Case Study: Regional West Medical Center improves image access and disaster recovery with Nexsan Assureon

Regional West Medical Center reduces medical image recall from 24–48 hours to minutes with Nexsan

Regional West Medical Center, a 180-bed regional medical facility, faced significant challenges with its outdated medical image archive infrastructure. The existing system, which relied on a slow and complex tape library for long-term storage, created unacceptable delays of 24-48 hours for retrieving older patient images and jeopardized its PACS workflow. Additionally, its manual tape-based disaster recovery process was unreliable and resource-intensive. The facility sought a solution from vendor Nexsan to improve performance and implement a robust disaster recovery plan.

Nexsan implemented its Assureon medical image archive solution, which provided immediate online access to all historical images, reducing retrieval times from hours to minutes. The self-managing appliance included built-in disaster recovery with remote replication and failover, eliminating the manual processes. The solution improved staff efficiency, freed up primary storage capacity, and provided consistent, reliable performance. Nexsan's solution ensured improved data protection and availability for all of the medical center's patient records.

Regional West Medical Center