Efficient and future-proof protection of patient data

The number of objects that are archived annually at the University Hospital Tübingen is around seventy million and continually growing. In addition, doctors must be granted access to all patient data at any time and the data have to be archived audit-proof for at least 30 years. This means that malfunctions and failures of the archiving system are not acceptable. Thus, the hospital searched for a new system based on its specific requirements: Hardware-independent, flexible and scalable. At the same time, the system had to have the right certifications for archiving patient data.

The prior system was replaced by iCAS. Now, the software-based archiving solution operates as an additional data pool, which is linked to various applications in order to store the archive data. The archiving system d.3 is connected directly to iCAS via the certified interface. In addition to auditing reliability, iCAS offers the hospital further important benefits:

• Open interfaces enable connection to various systems
• Virtualization capability and easy scalability
• iCAS Self-Healing function checks data integrity and automatically replaces corrupted objects with valid backups
• Easy usability makes extensive training obsolete

With regard to the future of the archiving infrastructure, the hospital is looking forward with confidence to the coming years and expected technology changes.