Data Storage and Archiving

MEDITECH structures its data storage and archiving capabilities to ensure users always have fast, easy, and reliable access to information and secure storage of information. MEDITECH offers health care organizations a wide range of products that assist in creating the most efficient system for data storage and archiving.

MEDITECH offers powerful Data Archiving capabilities that allow customers to incorporate data normally contained on paper (such as patient consent forms) into electronic patient records. Data Archiving stores patient-specific information and includes the ability to scan and associate documents with specific patients.

Additionally, Data Archiving includes a "document archiving" capability. This enables health care organizations to store images of documents not associated with patients. For example, departments such as Human Resources can scan employee application forms into the system, making them available on-line.

Purge options and time frames for information stored in MEDITECH's system are hospital-defined. Because these purges are performed in the background, they do not require system downtime.

MEDITECH works with industry-leading hardware manufacturers Compaq, Dell, EMC, IBM, Valco, and Blue Chip Technologies to provide the top-of-the-line equipment for information storing. The products utilized by MEDITECH include the latest models of high-end storage solutions such as the Compaq Storage Works 8000, the Dell PowerVault™, EMC Symmetrix system, and various IBM Storage products.

MEDITECH provides a separate Data Repository with a SQL database so users can perform database analysis without impacting their live environment. The Data Repository uses a database structure well-suited to this purpose.

The MEDITECH Data Repository product is considered an integral component in a facility's long-term storage solution. The Data Repository product was designed to be a SQL database of information from MEDITECH's transactional systems.