EMC SOLUTIONS TO OPTIMIZE
EHR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EPIC
ESSENTIALS
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Reduce overall storage costs with
automated tiering and volume
provisioning
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Encrypt data at rest with no
performance penalty
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TRANSFORM YOUR EPIC EHR ENVIRONMENT
Deploying an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is inherently one of the most important
choices, and it is often the largest single investment a healthcare organization will ever
make. Healthcare organizations of all sizes are making Epic their EHR of choice
because of it’s unique ability to provide a “single view” of the patient, and foundation
for evidence-based-decision support, quality management, and outcomes reporting.
Epic brings transformation to the business and unique requirements for the
Mitigate project risk with the
infrastructure. The Epic decision also brings an opportunity to transform IT, beginning
proven leader, over 60% of Epic
with an optimized EHR infrastructure that provides the high performance and
customers run on EMC storage
availability demanded by all of today’s mission critical applications.
Improve read performance
It is equally important that the IT infrastructure supporting your Epic environment
dramatically with SSDs
meets the clinical demands of and keeps your organization in “Epic Good Maintenance”
Backup and restore Epic and all
at the lowest possible Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). To do this you need an IT
other critical apps with a unified,
infrastructure that can manage, backup and restore not only your Epic environment,
automated process
but also the other critical applications that contribute to the whole episode of care.
Cut your backup windows by up
EMC® works closely with Epic to deliver lab-tested, Epic-validated solutions that speed
to 90 percent
performance, simplify management, enhance data protection and increase productivity.
Reduce backup storage
EMC understands the IT needs of the healthcare enterprise. We will bring our expertise
requirements with greater than
and extensive experience with Epic to help you confidently deploy this mission critical
95% deduplication rates
application, delivering faster time-to-value and enabling the highest levels of service
and availability to your caregivers and staff.
INNOVATIVE STORAGE PLATFORMS AND
TOOLS
EMC industry-leading storage platforms deliver the high performance and reliability
required to support the intensive I/O workloads characteristic of an Epic environment.
EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage systems leverage a comprehensive range of
powerful, trusted and smart storage solutions currently support more Epic production
environments than any other storage platform. VMAX comes with built-in support for
external servers using RSA® Data Protection Manager for the Symmetrix VMAX D@RE
(data-at-rest encryption). This includes key management for maximum flexibility in
securing data at the drive-level, both capabilities helpful in addressing HIPAA and
HITECH regulations.
VMAX provides the foundation for six 9s of high availability and resiliency that Epic EHR
environments demand. VMAX also enables the consolidation of front-end global
memory and back-end functions, enabling direct memory access to data for optimized
SERVICE OVERVIEW
I/O operations. This is an ideal design for the Epic production environment and its
80-second write cycle. Dynamic cache partitioning for VMAX allows Epic users to
prioritize I/O’s so the production database delivers a consistent performance.
EMC VNX Unified Storage — Combines powerful and flexible hardware with
advanced efficiency, 5-9’s of availability, plus management and protection software
to meet the needs of even the most demanding EHR and medical imaging
environments. The VNX series has been expressly designed to take advantage
of the latest innovations in Flash drive technology to deliver sub-millisecond reads.
VNX storage platforms enable your healthcare organization to grow, share, and
cost-effectively manage multi-protocol file systems and multi-protocol block
storage access.
VblockTM Systems from VCE provide enterprise-class IT infrastructure for VDI
Always On Point of CareTM solution rollouts. Tight integration with VMware operating
system and your Epic application this solution provides the response times, security,
availability, and agility you need to manage your desktop environment. You get
non-stop access to clinical desktops and your Epic EHR, constant monitoring, load
balancing and data replication to optimize performance and uptime.
Enterprise Reference Architecture
SUPERCHARGE YOUR EPIC PERFORMANCE
Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) moves active data to highperformance storage tiers and inactive data to low-cost, high-capacity storage tiers,
automatically optimizing performance in a tiered storage environment for Epic EHR.
Reducing costs, footprint and management effort, FAST VP delivers automation and
efficiency to your virtual data center to put the right data in the right place at the right
time. It also maximizes utilization of Flash Drive capacity for high IOPS workloads and
delivers single and sub-millisecond response times for “reads.”
VFCache extends FAST into the server, adding another tier of intelligence and
EPIC CUSTOMER
BACKUP EXAMPLE
performance to the I/O stack and eliminating the “I/O gap” where your application
Six TB of Epic Cache with full
your Epic application to the data store. With both FAST and VFCache technologies,
back up in less than 5 hours
EMC provides an end-to-end tiering solution to optimize Epic capacity and performance
every day
from the server to the storage.
Backup Epic every 30 minutes for
PROTECTING PATIENT INFORMATION
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better RPO
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90.3% less Oracle backup data
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Achieved 38:1 overall dedupe
ratio for Epic
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server has capacity to process more I/O than your disk drives can deliver. When
coupled with FAST, VFCache creates the most efficient and intelligent I/O path from
EMC offers Epic users a number of replication choices that help protect your critical
patient information by maintaining smooth, continuous operations and the ability to
restart quickly in the event of an unplanned outage.
By deploying EMC Avamar® and EMC Data Domain®, backup and deduplication systems
31TB Daily Backup with
and Data Domain Boost® software you can securely backup and recover across your
deduplication written to .23 TB of
entire healthcare enterprise, reaching beyond your Epic and address support for the
capacity from all data sources.
entire enterprise including support for virtualized environments, remote physician
offices, and data center LANs.
Full backups made easy – EMC Avamar utilizes “change block tracking” to know
exactly what has changed since the last backup and to update only those blocks of
data. Epic users deploying Avamar and Data Domain generally experience greater than
95 percent deduplication rates and 75% reduction in the time required to backup the
Epic environment all with data integrity. These performance improvements rates also
reduce the overall backup storage capacity and the bandwidth required for backups,
lowering the TCO of your Epic backup environment.
Restore your Epic environment fast – Backups are important, but fast recovery
from an outage is essential. With EMC’s Backup and Recovery Solutions for Epic, full
backups can be recovered in just one step, no need to deal with restoring a full backup
and then dealing with subsequent incremental backups. The change block tracking
mentioned for backing up Epic works “in reverse” for file level data recovery to the
original location, to a new location, or to a “net new” virtual machine, dramatically
shrinking your time-to-recovery. EMC provides a “fully-hydrated” copy of data for quick
restore. All of these EMC replication products have been tested with Epic to support
your business continuity strategies.
Continuous Operations, Mobility, Availability – EMC VPLEX resides between your
servers and heterogeneous storage assets, making your IT infrastructure more
resilient, while complimenting Epic’s best practices for disaster recovery. Federated
Access Anywhere
TM
, available with VPLEX, enables a single copy of your data to be
shared, accessed, and relocated over distance. This allows transparent load sharing
between multiple sites, and the flexibility of relocating workloads between sites to
manage peak periods of activity. Also, in the event of a disruption at one data center,
the failed services can be restarted at the surviving site, minimizing time-to-recovery.
“Since deploying Avamar, we’ve more than doubled the volume
of our backup data and still stay within our backup window.
We’re now able to complete daily full backups compared to
monthy full backups and daily incrementals before.”
Willy Schley, Technology Development Manager
Ochsner Health System
MITIGATED RISK AND PREDICTABLE RESULTS
Epic’s largest customer environments trust EMC experience, superior storage
technology, management tools, and innovative Epic lab-tested solutions to mitigate
their risk and deliver the kind of predictable results their clinicians demand. An EMC
IT Infrastructure delivers fast access to the information your clinicians need to make
accurate diagnoses and care decisions. We have built a foundation of experience
form these successful Epic implementations and have created standardized processes
and services that deliver repeatable results. Working with EMC you can:
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Deliver highly resilient, reliable, high performance infrastructure
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Reduce overall storage costs with automated tiering and volume provisioning
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Improve read performance dramatically with SSDs
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Leverage more than 70 VMware integration points for your virtualized Epic
environment
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Cut backup windows up to 90 percent with de-duplication and automation
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Reduce the amount of data moved by up to 95%
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Simplify the management across a large and increasingly integrated set of
applications in a virtualized computing environment
CONTACT US
To learn more about how EMC
products, services, and solutions can
help solve your business and IT
challenges, contact your local
representative or authorized reseller—
or visit us at www.EMC.com .
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the United States and other countries. Vblock is a registered trademark of VCE. Epic is a
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