Simplify Information Lifecycle Management for Healthcare

The rapid progression of healthcare IT demands that facilities stay abreast of the latest trends and government mandates, and creates a challenging environment for the legacy applications in use today. Managing changing application requirements against staff, patient and regulatory initiatives can be expensive and inefficient. With a joint solution based on a combined Hitachi Content Platform and Informatica Data Archive architecture, hospital data centers can retire legacy applications. They can better manage data growth and costs, and free up resources to focus on innovation and healthcare modernization initiatives.

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Retire Legacy Systems in HealthcareReplacing legacy applications with electronic patient records (EPR) and electronic healthcare records (EHR) systems that are higher performing, better integrated and clinically innovative, is a top priority for any healthcare payer or provider CIO. These inno-vations will help meet new mandates for improved efficiency and patient outcomes. However, as new systems come online, many organizations maintain legacy systems longer than planned rather than migrating data to the new information systems. The penalty? They incur additional costs of managing redundant systems.

The maintenance of legacy data is costly and adds unnecessary risks. As applications are replaced, the hospital’s already-busy IT staff must now manage a different generation of technology that will become increasingly difficult to keep compliant and affordable. The long-term costs of maintaining legacy applica-tions can run into the millions of dollars for enterprise systems. Hospitals can realize significant budget sav-ings through a cost-effective application retirement solution or a perpetual live archive for databases, with a joint solution based on a combined Hitachi Content Platform and Informatica Data Archive architecture solution. Together, these technologies provide complete information lifecycle management

SOLUTION PROFILE

(ILM) capabilities to handle data growth and reduce costs for healthcare applica-tions through intelligent tiered storage and archiving.

Improve Performance, Meet Compliance and Legal Requirements2 Solutions, 1 Architecture

Archiving structured data from production applications enables IT organizations to keep pace with increasing activity while mitigating effects of exponential growth of database data. Integration of Hitachi Content Platform and Informatica Data Archive allows enterprises to experience the true value of 2 distinct solutions in 1 implementation: application retirement and live archive. The process for both solutions is automated and efficient (see Figure 1). Informatica Data Archive relocates application data to a highly

compressed, secure, easily accessible struc-tured data archive. Hitachi Content Platform provides cost-effective storage, and retains and authenticates application data from Informatica Data Archive.

Live Archive

Live archive enables your IT organization to transparently move inactive data out of legacy databases to Hitachi Content Platform to optimize application perfor-mance. Hitachi Content Platform and Informatica Data Archive create the ideal live archive solution for implementing a database growth management initiative, empowering your organization to:

■■ Improve application performance.■■ Reduce maintenance costs.■■ Mitigate unplanned downtime by shrink-ing maintenance windows.

Figure 1. Hitachi Content Platform and Informatica Data Archive Solution Process

■■ Maintain predictable service level agreements.■■ Ensure regulatory compliance for search, discovery and reporting.■■ Support a cost-effective balance of on-premises database archiving storage platform and cloud-based storage.

Application Retirement

Application retirement safely archives legacy hospital information systems (HIS), includ-ing departmental information applications, digital imaging and patient monitoring applications, while maintaining access to retired data and enforcing retention poli-cies. The legacy system can then be retired indefinitely while users continue to access relevant data in a convenient way. Hitachi Content Platform and Informatica Data Archive provide this solution to help your organization:

■■ Reduce data management costs.■■ Maintain regulatory retention compliance.■■ Avoid unnecessary hardware and soft-ware maintenance fees.■■ Practice efficient and effective retention and disposal processes.■■ Reduce the risk of loss of vendor support for legacy applications.■■ Maintain appropriate levels of access to legacy data using preferred reporting tools.■■ Enable e-discovery across data sources.

About Hitachi Content PlatformHitachi Content Platform integrates seam-lessly with Informatica Data Archive. It is an intelligent, object storage system that supports multiple tiers of storage for a wide range of structured and unstructured content, with a multitenant architecture and object versioning, all in a single platform. Other important features are:

■■ Content immutability via “write once, read many” (WORM) capabilities.■■ Content retention policy capabilities at the storage layer.■■ Encryption of data at rest against unau-thorized access.■■ Microsoft® Active Directory® and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration to manage authenti-cated access.■■ Replication services for disaster recovery.■■ High scalability, up to 40PB.

About Informatica Data ArchiveInformatica Data Archive is a highly scalable and proven software platform that delivers sustained and improved application per-formance for production applications while delivering significant cost savings by safely retiring legacy applications. Key features include:

■■ Application metadata and data discovery to ensure the archive maintains data rela-tional integrity.■■ As high as 98% compression to minimize the archive data footprint.■■ Open query-able access to the archive data using standard Microsoft SQL Server® via ODBC/JDNC interfaces.

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Safely Retire Applications

■■ Eliminate infrastructure and licensing costs for applications that are no longer in use.■■ Archive data from a broad range of applications, database platforms and source systems with Informatica’s industry-leading library of connectors.■■ Maintain full accessibility to retired application data while maintaining convenient and appropriate levels of access for users.

Optimal Access and Security

■■ Enable compliance and e-discovery.■■ Extend corporate retention policies to structured application data and enforce them with Hitachi Content Platform.■■ Enable users to rapidly search, discover and view archived data.■■ Maintain accessibility to archived data for any long-term e-discovery and compli-ance requirements.■■ Encrypt data at rest on Hitachi Content Platform.

Reliable Live Archive

■■ Employ flexible archive and purge capabilities for quick reduction and continued maintenance of the overall size of production databases.■■ Reduce inactive or closed transaction volumes in intensively used business applications; ensure that dormant data does not interfere with day-to-day use of active data.■■ Archive inactive data to Hitachi Content Platform while maintaining transparent access for end users.■■ Enable faster backups, smaller clones and less outage time during patching and upgrading cycles.

SOLUTION BENEFITS

■■ Integrated, Web-based point-and-click report generation and data visualization for convenient archive data access.■■ Compliance manager to ensure that data retention policies are adhered to.■■ Keyword search with e-discovery and legal hold support.

Next Steps Together, Hitachi Content Platform and Informatica Data Archive seamlessly apply information lifecycle management and data retention policies by moving aged and inactive

application data to an appropriate tier of stor-age. The benefits include reduced backup and maintenance windows, improved response time, and system resource utilization while ensuring your data is safe, secure and avail-able when needed. For more information regarding this solution contact your Hitachi or Informatica sales representative or visit www.HDS.com or www.informatica.com.

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