MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure
Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage
as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, today announced that Halifax
Health, a community-based hospital system in Florida, chose Pure to optimize clinical
workflows and to deliver high availability of mission-critical
applications − including its MEDITECH electronic health record
(EHR) system. This will enable its staff to ensure care continuity
and better optimize patient outcomes.
Setting the Stage for Greater Business Continuity
A trailblazer, Halifax Health, which provides a continuum of
healthcare services through a network of organizations with
facilities including a tertiary hospital, two community hospitals,
a cancer treatment center with five outreach locations, the area's
largest hospice and a center for inpatient rehabilitation, was the
first healthcare organization to cluster MEDITECH using Windows
failover clustering. Halifax Health became the driving force behind
MEDITECH's current high availability solution, which is now
installed in over half of MEDITECH organizations. Clustering not
only ensured greater availability of the MEDITECH EHR system and
other apps, but also improved Halifax Health's disaster recovery
and rapid restore capabilities in the face of natural disasters and
prepared the IT team to launch new apps quickly amid COVID-19.
The Need for Improved Resiliency and Reduced
Complexity
Even with these measures in place, Halifax Health faced a trio
of challenges – availability, performance and security of
mission-critical systems, while doing so cost-effectively. In
addition, due to its location in Florida, Halifax Health must be able to stay
up and running during tropical storms and hurricanes. Medical staff
need immediate access to clinical apps and health information
whenever they need it, and rely on IT to do so.
To meet these challenges, Halifax Health wanted to create
multiple instances of its MEDITECH environment. However, this
required an additional, significant investment in the existing
approach, with additional legacy storage, networking and compute –
all of which required more licensing to make everything work.
Halifax Health took the opportunity to revisit its entire
infrastructure and selected Pure Storage FlashArray™ as the
foundation for its MEDITECH instances, allowing it to cluster
storage with three arrays with the resources for one --
cost-effectively and seamlessly.
"We were the first hospital to cluster our MEDITECH environment,
so we were blazing new trails. Our investment in Pure allows us to
retain full control of our infrastructure, without running up
operating expenses," said Mike
Marques, Halifax Health's Vice President and Chief
Information Officer of IT. "We've had nothing but 100 percent
uptime ever since. Pure is going to play an important role in our
MEDITECH architecture as we move forward. And the best part about
that is that we can do it without a lot of additional
infrastructure and complexity."
Visible Impact and COVID-19 Connection
Today, more than 200 applications, including all of Halifax
Health's tier 1 applications, such as PACS, TeleTracking and
several EMRs, run on Pure. Halifax Health has reduced its recovery
objectives and recovery time objectives significantly by moving to
Pure. While its infrastructure has grown, Halifax Health's IT team
can manage the same infrastructure with the same, if not fewer
resources.
Halifax Health also has cut the time spent managing storage by
75 percent, which proved especially valuable early in the pandemic
when the hospital system needed to develop in-house telemedicine
and virtual waiting room applications rapidly. The IT team was able
to redeploy staff to implement the telehealth platform in three
days – a high-impact transformation in a very short time.
"Halifax Health is an amazing example of how healthcare
organizations can transform the role of IT, enabling resiliency and
agility and supporting the innovation necessary to care for their
patients. By retiring legacy infrastructure and making a strategic
investment in a modern data platform from Pure, the team was able
to remove years of technical debt that made Halifax Health's
environment complex and, more importantly, they were able to give
clinicians and patients an optimized clinical experience," said
Josh Gluck, Vice President of Global
Healthcare Technology Strategy, Pure Storage. "Storage reliability,
resilience, cost-control, security, performance and operational
simplicity aren't just non-negotiables; they're game-changers for
providers, especially those under pressure to innovate and adapt to
new challenges as they improve patient outcomes."
With high-performing, resilient and easy-to-manage storage,
Halifax Health can accelerate its core applications with fewer
resources, delivering the best patient care today and well into the
future. Pure's simplicity enables Halifax Health IT team members to
focus on optimizing and enhancing IT, instead of spending time
managing storage. For example, the virtual disk expansion process
is 10x faster, which is easier on staff and reduces the opportunity
for mistakes. The organization can cross-train engineers and
increase staffing efficiencies, while minimizing any
technology-related frustrations. Pure allows IT resources to be
redeployed in the organization to ensure patients and clinicians
are receiving the highest level of care possible.
To learn more about how Halifax Health helps staff optimize
patient outcomes through technology, read the case study.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back.
Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organizations
to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service
model seamlessly across multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing
enterprise IT companies in history, Pure helps customers put data
to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the
infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer
satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's
ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the
world.
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respective owners.
Analyst Recognition:
Pure Storage has been named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Primary Storage.
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