Technology has revolutionized the way healthcare institutions manage patient care - saving countless lives.  Yet the proliferation of data-intensive technology, particularly in medical imaging and diagnosis, requires specialized tools to allow today’s healthcare professionals fast and reliable access to patient’s files while ensuring patient data is stored permanently and securely for the lifetime of patient or longer.  

These issues are compounded when the complex and strict requirements of HIPAA and other regulations are considered.  Healthcare organizations need solutions that help provide exceptional patient care, allow for flexibility in the long-term, and help ensure compliance with regulations for the life of the patient.

Fortunately, Plasmon provides archival solutions addressing these needs that are both cost-effective and more secure than other alternatives.  Working closely with key technology partners to directly integrate with their solutions, Plasmon utilizes UDO-based Plasmon solutions like the UDO Archive Appliance and Enterprise Active Archive, to help thousands of hospitals and healthcare organizations provide superior patient care every day.

Benefits
Permanence and longevity – unlike disk solutions, UDO media can be stored for more than 50 years without loss of data integrity

Authenticity – Plasmon offers hardware-based WORM – so it can not be hacked like software-based WORM emulation

Fast data access – unlike tape, the UDO Archive Appliance’s RAID cache deliver high-performance read/write speeds for random access to patient data

Low total cost of ownership – Plasmon solutions utilize tiered storage providing the least expensive total cost of ownership and greener solutions compared to other storage options

Scalability – solutions are sized to meet the needs of your operations today and grow with your organization over time

Continuity – flexible, low-cost disaster-recovery options to help ensure patient records are not lost

Flexibility – Plasmon solutions combine hardware and software to create solution to accommodate multiple archive “pools” provide to consolidated and efficient operations

Customer Experiences
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center –
”With the addition of the initial UDO AA638, we immediately improved visibility into our business information and easily met our service level agreements and best practices for archiving our critical data…I chose the Plasmon UDO solution because its capacity, scalability, reliability, and price were all in-sync with my roadmap for our storage practice.”  - Peter Kijewskp, Technology Solution Manager, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Bartron Medical Imaging –
“Because we wanted a solution that was easily scalable but also had true performance, we realized that Plasmon UDO technology was the only choice… Plasmon stood out as the clear leader.” – Fitz Walker, CEO, Bartron Medical Imaging

Southeast Louisiana Veternas Health Care –
“We had to determine what information was retrievable among the absolute chaos of the first week after Katrina…We were able to recover all of the patient images off the Plasmon libraries…We are now primarily using the Plasmon UDO Archive Appliance for its long-term recoverability.” – Kenneth Allen, Health Systems Specialist, South Central Health Care

Medizinische Hochschule – Hannover, Germany –
“The UDO Archive Appliance has proven itself as a very reliable solution and we are confident that UDO provides the best possible media technology for archiving our patient’s images.” – Stefan Bartels, Project Manager, Medizinische Hochschule

Amicas, Inc. – 
“Plasmon’s UDO Library provides AMICAS with a stable, cost-effective solution with the capability to store large amounts of data on a single piece of removable media.” – Catherine Donohue, AMICAS

Our Partners
Technology Partners
Agfa Healthcare
“Ensuring that we could provide a PACS archive solution that helps customers meet HIPAA compliance at a reasonable cost was a critical requirement.  This was guaranteed with the performance, longevity, and authenticity of the UDO Archive Appliance.” ­– Lenny Reznik, Director Enterprise Imaging and Information, Agfa Healthcare

GE Healthcare
“The UDO Archive Appliance was the optimal solution that met all requirements — HIPAA compliance, security, fast access, longevity and cost.” – Sanjay Shah
Vice President & CIO, Cabell Huntington Hospital

For a full list of technology partners, click here.

Plasmon Products
UDO Archive Appliance – is designed for the long-term storage of patient images and records. Its architecture combines software and the performance and simplicity of network-attached RAID, with the longevity and authenticity of UDO.

Enterprise Active Archive – is the most complete archiving product on the market.  It integrates Plasmon’s Archive Appliance with Assureon software to create an intelligent, multi-teir archiving platform that manages information and its retention.

UDO Archive Appliance Express – is based on the Archive Appliance architectures but specifically adapted to the needs of smaller medical clinics.

UDO2 – is not “your father’s optical media”.  Rather, UDO2 is the state of the art storage media for long-term archive. 
To learn more about all of Plasmon’s product, click here.

Other Information
Solution Brief – Plasmon UDO Archive Solutions