The product combines Carestream Health’s Versatile Intelligent Patient Archive (VIParchive) and the newly enhanced Hitachi Content Archive Platform in a single footprint that, according to its creators, is easy to install, administer and support.

Carestream Health’s VIParchive is a software platform that can take clinical information from multiple healthcare sources and consolidate this information in an intelligent archive. The Hitachi Content Archive Platform, meanwhile, is an active archive solution that allows organizations to satisfy regulatory and corporate governance mandates and provides rapid access to archived data when needed.

The growth in storage is faster in healthcare than any other vertical market, yet the infrastructure maturity in these organizations is believed to be some three to five years behind the industry average, said Jack Domme, executive vice president of global solutions, strategy and development at Hitachi Data Systems. Working with Carestream Health, we are helping companies meet the data access and performance challenges which can directly impact the quality of patient care.