Healthcare and life sciences

By 2010, 30% of the data stored on the world's computers will be medical images. To accommodate the information growth, the world's healthcare solutions need to change. Using tools like electronic medical records, wireless computing devices and health support networks, healthcare can be smarter.

The healthcare industry faces unique challenges in managing IT and storage:

• Integrated information management
• Patient records and data management to meet privacy and regulatory requirements
• IT optimization
• R&D Data on Demand
• Disaster recovery and continuous application availability
• Scalability and manageability
• Cost pressures

IBM Information Infrastructure solutions can help:

• Provide continuous, undisrupted access to information so that healthcare providers, payers and drug developer clients can leverage it when and where it is needed.
• Efficiently store, retain and protect patient records, research study and clinical data.
• Ensure security and privacy of patient information as it is generated, managed, and shared across the enterprise.
• Offer scalability to address the information growth seamlessly without disrupting service.
• Provide infrastructure optimization (reducing redundancy and cost in infrastructure).

IBM has the trained resources, skills, and solutions to help healthcare payer, provider and pharmaceutical clients to protect and manage information across their organizations and enable secure and efficient operations.

• Video: Spectrum Health improves productivity with GMAS
• Video: Iowa Health System benefits from a scalable enterprise class GMAS solution to store and manage their sensitive patient data
• Case study: IBM XIV Storage System helps lower patient risk at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (VCUHS)
• Case study: University Health Care System improves patient care with enterprise grid storage system
• White paper: Optimizing Medical Imaging With Grid (120KB)
• Press release: IBM Introduces Breakthrough Grid Medical Computing Solution
• Case studies: IBM System Storage Case Studies(7024KB)
• IBM solutions for the healthcare and life sciences industry
• IBM Smarter Planet Healthcare Solutions