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CASESTUDYSATA DISK SYSTEMELIMINATES TAPEA NEXSAN CASE STUDYOF LENOX HILL RADIOLOGYLenox Hill Radiology provides state-of-the-art imagingservices as well as diagnoses. As Lenox Hill Radiology grew,the old tape-based archive failed to meet the performanceand reliability that doctors and patients demanded. Theychose Assureon, a super-secure high performance PACSarchive storage solution to help them increase performance,keep cost down and comply with HIPAA.

“Assureon has improved ouroperational efficiency byat least 25% and costs 50%less than other disk-basedarchive solutions.”JOE FUNARODIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGYLENOX HILL RADIOLOGYLenox Hill’s Predicted Capacity GrowthLenox Hill Radiology provides state-of-the-art imaging services as well asaccurate and efficient diagnoses. It applies the most innovative methods indiagnostic radiology, including PET/CT, CT/CTA, nuclear medicine, digital screeningmammography, digital x-ray and bone densitometry, and offers services to healthcarepractitioners, researchers, universities, hospitals and individual patients.Lenox Hill Radiology is a leader in deploying systems that deliver fast, accuratediagnostic capabilities. These systems ensure better patient diagnostics and care,provide cutting-edge data security for reliable and private patient informationaccess, and enable anywhere, on-demand access to Picture Archiving andCommunication System (PACS) images. Now, physical prints are replaced withdigital images for nearly instantaneous response to patient and physician needs.THE CHALLENGEAs Lenox Hill Radiology grew, the old tape-based archive failed to meet theperformance and reliability that doctors and patients demanded. Their imagearchive had grown to 14 Terabytes and it was time to find a new solution.3025Terabytes (TB)BACKGROUNDLike many other organizations in the healthcare industry, IT professionals at LenoxHill Radiology realized that continuous growth in image size and the ever-increasingvolume of image data would quickly consume existing data and archive storageresources. Image management and retrieval would be impacted as the storageresources became overburdened.201510502008200920102011US National Growth of PACS Imagestorage Required through 2010Terabytes Source: Frost and Sullivan PACS ReportCASESTUDY2Imation Enterprise Corp. 1 Imation Way, Oakdale, MN 55128-3414 p. 651.704.4000 f. 651.537.4675 www.imation.com Imation Corp. Imation and the Imation logo are trademarks of Imation Corp and its affiliates. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.(Rev. 04/08/14)

“The very slow imageretrieval times we had withtape, could be severalminutes to even hours,were unacceptable.Assureon is online, veryfast and completely secure,allowing doctors toimmediately access theirpatient’s images.”Lenox Hill Radiology’s IT leaders wanted to address these needs with a singleintegrated solution: Cost-effective Scalability: Lenox Hill Radiology needed to future-proof itsPACS image archive. With new mammography studies growing to 2 GB and128-slice CT studies approaching 10 GB in size, the new storage infrastructurehad to be highly scalable and cost-effective to keep pace with growing studysizes and quantities. Increased performance: Lenox Hill was using a tape-based image archive toaugment their primary storage, but it lacked the response time, performanceand reliability that physicians and their patients demanded. Further, thetape-based system was labor-intensive to operate and time-consuming tomanage. The new archive solution needed to provide nearly instantaneousimage retrieval and guarantee continuous access to images while alsoproviding user-friendly operation and management.LEMONT THORNHILLIT MANAGER, LENOX HILL RADIOLOGY Super-Secure HIPAA Compliance: Lenox Hill Radiology also complies withHIPAA regulations which required digital store of images for very long periodsof time, in many cases decades. The new storage system had to provide theautomated, secure data audits and integrity checking required for HIPAAcompliance and to meet Lenox Hill Radiology’s stringent requirements.Recovery time:tape vs diskTHE SOLUTIONLenox Hill Radiology turned to the storage experts at Maureen Data Systems.Together they reviewed available options which included expanding existing tapearchive, installing an optical system or moving to a high speed disk-based solution.After an extensive review, they selected an innovative approach with the Nexsanlong-term, secure storage archive — sureon is a highly scalable, high-performance disk-based archive storagesystem for PACS images and other fixed-content files and is certified with GEHealthcare DIS Centricity PACS-IW, a powerful Web-based PACS for acute careand ambulatory institutions. Assureon delivers all the required HIPAA compliancesupport including automated data protection, confidentiality, security, and studyretention management. The performance of Nexsan’s disk-based archive systemwas noticeably faster, in some applications 100 times faster than Lenox HillRadiology’s former existing tape-based system.3Imation Enterprise Corp. 1 Imation Way, Oakdale, MN 55128-3414 p. 651.704.4000 f. 651.537.4675 www.imation.com Imation Corp. Imation and the Imation logo are trademarks of Imation Corp and its affiliates. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.(Rev. 04/08/14)

“The scalability and flexibility ofthe GE and Nexsan solutionsallowed us to meet our shortterm needs while providing afuture-proof solution that willgrow and change along withour practices.”JOE FUNARODIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGYLENOX HILL RADIOLOGYTHE DEPLOYMENTLenox Hill Radiology installed an application server to host the different operationalelements of the GE Health-care–Dynamic Imaging Solutions’ Centricity PACS-IWsolution. A Nexsan SATABeast provides primary storage for Centricity PACS-IW.Nexsan’s Assureon disk-based secure archive replaced Lenox Hill’s existingtape-based archive system.The features and process flow enabled by the GE Healthcare– Dynamic ImagingSolutions’ Centricity PACS-IW, Nexsan SATABeast and Nexsan Assureonsolutions exceeded the requirements set forth by the Lenox Hill Radiology ITdepartment, thus delivering a user-friendly solution that is super-secure, very fastand cost-correct.GE Healthcare DIS Centricity PACS-IW and Nexsan SATA-Beastfor PACS primary storage offer a variety of benefits: Image collection and archiving from different modalities Images are easy to search and view Secure local and Internet access to images Fast, scalable, cost-correct primary storage(up to 42TB in just 4U; more than 400TB per rack)Nexsan Assureon adds value in many different ways:GE DYNAMIC IMAGING Securely archives PACS images to meet long-term retention policies Meets mandatory HIPAA requirements Various Modalities at Lenox Hill Radiology WORM storage ensures image immutability GE Healthcare DIS Centricity PACS-IW(Web-based viewing and access) Continual auditing to ensure image integrity and authenticity PrimaryStorage: Nexsan SATABeast Archived images can be encrypted to ensure patient security and privacy Secure ArchiveStorage: Nexsan Assureon(Processing Node and Archive Storage) At the end of an image’s retention period, either the retention period canbe extended or the images can be permanently deleted Provides audit trail of user access Provides local or remote replication for Business Continuity In remote replication: when primary site is down, applications transparentlyfail over to secondary site. When primary site is back up and active,Assureon’s automatic self-healing replication re-synchronizes the two sites.CASESTUDY4Imation Enterprise Corp. 1 Imation Way, Oakdale, MN 55128-3414 p. 651.704.4000 f. 651.537.4675 www.imation.com Imation Corp. Imation and the Imation logo are trademarks of Imation Corp and its affiliates. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.(Rev. 04/08/14)

ASSUREON – SECURE, SCALABLE,COST-EFFECTIVE ARCHIVEAssureon is known for its next generationsecurity measures, but when you look ‘underthe hood,’ Assureon reveals a full suite offeatures.Manageable Simple to install and use Automated audits of file availability, integrityand access Automated file fingerprinting Automated file ingestion, retrieval, audits,de-duplication and replication withoutuser intervention Quick and easy search with nearinstantaneous retrievalScalable No object limit; scale withoutperformance penalty Scale performance andcapacity independently Scale from a few terabytes tomultiple petabytes Scale from a few terabytes tomultiple petabytesGreenKEY BENEFITS Cost-effective Scalability: Assureon’s processing power can be scaledindependently of its storage capacity. This processing power is designed onAssureon’s unique grid architecture, which expands to process billions ofimages. Assureon’s data storage nodes are comprised of Fibre Channelconnected, high-density SATA storage systems. It is also highly flexible,growing to hundreds of TB for pennies per MB.This scalable architecture has saved Lenox Hill Radiology tens of thousands ofdollars in storage costs while also allowing the digital imaging center to growsignificantly without needing to replace the Assureon infrastructure. High-performance: Assureon’s architecture coupled with its disk storagecapabilities provides the performance Lenox Hill Radiology requires. Because ofits grid architecture, additional Assureon processing nodes can be easily addedto scale performance without disrupting day-to-day operations. Assureon isfully automated and disk-based, therefore eliminating cumbersome andexpensive aspects of handling, storing and restoring images from tape. Secure HIPAA Compliance: Assureon utilizes the highest levels of encryptionand access security to ensure the privacy of patient records and images.Assureon is unique in that it possesses powerful HIPAA auditing and integrityassurance capabilities.It continuously performs two audits on all archived PACS images to ensure eachimage exists in all Assureon local or remote replicated archives and to verify eachimage’s integrity and authenticity by ensuring every bit of the image’s contentmatches its digital fingerprint. If Assureon detects a problem, it automaticallyreplaces the missing or damaged image from another Assureon replicated archivestore — either locally or from an Assureon business continuity/disaster recoverysite. Assureon also enforces HIPAA retention periods to ensure that images arekept for the requisite amount of time. Energy saving AutoMAID reduces energycosts up to 60% “Speed with Green” — near instant-aneousresponse from idle state Green Maximizer automatically migratesfiles to ‘green, greener, greenest’ states ofenergy savings based on file usageCASESTUDY5Imation Enterprise Corp. 1 Imation Way, Oakdale, MN 55128-3414 p. 651.704.4000 f. 651.537.4675 www.imation.com Imation Corp. Imation and the Imation logo are trademarks of Imation Corp and its affiliates. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.(Rev. 04/08/14)