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“ Each vendor does their business just a little bit differently but being able to bring that data in from those organisations in a fashion that allows those organisations to decommission their local archives , that ’ s a huge benefit . That is a benefit from an operational sustainability perspective , it ’ s a benefit because it returns those funds back to that organisation to allow them to reinvest them in delivering patient care instead of infrastructure .
“ It ’ s also a benefit because , quite honestly , with the magnitude of data that we ’ re storing , we ’ re able to do that with an enterprise-grade system that has full image replication across two disparate data centres in a way that a lot of hospitals just can ’ t accomplish . So , Edison Datalogue has enabled that level of complete image redundancy in a way that data availability and data loss are not even factors any more for us . So that ’ s been a huge win for us provincially .”
OCINet ’ s collaboration with GE HealthCare is vitally important , Veeneman adds . “ For us , the notion of swapping out vendors every couple of years is an untenable situation . When you ’ re dealing with 12 petabytes of data , and almost 200 million exams , you need a vendor you can trust .
“ The other aspect to this is we have enabled 80-90 % of the hospitals in the province of Ontario to decommission their local archives . So , we need a product and a vendor that we can count on long-term . Just like any client , we ’ re going to have bumps along the way . You ’ re going to have service disruptions , you ’ re going to have issues with technology , and you need to know that you ’ re working with a vendor
“ To be able to align on a singular technology stack creates a huge synergistic opportunity for us ”
DAVID VEENEMAN VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS , OCINET
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