Englewood Hospital And Medical Center Selects Iron Mountain To Host Its Data Center
The multi-year colocation agreement includes data center space in Iron Mountain’s Pittsburgh area data center.
Driven by the expansion of electronic records and regulatory pressures including Meaningful Use, ICD-10 and Accountable Care, the volume of data produced by the health care industry continues to grow, and health care organizations need cost-effective ways to manage that data. Iron Mountain® Incorporated has announced it has signed a multi-year data center colocation agreement with Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, an acute care teaching hospital affiliated with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Englewood, New Jersey. Englewood Hospital will lease data center space within Iron Mountain’s underground data center located near Pittsburgh.
With the addition of Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology, a new picture archiving and communication system (PACS), and a Vendor Neutral Archive, Englewood Hospital’s IT leadership recognized that the exploding data growth and resulting power density requirements created capacity challenges in the hospital’s existing internal data center. Furthermore, the hospital wanted to ensure that they were prepared and could recover quickly if struck by a disaster. In order to address capacity constraints and faster Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), the hospital’s IT leadership decided to partner with Iron Mountain for a second data center location.