulus money.
InSite One just closed a deal to provide a universal image repository for the company's first integrated delivery network (IDN): Medstar Health, a network of nine hospitals in the Northeast; they also signed a contract to provide a standard image repository for U.S. military services.
The company has also partnered with Merge on the InDex Web and Cedara WebAccess technologies, which let physicians gain access to patient information via hand-held technology such as tablets, iPhones and Blackberry Bold phones.
Check back for more on premiering technologies from the 2009 RSNA Annual Meeting.
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