Electronic health records (EHR), considered the wave of the future of healthcare, provide a number of benefits to patients and healthcare facilities: data sharing, simplified administration, analytics, a reduction in errors and better diagnostics for patients. It also presents a number of technical challenges, as the health records must be standardized and easy to share (yet secure) for the flow of information to do what it’s designed for. For this reason, it’s critical that organizations embarking on an electronic records campaign choose wisely when picking technology to support their programs.
While HP hasn’t exactly had smooth sailing as of late, the company has made strong inroads in selling its core technology into the electronic health records (EHR) marketplace. HP is announcing an important new customer this week: Orion Health, a New Zealand-based health information exchange (HIE), electronic health records and healthcare integration solutions company. Orion Health will use the HP Converged Cloud to support its global managed health services.
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According to HP, it will provide Orion Health with a scalable and secure virtual infrastructure based on the HP CloudSystem Matrix, an infrastructure-as a-service (IaaS) for private and hybrid cloud environments. This enables customers to quickly provision their infrastructure for physical and virtual environments. By implementing HP CloudSystem Solutions and HP Cloud Maps Solutions, Orion Health will have the flexibility to deliver cloud services that are tailored for each of its customers.
"Through a combination of HP Cloud Maps and Orion Health ManagedServices, we will be able to quickly build a comprehensive catalog of applications for simple deployment, reducing the time to deliver a new application," said Paul Cunningham, chief technical architect for Orion Health, in a statement. "By selecting HP, Orion Health will have the flexibility to deliver cloud services that are tailored for each customer on demand, and will be more agile and efficient while maintaining industry compliance and security standards."
Orion will be better positioned to increase availability through a system enclosure that adds redundancy to each server so there is no single point of failure and maintain compliance with New Zealand healthcare rules and regulations, all while reducing administration costs to run the new system.
Edited by
Alisen Downey
