Case Study: Healthix achieves real-time access to 16M patient records and 27% faster retrieval with NetApp

Helping Doctors Save Lives by Connecting Records of More Than 16 Million Patients

Healthix, the largest public health information exchange in the U.S., aggregates more than 300 TB of patient records and supports over 16 million patients across hundreds of organizations in the New York region. Faced with rapid data growth (about 100 TB/year), disparate EHR systems, strict privacy requirements, and the need to deliver real-time patient history and alerts to emergency and primary-care clinicians, Healthix needed a high-performance, always-on platform to ensure timely, secure access to critical clinical data.

By deploying NetApp FAS8080 and ONTAP, Healthix achieved faster, more reliable data movement and nondisruptive operations while integrating with Epic, Cerner, and other EHRs. The solution enabled 24/7 access to hundreds of terabytes, authenticated and auditable user access, nightly risk-score recalculations for 16 million patients, a 27% faster retrieval of patient information from the clinical portal, and a 45% increase in data consumption within its reporting platform—improving care coordination and reducing unnecessary hospital stays.

Healthix

Todd Rogow

Chief Information Officer