The fall of 2007 found Dranetz Technologies partnering on a number of high-profile projects in California, including one of the country’s leading health-care organizations. Having recently embarked on an ambitious energy-saving and efficiency-optimization program in data centers around the U.S., the provider deemed one particular 120,000 square-foot location (figure 1) in Riverside County, CA, to be especially critical to the reliable operation of the company’s entire health-care network.
A by-product of going paperless-a process undertaken for many operational reasons-resulted in the provider also becoming a more environmentally conscious health-care supplier. In operation, the organization’s paperless mandate requires critical power management of many elements, including patient records, patient insurance documentation, medical records, MRI scans, laboratory test results, and access to any of this information on a 24/7 basis by surgeons, doctors, other health care staff, and even patients.