ClearDATA Provides Cloud-Based Archiving of Medical Images

ClearDATA Networks, Inc., an healthcare cloud computing platform and
service provider, will offer healthcare providers a
HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based solution for vendor neutral archiving (VNA)
medical images.

The services will enable healthcare organizations to securely merge and integrate diverse departmental PACS system images
into a vendor neutral, industry-standard DICOM file format for improved
handling, storing, printing, and transmission.

Storing Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) medical images in
the ClearDATA cloud will reduce capital expenses and enable data and patient
information to be accessed by providers from diverse locations.

ClearDATA will provide cloud backup/recovery, offsite storage and DR
services for medical images utilizing the HP X5000 Storage portfolio, which
optimizes capacity as well as performance of next-generation data centers. By
eliminating separate server nodes as well as other network infrastructure, HP
X5000 Storage reduces power consumption by up to 58%, cooling requirements by
63% and physical footprint by 50%.

In addition to image backup services, ClearDATA will also provide
database backup services using HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup.With new HP StoreOnce Catalyst software, it provides backup
performance of up to 100TB per hour and DR of up to 40TB per hour in a single
system.

"Cloud storage is rapidly
changing the way the Healthcare industry views, distributes, backs up, and
hosts DICOM images and PAC images," said David Jemmett, CTO and
founder of ClearDATA Networks. "Currently,
storing medical images is cumbersome, storage intensive, and requires a
significant amount of equipment on the floor. The ClearDATA Cloud VNA solution
will significantly reduce hardware expenses, support, and maintenance costs for
healthcare organizations and HIEs by moving those services to the cloud in our next
generation data center."

Healthcare organizations and hospitals are faced with
ever-increasing storage requirements for PACS, and for storing medical images
of all types. There is also a growing need to securely share medical images
between providers in diverse locations in a manner that protects patient
privacy and meets HIPAA requirements. These two factors combined are making
medical image storage one of the largest and fastest growing IT budget expenses
for hospitals and providers.

"To maintain an advantage
in the competitive healthcare cloud services market, ClearDATA required a
datacenter that lowered its total cost of ownership while protecting and
ensuring persistent availability of data that medical providers need to save
lives," said David DeAngelis, CTO, Health and Life Sciences, HP.
"In addition to significantly
lowering ClearDATA’s energy and datacenter footprint costs, HP Converged
Storage enables the company’s clients to safely store and access critical
patient information in less time, so healthcare providers can concentrate more
on patient care and less on IT administration."

ClearDATA is a partner in the HP CloudAgile Service Provider
Program, and delivers customers specialized healthcare-as-a-service and private
cloud IT infrastructure services powered by HP 3PAR Storage, based on HP
Converged Infrastructure.

ClearDATA’s datacenter provides secure, compliant cloud hosting of applications
and data, offsite backup and storage, DR and BC to 5,000 hospitals and hundreds
of thousands of clinics/medical offices in the U.S.

ClearDATA secured funding from Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) to
expand its operations in order to meet the significant market demand for its
HIPAA-compliant cloud hosting and information security services. The company
has revenue growth through its existing customer base which ranges from
single provider practices to small and large hospitals throughout the U.S. Over
the past three years, ClearDATA has entered into several strategic partnerships
and provides cloud hosting and information security services to over 10,000
healthcare practitioners.