Unity Healthcare uses Pure for its EHR Application

Customer:

Unity Healthcare relies heavily on its Electronic Health Record (EHR) as well as many other patient management applications, all focused on improving patient care and operational efficiency. When the performance of Unity’s storage infrastructure started to impact medical staff productivity as well as back-office personnel, the IT staff investigated several flash based solutions in the market and choose to install Pure Storage all-flash arrays. Since then, Unity’s application performance has been trouble-free, and storage-related CAPEX and OPEX have been significantly reduced, and storage management has been dramatically simplified.

Challenges:

• Clinicians encountering unacceptably slow access times for key patient applications
• Size of database on previous SAN was consuming valuable space from other production applications
• Complex storage management over taxing a small IT staff/li>

Use Case:

• Database – Allscripts, Microsoft SQL Server
• VSI – VMware vSphere
• VDI – Horizon View
• Application Deployment – Citrix XenApp

Business Transformation:

• Physicians and back-office staff now have real-time access to the data and records they need to best serve patients.

IT Transformation:

• 7:1 data reduction from their EHR application
• Major reduction of unacceptable wait times for patient records