Florida-Based Halifax Health Selects Pure Storage FlashArray

Halifax Health, a Florida based hospital recognized for its cardiovascular expertise, has selected Pure Storage, Inc. as the foundation for its Meditech instances

Halifax Health Selects Pure Storage

Because Hurricanes strike Florida on a regular basis, Mike Marques, VP and CIO at Halifax Health, makes risk management his priority.

In addition to keeping hospital systems up and running, he needs to make sure that the medical staff has access to health information whenever they need it to provide exceptional care and optimize patient outcomes. Marques tackled both challenges head-on by migrating the hospital’s Meditech platform – the largest in the country – to Pure Storage. So he was ready when another storm hit, this time Covid-19, which forced the hospital to reconfigure patient workflows while protecting staff from infection.

Impact on Halifax Health:

Empowers clinical staff to spend more face time with patient
Ability to quickly build and launch healthcare applications
Keeps employees engaged with new opportunities for growth

A Relationship Built on Trust and Technology
Most people expect their doctors to look at them, not their computer. But slow healthcare systems can disrupt the all-important doctor-patient relationship.

“My job is to make sure they spend as little time as possible at their keyboards and as much time face-to-face with patients,” says Marques.

DR and BC play a big role in making this happen. He wanted to create multiple instances of the hospital’s Meditech electronic health record (EHR) environment to increase resiliency. But standing in his way were costly array, hardware, and licensing upgrades for the existing legacy storage infrastructure and a limited talent pool to manage such a complex solution.

Strong, Stable, and Simple Storage
Marques seized the opportunity to reconsider his options and selected Pure Storage FlashArray as the foundation for Halifax Health’s Meditech instances. The hospital added 2 more sites to its DR setup, bolstering BC for approximately 200 applications and more than 150 databases.

“Our investment in Pure Storage allows us to retain full control of our infrastructure, without running up operating expenses,” he says. “We’ve had nothing but 100% uptime ever since.”

Just as important was the promise of simplicity. Pure1 gives Halifax Health visibility into its environment, with the peace of mind that Pure shares the responsibility for maintaining stability and performance all day, every day. That means doctors spend less time waiting for information and more time with patient.

Focusing on What Matters Most
With less time spent on storage tasks, Marques and his team have the ability to respond to more pressing needs, especially during the pandemic.

“Migrating to Pure Storage allows us to focus on quick-fire solutions that empower medical teams and protect patients from infection,” he says .

In just 3 days, the team built a tele-health platform, which handles more than 150 remote calls a day, a touch-free check-in system, and an application that tracks which rooms have been cleaned to minimize infection risk.

“The team is learning new skills while at the same time focusing on projects at the front line of patient care,” says Marques. “And this goes a long way in keeping our staff happy, engaged, and around for a long time.”

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