Streamlining Clinical Processes for Enhanced Patient Care: Pure Storage Enhancements

Healthcare Data Challenges: Navigating the Modern Maze

Senior healthcare manager at Pure Storage, Priscilla Sandberg, drops some truth bombs. Healthcare organizations today face a crazy conundrum: ensuring swift access to crucial clinical data, preserving system resilience, and combatting escalating operational costs.

Turbocharging Clinical Workflows through Data Access

Slow-loading electronic health records systems drive clinicians up the wall and are a leading cause of burnout. Barriers to data access muddy clinical workflows and negatively influence patient outcomes.

"Even in present-day healthcare ecosystems, many organizations grapple with enabling clinicians to access data promptly and effortlessly for clinical decision-making," Sandberg shares. "EHR systems depend on the performance of the underlying storage, something clinicians generally don't give a second thought."

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Pure Storage's support for healthcare workloads creates faster loading times in clinical systems, enabling clinicians to administer care more promptly. One example of streamlined workflows can be spotted in radiology. When a radiologist is juggling an obscene number of images in their worklist, mere seconds can make a tremendous difference in their productivity for the day. By providing a high-performance platform, radiologists can diagnose more quickly, and clinicians can obtain results faster – a plus for patient outcomes.

guaranteeing Continuous Uptime in Healthcare organizations

Healthcare leaders are increasingly wooed by Pure Storage's platform, thanks to its prowess in providing continuous uptime during storage upgrades and when adding capacity. One testament to this is the Atlantic Health System, a provider serving patients across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, which once grappled with downtime for its Epic workflow. Atlantic sought out Pure Storage to upgrade its data infrastructure. This smart move eliminated downtime risks for the EHR, boosted operational efficiency, and opened the door for significant cost savings, enabling AHS to prioritize patient care even more.

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Financial Flexibility for Healthcare Organizations: Frugal yet Powerful

Sandberg highlights that financial flexibility is a vital perk. "Financial pressures constantly murmur in the healthcare ecosystem, be it government regulations or patient care demands. Given these pressures, it's essential that organizations embrace cost-effective, scalable solutions that don't saddle them with the staff and capital costs of legacy storage solutions nearing the end of their lifecycles. When customers implement Pure Storage, we always remind them that this will be their last data migration."

By jettisoning storage overhead, organizations can allocate staff and know-how to initiatives that directly bolster patient care.

Pure Storage's infrastructure allows organizations to scale as nimbly as needed, ensuring they can support emerging initiatives such as telemedicine or AI-driven imaging analysis without being shackled by outdated storage capacities.

The company offers a subscription model that enables organizations to add or remove capacity without risky and exorbitant migrations.

"Organizations no longer have to commit to a certain storage amount and hope they won't outgrow it," Sandberg explains.

This flexibility cuts financial and operational risks while fueling strategic growth.

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A Peek into the Future: AI and Advanced Analytics in Healthcare

What's next for healthcare? Sandberg intimates that Pure Storage is helping healthcare systems prepare for the growing adoption of advanced analytics and AI technologies. However, she cautions that many healthcare organizations must first conquer long-standing data silos.

"One of the challenges healthcare organizations face is that they have siloed sets of data across various systems," she reveals.

To triumph in AI, healthcare providers must first rectify the data infrastructure and unify their efforts.

"We frequently discuss infrastructure rationalization," she says. "Taking an inventory of infrastructure, planning for the end of life of antiquated storage, and looking to a unified future on the Pure Storage enterprise platform help reduce the complexity of pulling, converting, and sharing data across multiple platforms and sites. This foundation paves the way for AI and analytics."

"Pure Storage is gung-ho about aiding our clients in deploying AI," Sandberg adds, "but not just for use within their organizations. By constructing AI platforms in healthcare, we can share data across broader communities, improving patient outcomes. In the end, that's what it's all about."

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Streamlining Clinical Processes for Enhanced Patient Care: Pure Storage Enhancements