Case Study: Shriners Hospitals for Children achieves 24x7 EMR uptime and 400% storage growth with Dell EMC

EMC boosts reliability and efficiency of EMR infrastructure for effective patient care

Shriners Hospitals for Children, a 22-hospital pediatric specialty care system, needed to modernize an EMR infrastructure that had become a complex, costly patchwork and was not reliably delivering actionable data to clinicians. To standardize, secure (HIPAA) and simplify operations, Shriners selected Dell EMC for an enterprise information infrastructure to support its Cerner EMR and other critical systems.

Dell EMC consolidated storage onto Dell EMC Symmetrix and unified storage, deployed SRDF replication and NetWorker backup, and paired the environment with VMware virtualization. The result: increased storage efficiency and availability, 400% storage growth (to ~300 TB) without adding staff, consolidation of 600 servers to 150, a 50% drop in trouble calls and no unscheduled downtime in three years—freeing funds and IT capacity to focus on patient care.

Shriners Hospitals for Children