Dayton Children’s Hospital Selects Qumulo

Dayton’s Children Hospital (DCH) chose the Qumulo File Data Platform to support multiple mission-critical applications for patient care, research, security, and communications.

A tpediatric acute care and research hospital, DCH provides acute care with the only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center in the region. Research and patient care deliver diagnoses and treatments across a range of pediatric orthopedics, oncology, neurology, pulmonary, and more.

Fast access to imaging data and healthcare information is critical to providing high quality care. To help manage its medical imaging files and patient volume growth, DCH needed a data management solution to support its mission-critical picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) and imaging application data.

“We are improving patient outcomes by using Qumulo to provide physicians with fast image retrieval, even in our most urgent and challenging cases,” said Mike Brady, infrastructure network supervisor, Dayton Children’s Hospital.

Medical devices generate massive digital files. DCH handles the large workflow spikes using the Qumulo platform to ramp up performance for different applications when needed, then redistributing performance for other users once the spikes even out.

“Qumulo nearly runs itself. It allows my team to do their jobs better and gives me the confidence that we’ll be able to support many new projects and changes that are coming our way,” added Brady.

Accelerated Access to Mission-Critical Healthcare Data and Images
To keep all patient data secure and accessible, DCH chose the Qumulo platform to integrate with Change Healthcare PACS, which manages high-resolution medical images. The solution secures PACS data by replicating secondary copies to a secondary environment and moving aging images to cloud-based cold storage for archive and compliance.

The DCH IT team is responsible for the entire data lifecycle from creation and processing to retention. The Qumulo file data platform makes their jobs easier by consolidating dispersed file data from local, remote and cloud locations into a centralized data repository. IT can then carve the files into useful datasets for researchers and physicians.

With AI and ML innovations accelerating imaging applications and supporting higher resolution imagery, DCH is well-positioned to grow its cloud presence with Qumulo. The hospital also will use Qumulo for its planned vendor-neutral archive (VNA) file data platform solution when implemented in the future.

“Seeing Qumulo help one of the top-rated research hospitals make a difference in saving the lives of children is inspiring. Using Qumulo to manage and understand the impact of data couldn’t be more compelling,” said Bill Richter, president and CEO, Qumulo. “Enabling hospitals like Dayton Children’s to save more lives underscores the importance of radical simplicity and the ability to easily manage massive amounts of data. That is what healthcare is all about.“

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