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Healthcare Industries

Flexibility to Adapt to New Regulatory Needs

The Healthcare industry has long operated under a set of regulations which define Protected Health Information (PHI) under HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Until recently, these regulations have not been vigorously enforced. Several recent cases have seen healthcare organizations paying large fines for data privacy breeches. Additionally, the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has specifically targeted automating healthcare information with provisions in the Healthcare Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). A sub–part of this act is also driving the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy and Standards Committee to set forth necessary details to protect patient privacy and establish specific details on data management, immutability and data protection.

The healthcare regulatory landscape is constantly evolving and requires a flexible technology strategy when it comes to managing important healthcare electronic information with special attention to security, availability and scalability.

Permabit Features:

Permabit Dedupe 2.0 storage delivers a solution to meet the changing information retention, protection and management of the healthcare industry, delivering:

The ability to cost effectively manage long–term retention and scale to multiple petabytes addresses the volume of information and growth.
Data Protection that can lock down your files (WORM) and replicate them to secondary sites to ensure immutability and disaster recovery.
Flexibility to manage data over long term retention periods mixing read/write and immutability needs within the same system.
Ensure privacy and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information with built–in encryption.

Key Benefits

Permabit Enterprise Archive supports the Healthcare Industry in the following ways:

Flexible system that can respond to new regulations effortlessly and quickly.
Multi purpose system that enables combined compliance and general purpose archive data.
Cost effective archive storage effective cost of less than $1 per gigabyte that is leading the archive/compliance industry.
Compliance flexibility to manage WORM lock downs based on your needs and to address evolving regulatory changes.
Secure system that is rock solid in protecting your compliance and general purpose archive data.
Future proof system that seamlessly integrates new technology on–the–fly and without user interruption.

The Permabit Advantage
The Permabit Way	The Other Way
Built–in Technologies — No additional/special software or hardware is required for NFS/CIFS access, WORM, Encryption, Snapshots and data deduplication.	A la Carte Approach — Requires separate software and/or hardware to provide capabilities for NFS/CIFS access, WORM, Snapshots and data deduplication.
Survive Multiple Simultaneous Failures — Can survive entire storage nodes failing without data loss.	RAID — Cannot survive multiple concurrent storage node failures.
Patented Erasure Coding — Enables multiple PB scaling protecting data more effectively than RAID.	RAID — Data protection effectiveness drops off as 1 TB drives are added to arrays.
In–line Sub–file Data Deduplication — No de–dupe window needed. Reduces duplicate information at the block level allowing for greater storage efficiency.	Post–processing Deduplication — Requires disk staging area to hold data until it is processed for deduplication. Also, requires off–line window to process information.

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