Taking Control
of the Healthcare Data Deluge
Regulatory policies stemming from legislation such as the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Regulation 21 CFR Part 11,
and various state enactments have had far-reaching consequences for healthcare
and pharmaceutical companies. These and other legislative mandates have
created specific challenges for storing and managing enormous volumes
of healthcare data.
IT infrastructures
find it difficult to meet these challenges, whether they stem from healthcare
payers wanting more resources to store claims transactions, drug manufacturers
looking for more cost-effective ways to store and access lengthy FDC-required
research data, or hospital networks desiring to retain thousands of x-rays
and CAT scans online. FileTek's StorHouse® data management software
helps healthcare organizations overcome these challenges by providing
a proven data retention and access system with virtually unlimited scalability.
Why Should Healthcare
Organizations Use StorHouse?
StorHouse is award-winning software for managing gigabytes to petabytes
of business and fixed content data such as claim form images and medical
x-rays. It provides economical and comprehensive support for data storage
compliance over multiple years. FileTek developed StorHouse to be a highly
scalable solution with high data availability and extended recovery features
that ensure business continuance.
StorHouse supports a variety of data interfaces that provide maximum flexibility
for healthcare end-user applications. These interfaces allow simultaneous
concurrent access to relational data and fixed content by diverse business
units from a single enterprise repository, simplifying the business process
and reducing costs.
Using StorHouse
for Relational Data
The StorHouse relational database management component enables StorHouse
to function as a database extension for the most popular databases (for
example, Oracle®, DB2 UDB™, and SQL Server™). This interface
provides direct, SQL row-level access to data on cost-effective StorHouse
alternative media. By moving less frequently accessed data from the primary
database management system (DBMS) to StorHouse-managed alternative media,
organizations can reduce their total cost of data ownership (TCO) and
remove the burden of managing this data from the primary DBMS. The net
result is a more efficient and cost-effective primary DBMS architecture.
Figure 1 illustrates
the advantages of moving less frequently accessed data to StorHouse.
Figure 1 - Healthcare Data Storage
Strategies with StorHouse
