Visible Impact and COVID-19 Connection
Today, more than 200 applications, including all of Halifax Health’s tier 1 applications, such as PACS, TeleTracking and several EMRs, run on Pure. Halifax Health has reduced its recovery objectives and recovery time objectives significantly by moving to Pure. While its infrastructure has grown, Halifax Health’s IT team can manage the same infrastructure with the same, if not fewer resources.
Halifax Health also has cut the time spent managing storage by 75 percent, which proved especially valuable early in the pandemic when the hospital system needed to develop in-house telemedicine and virtual waiting room applications rapidly. The IT team was able to redeploy staff to implement the telehealth platform in three days – a high-impact transformation in a very short time.
“Halifax Health is an amazing example of how healthcare organisations can transform the role of IT, enabling resiliency and agility and supporting the innovation necessary to care for their patients. By retiring legacy infrastructure and making a strategic investment in a modern data platform from Pure, the team was able to remove years of technical debt that made Halifax Health’s environment complex and, more importantly, they were able to give clinicians and patients an optimised clinical experience,” said Josh Gluck, Vice President of Global Healthcare Technology Strategy, Pure Storage. “Storage reliability, resilience, cost-control, security, performance and operational simplicity aren’t just non-negotiables; they’re game-changers for providers, especially those under pressure to innovate and adapt to new challenges as they improve patient outcomes.”
With high-performing, resilient and easy-to-manage storage, Halifax Health can accelerate its core applications with fewer resources, delivering the best patient care today and well into the future. Pure’s simplicity enables Halifax Health IT team members to focus on optimizing and enhancing IT, instead of spending time managing storage. For example, the virtual disk expansion process is 10x faster, which is easier on staff and reduces the opportunity for mistakes. The organisation can cross-train engineers and increase staffing efficiencies, while minimizing any technology-related frustrations. Pure allows IT resources to be redeployed in the organisation to ensure patients and clinicians are receiving the highest level of care possible.
To learn more about how Halifax Health helps staff optimise patient outcomes through technology, read the case study.
