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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Memorial Hospital has implemented an IBM tiered storage solution in conjunction with McKesson’s Horizon Medical Imaging™ picture archiving and communication system (PACS) to help clinicians access patients’ medical information faster, easier and more securely.
In the short time the system has been operational, Memorial Hospital reports that maintenance costs have been reduced significantly, and physicians are also able to more quickly access medical images.

Based in South Bend, Indiana, Memorial Hospital is a non-profit, 526-bed regional referral center for cardiac, cancer, childbirth, emergency medicine and rehabilitation services. Priding itself as a leader in innovation and providing high quality care, the hospital continues to focus on the importance of strategic IT investments as a means to deliver improved patient care. Memorial Hospital was looking to update its in-house PACS system with a storage infrastructure that would allow patient X-rays to be stored and quickly accessed by physicians. It selected McKesson’s Horizon Medical Imaging picture archiving and communication system to be integrated with IBM’s powerful storage systems. In working with McKesson, the hospital selected IBM over systems from EMC to build a state-of-the-art, three-tier PACS platform.

“In our business, it is a necessity to be able to access patients’ medical information quickly at the click of a button,” said Steve Huffman, director of information technology, Memorial Hospital. “The PACS solution supported by IBM’s storage technology has allowed for exceptional speed, scalability and reliability in storing all of our patients’ medical images. The combination of the positive technology performance and phenomenally accommodating services support that IBM offered has allowed us to reach our goal of providing scaleable, high-speed access to patient critical information.”