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Private "health cloud" secures growing volumes of data with 100% availability

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With 12,000+ medical professionals, 4 hospitals and 3,400 beds, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille is the largest health center in the Provence – Alpes – Côte d'Azur region of France — and the 3rd largest of France's academic hospital groups — offering the highest standards for clinical skills and patient care.

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Cutting-edge medical technology was generating swelling volumes of imaging data that had to remain 100% intact and available to thousands of clinicians responsible for often life-or-death patient care.

 

Scality RING gives AP-HM 24x7x365 data availability and can tolerate the loss of an entire data center plus an additional drive without any loss of data or accessibility.

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flag The Challenge

Swelling medical imaging data with life-or-death availability requirements
Cutting-edge medical technology was generating swelling volumes of imaging data that had to remain 100% intact and available to thousands of clinicians responsible for often life-or-death patient care.

AP-HM makes use of cutting-edge technology, which generates a lot of data. That data must remain 100% intact and available to the thousands of physicians and other clinicians who are responsible for often life-or-death patient care.

As new equipment was being onboarded, requirements and capacity for medical imaging were swelling. To top it off, more departments were looking to AP-HM IT for storage, and genomics was emerging as a new system priority.

tick Solution

A private health cloud configured to strict security and access requirements

The digital services team at AP-HM chose Scality RING as the basis for its private "health cloud" to secure its growing volumes of data. Configured to AP-HM's strict requirements for protocols, security levels and data access modes, Scality RING can tolerate the loss of an entire data center and an additional drive without any loss of data or accessibility.
Scality RING
GE PACS medical imaging archive

Today, the RING stores the medical imaging archive for GE PACS and backup data.

list The Results

24x7x365 availability — and demand from new departments to join the RING
100% availability
Ongoing support
Low TCO
In a hospital setting, keeping data available 24x7x365 is essential; quality care demands easy, always-on access to patient data.
AP-HM has been impressed with Scality's highly-responsive and available team.

With Scality RING, AP-HM now has 24x7x365 data availability and the peace of mind that comes with it, as waiting for data affects clinician efficiency and, potentially, patient outcomes. Thanks to the flexibility of Scality RING, AP-HM is looking to add a host of other use cases, including long-term retention, genomics archiving, genetic testing data and more.

The performance meets all user expectations. It's so good, in fact, that we're getting lots of requests from multiple departments to put new workloads on the Scality RING.

Renaud Masse

CTO, infrastructure management, AP-HM

Expertise: Scality's expertise in medical imaging archives — with supportive references and proven interfaces — brought peace of mind.

Scalability: Healthcare data volume is growing and retention is long; scalability without disruption is mission-critical.

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