New Hospitals Invest In State-of-the-Art Data Centers
Silver Cross Hospital's recently opened data center puts it at the forefront of an emerging healthcare trend: Combining construction of new hospitals with new data centers to offer the latest in technology and accommodate an explosion in applications and patient data—not just documents, but images and videos.
With the February, 2012 opening of its 600,000 sq ft, $370 million medical complex with outpatient center, medical service building, and hospital, the New Lenox IL, community hospital needed to update and expand its aging data resources, which were already operating at capacity. With its new 2,450-sq-ft data center, 50 percent larger than its existing one, patients and staff are already enjoying the benefits of new technology.