Case Study: CHRISTUS Health doubles MEDITECH EHR performance and avoids a $2M storage purchase with Condusiv Technologies' V-locity

CHRISTUS Health Doubles Electronic Health Record Performance with V-locity® Acceleration Software

CHRISTUS Health, a multinational system operating roughly 350 hospitals, outpatient centers and clinics, faced serious performance problems after virtualizing its server environment in 2012—most notably on 70+ servers running the MEDITECH EHR. Latency and sluggish throughput impacted clinical workflows and pushed nightly medical-billing batch jobs into daytime hours, and the organization was looking to avoid a disruptive $2 million SAN storage upgrade to resolve the issues.

CHRISTUS deployed Condusiv’s V-locity software, which optimizes I/O at the OS layer by consolidating writes, caching hot data and preventing NTFS fragmentation (via the MediWrite engine), cutting I/O traffic by 50% or more. The result: overnight elimination of performance problems, a doubling of patient-record access speed, billing batches reduced from 20 to 12 hours, and avoidance of the planned $2 million hardware purchase.

CHRISTUS Health

Tom Swearingen

CHRISTUS Health