Now is the Time for Hospitals to Invest in Modern, Epic IT Infrastructure

Gary Lyng
Vice President Product and Solutions Marketing

August 22, 2024

When it comes to healthcare, every second matters and electronic health records (EHRs) are now crucial to the way that hospitals operate, nurses and doctors provide care, and the patient experience. So medical professionals need fast access to EHRs to understand and treat patients.

Healthcare practitioners today get patient data from EHR software provided by companies like Epic. But without high-performance, low-latency storage and integrated systems to power such software, medical professionals may struggle to get the patient data they need when and where they need it.

That can be a real problem, as you can probably understand if you’ve ever had to visit the emergency room, had a baby or connected with a specialist to get the healthcare you need.

And speed and efficiency are more important than ever before, as the world’s aging population is driving a significant increase in demand for healthcare services, with the U.S. among the focal points.

Supporting a Positive User and Patient Experience

IT and data leaders in hospital/healthcare environments should be aware Hitachi Vantara offers an effective treatment to ensure high availability and performance to support a positive user and patient experience. As well as reduced latency and IT costs, sustainability and the ability to serve multiple locations.

Modern storage and integrated infrastructure are critical to empowering healthcare providers to turbocharge the performance of their Epic EHR systems and enabling them to transform patient care.

This is noteworthy considering more than 305M patients have a current electronic record in Epic and the company has over a third (35.9%) of U.S. EHR market share.

The Right Prescription for Your Storage Needs

For healthcare providers installing or looking to refresh their existing EHR environment – or Hitachi Vantara partners providing infrastructure solutions to organizations in the rapidly-growing healthcare sector – Hitachi Vantara’s converged and data storage solutions may be the right prescription for your needs.

Here’s why:

High availability: Our Virtual Storage Platform One comes with a 100% availability guarantee. This provides doctors, nurses and administrators the ability to act fast and protect their organizations and patients against the risks associated with operational disruption.
Improved performance: Virtual Storage Platform One is on record as the most powerful, scalable storage system available. And we continue to take performance to the next level. Hitachi Vantara’s VSP 5600 model was benchmarked with 240% more input-output operations per second than the previous generation.
Lower IT costs: Our integrated infrastructure – which includes compute, storage and networking – addresses the whole stack. Meaning there’s less infrastructure to buy, install and maintain, with reduced cost and complexity and increased simplicity.
Sustainability: Hitachi Vantara is the only storage infrastructure vendor today with Carbon Footprint for Products certification. And new Hitachi Vantara solutions feature modern designs and smaller footprints to reduce CO2 emissions and increase energy efficiency, helping organizations meet their sustainability goals and contributing to a greener, healthier planet.

Now healthcare providers can be cost- and energy-efficient while ensuring doctors and nurses across their multi-site organizations can get the patient data they need at the click of a button.

Time is of the essence in healthcare. Analyze your IT infrastructure and invest in technology to ensure that your staff can move fast to provide optimal patient experiences.

Find out more about why organizations in healthcare and a broad range of industries put their trust in Hitachi Vantara’s storage and integrated infrastructure solutions.