Healthcare imaging and other patient data are increasing rapidly requiring high capacity archival storage with guaranteed data authenticity and permanency.

The growing healthcare imaging capacity and record retention compliance information life cycle management (ILM) requirements are relentlessly pushing the storage envelope with unprecedented rate increases from 68 PetaBytes (68,000 TeraBytes) in 2003 already reaching 238 PetaBytes in 2006. Multislice CTs result in modalities of up to 1 GigaByte of storage. And the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is forcing organizations to keep complete patient records for decades!

Hospitals, clinics and doctors offices to pharmaceutical, medical devices, and biotechnology companies, government bodies, and academic research labs are being forced to reevaluate and modify their archival storage policies.

Archival storage technology must be high-capacity, permanent, open and truly unalterable to meet the fast-paced needs of this highly-regulated and standardized environment. Mempile’s TeraDisc™ technology will soon be able to record 1TB optical discs (multi-session WORM) that allow truly random data access and will be easily integrated into any PACS or HIPAA environment creating a significant increase in archival capacity at greatly reduced marginal costs.

Patient data archived forever. Without limits.