Comport Solution
- 1. Where better solutions come out of storage healthcare solutions Comport Consulting enables healthcare providers to reduce the complexity of their clinical application environments, reduce server and storage hardware costs and streamline their HIT workflow to deliver better patient care more efficiently. Comport specializes in designing and delivering Healthcare Information Management solutions, including: • Grid based storage infrastructure with automated ILM policies to place data across multiple tiers and locations: built-in disaster recovery, retention control and compliance, • A vendor-neutral image archive; the hospital owns its patient data, not the individual PACS application vendors, • Clinical workflow integration of multiple HIS, RIS and MWL environments for EMR and Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) participation. We build our solutions utilizing open, standards-based hardware and middleware from healthcare IT technology leaders. We deliver on-time, on-budget solutions to hospital organizations, consolidation imaging centers, diagnostic labs and large, physician-owned practices. Our Healthcare team members are certified professionals in healthcare information management systems and members of continuity the HIMSS national and local chapter organizations. We speak the Doctor’s language when it comes to clinical information technology. compliance Grid-based, storage infrastructure Comport’s primary platform for medical archiving is the HP Medical Archive Solution: a tightly integrated, Proliant server network (Grid) providing secure, fault tolerant, tiered storage for DICOM images, HL/7 or XDS documents and other patient files. Built on Bycast StorageGrid™ software, the HP MAS provides HIPAA compliant patient data storage over the lifetime of the data with automated migration between technology generations. Because it operates across your standard LAN/WAN network, the StorageGrid can automatically insure you have fast, reliable access to patient records and images, wherever and whenever you need them. HP MAS will apply your organizations protection and retention policies to every data object in the archive to insure it remains available in its original form until it is purged from the archive at the compliance end date. A HIPAA compliant audit trail is kept for all activities associated with the objects in the archive. Vendor Neutral Archive for Patient Studies Comport uses Acuo’s Vendor Neutral Archive middleware to provide healthcare clients the ability to force the multiple Radiology and Cardiology PACS (and many other “ologies” built as standalone solutions) to share common hardware infrastructure assets. Many of these stove- piped applications can share a virtualized HP server environment, networked storage arrays (SAN, NAS), HP MAS and universal workstations. This relieves complexity and lowers capital expenditures and operational costs. The VNA enabled by Acuo software, more importantly, morphs all the differently formatted patient data into a common format, retaining any proprietary information that PACS application vendors use for value add. The healthcare provider “owns” the data, not the proprietary application vendors. When the applications request files from the VNA, they are presented back to them in those particular proprietary formats that they require. Nothing is lost: the Doctors continue to have the rich user interface of the clinical application. Comport Consulting Corporation 78 Orchard Street P: 201.236.0505 F: 201.236.1335 www.comport.com
- 2. Where better solutions come out of storage healthcare solutions Acuo image management layer, delivered by Comport Consulting, extends the functionality of HP Medical Archive and Bycast StorageGrid solutions. Acuo software is deployed as a federation (or grid) of Proliant rack and/or BladeSystem servers connected over standard IP networking infrastructure. It uses the StorageGrid API to provide extremely fast file retrieval from the archive, either in a centralized topology or distributed across the footprint of the entire healthcare enterprise; for example, Healthcare Information Exchanges. Acuo provides interoperability with every major Radiology and Cardiology PACS, as well as other modalities, and stores the data in a common format. And so, once a patient study is ingested into the VNA, it never has to be migrated again. Since much of this patient data has to be available for viewing over extended periods of time (a lifetime, perhaps), it allows the Doctors to continue to take advantage of newer techniques and technology without having the expense and complexity of migrating what could easily be tens or hundreds of consolidation terabytes of proprietary formatted data. continuity Clinical Workflow Integration compliance The Acuo software also provides a DICOM Services Grid. Acuo servers are compliant DICOM devices, providing a very extensive implementation of DICOM service classes. This capability is used to integrate the healthcare IT workflow environments. Acuo DSG can route requests for patient studies and Electronic Medical Records between multiple Hospital Information Systems, Radiology and Cardiovascular Information Systems, multiple Modality Worklist environments and workstations. As an example: a Doctor, seeking information on a patient just brought into the Emergency Department, could go to his workstation (or mobile device) and do a Google-like search for any relevant reports or studies from all of the clinical applications in the enterprise…if they are managed within the Acuo DSG. This increases the level of patient care that can be provided and minimizes the time a Doctor needs to gather patient data. Acuo’s archive can be deployed on almost any available storage solution and is installed on sophisticated network fabric with intelligent load balancing and network virtualization technology. Currently, Acuo DICOM Services Grids are deployed in single hospitals, multi- site enterprises, cross-state Imaging Center Businesses, as well as international deployments. Comport Healthcare Solution Services Comport is HP’s Information Management Partner of the year, primarily for our focus on clinical solutions which satisfy many of the most urgent needs of healthcare providers today. We have a dedicated sales and engineering team who know the clinical side of the healthcare providers’ business. Our engineers are trained on HP MAS design and implementation, as well as native Bycast StorageGrid deployments on HP server, storage and network converged infrastructure. Our engineers are also certified on ACUO Vendor Neutral Archive software and DICOM Services Grid implementations. Comport provides a range of services designed to ensure our solutions are fully Comport Consulting Corporation aligned with the needs of the healthcare organization. We value long term customer 78 Orchard Street relationships where we continually seek ways to simplify the IT environment, P: 201.236.0505 lower your costs and provide a more responsive operation. F: 201.236.1335 www.comport.com