Collaboration to Develop Medical Data Recovery, Backup Systems

UltraRad Corp. (Louisville, CO, USA), a leading provider of fully integrated, scalable picture and archiving communications system (PACS) and teleradiology systems, and Breece Hill (West Berlin, NJ, USA), a provider of innovative data protection systems, have announced that their companies have successfully completed development of an all-in-one backup, recovery, and archive system designed to meet the specific data management and protection needs of small and medium-sized medical organizations, as well as departments or remote sites of large health-care operations.

The integrated system is based on Breece Hill's unified disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) iStoRA backup and recovery appliance that utilizes industry standard components and UltraRad's UltraArchive software, which provides scalable levels of service on either a fee-per-Terabyte stored or a fee-per-procedure basis. UltraArchieve and iStoRA combine to provide a pre-configured system that is easy to own, manage, and operate, and is a major component of a data retention plan fully compliant with the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard for medical images.

Breece Hill's iStoRA architecture combines the speed of disk and the portability of tape to provide both local backup and archiving to removable media. Having both capabilities in one easy-to-use, network-ready appliance provides fast restores in the case of minor data loss, and off-site archive of data for regulatory compliance and disaster recovery purposes.

"All of us in the healthcare industry are required to provide DICOM compliant storage solutions that satisfy HIPAA requirements, from a small radiology practice to a huge healthcare institution,” said Tom Goliash, president of UltraRad. "Unfortunately the complexity and cost of the technology requirements are historically prohibitive for all but large, centralized operations, but we're proud to say this combination delivers the security requirements needed to meet DICOM archiving needs while meeting HIPAA guidelines in a cost-effective model. The only thing left for the customer to do is decide where, and how long, to store their backup tapes.”



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