Meditech Certified NetApp FAS With BridgeHead Software

NetApp,
Inc. announced that Medical Information
Technology, Inc. (Meditech), provider of electronic health records
(EHRs), has certified its FAS storage for its EHR systems.

This news is particularly valuable for the many customers who use NetApp
solutions enterprise-wide and who will now have the ability to consolidate
architectures and previously-siloed storage to gain efficiencies and
simplicity.

"Healthcare
providers today are looking for increased agility in terms of how they store,
process, and manage the explosion of electronic patient data. They need the
ability to access this data anytime and anywhere, and it must be well
protected," said Dave Nesvisky, senior director of NetApp healthcare.
"With the new Meditech certification
on NetApp, we can now offer our customers new solutions to enhance
mission-critical EHRs."

As healthcare organizations become
increasingly dependent on their EHRs to aid in the delivery of quality care,
the availability of these systems is critical. To safeguard against system
outages, customers require protection for backup and DR. NetApp has chosen to
partner with BridgeHead Software Ltd, Meditech’s data management partner,
to enable integrated data protection that provides application-consistent
recovery points for Meditech data.

"For
more than a decade, BridgeHead Software has been providing solutions to protect
Meditech data," said Nesvisky. "We are pleased to partner with them to offer an integrated solution
that provides the best aspects of BridgeHead’s data management abilities with
NetApp’s storage efficiencies."

"Cost
is also a significant factor with the always-changing treatment environment
healthcare organizations face. With the unified system architecture this new Meditech
certification offers, our customers will see a bigger ROI and greater staff
productivity as they streamline IT management," said Nesvisky. "The ability to optimize cost performance
depending on the workload also is a significant benefit."

Kirk Larson, CIO, Children’s
Hospital of Central California, said: "Children’s Hospital of Central California has chosen NetApp as a
strategic partner because of their ability to help us achieve our business
objectives. Up to now, we have been able to run our entire enterprise, with the
exception of Meditech, on NetApp. The fact that we will now be able to bring
our Meditech system onto NetApp, and eliminate the last storage silo in our
business means we can ultimately better serve our patients."

Steve Clark, CIO, Albemarle
Hospital of North Carolina, said: "At
Albemarle Hospital, we chose NetApp because we needed a scalable,
easy-to-support solution that could deliver HA for our Meditech system and
enable us to meet stringent recovery times. Even before this new certification,
we have been very pleased with the results and are glad to see Meditech
validate our decision by extending their official certification to NetApp
storage."

Mike Belkner, associate VP, system technology, Meditech, said: "We are pleased to now offer our customers a
new storage choice with this certification of NetApp FAS. Over the past year,
we were hearing from our customers that they want to have an additional choice
for storage. NetApp was the name we heard the most."