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Infortrend Chosen for MIE's Digital Medical Records Applications
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 28 -- RAID storage expert Infortrend(R) today announced that Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE), a recognized leader in the field of digital medical records management, has selected Infortrend's EonStor(R) subsystems for their private communications network that allows physicians, medical groups, hospitals, and insurance companies to securely transmit electronic medical information.
With over 85 percent of physicians in northeastern Indiana subscribing to MIE's MedWeb to securely transmit clinical billing and patient-health information, MIE management and system administrators compiled an extensive list of requirements to make sure their storage platform could reliably handle the high traffic, highly sensitive information. Chief among these were standalone operation, simple and low cost maintenance, and no requirement for a RAID card in the server.
"Other systems we tested had very poor uptime reliability and performance, especially when compared with Infortrend," commented Jason Eicholtz, systems administrator for MIE. "We were looking for a combination of cost, performance, reliability, and build quality. Infortrend offered us lower investment and a simple storage solution. When the host computer needs nothing special to use or see the storage array, that's a huge plus."
"MIE's focus on the healthcare industry, with an emphasis on providing digital medical record applications, made the need for reliable storage our paramount concern," said Peter Norder, vice president of business development at MIE. Added Jason Eicholtz, "While reliability and performance are more important than cost, thankfully the Infortrend devices delivered on all fronts. Since our deployment is with ATA drives, our rack space, power usage, and cooling needs are far lower than a similar sized solution using SCSI drives."
MIE has incorporated several Infortrend products into its system, starting with the 12-drive bay SCSI-to-ATA subsystems, and has now standardized on the Fibre-to-SATA models. Infortrend's RAID products are part of MIE's secure data center, as key components of its application services provider (ASP) digital medical records (DMR) applications. EonStor subsystems are also part of MIE's Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) solutions used in hospitals, imaging centers, and specialty medical practices.
