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Revolutionizing Healthcare with Data

Modern healthcare is overflowing with data. It’s consuming a staggering 30% of the world’s data, and it’s growing at an…
By Aron Brand
August 8, 2023

Modern healthcare is overflowing with data. It’s consuming a staggering 30% of the world’s data, and it’s growing at an astronomical pace. While this wealth of information holds immense potential, it comes bundled with a unique set of challenges. At CTERA, we are proud to tackle these head-on and offer solutions that not only address these issues but also significantly enhance the healthcare landscape.

The Challenges: An Opportunity in Disguise

As we ventured into the world of healthcare data, we were met with a wide array of obstacles. The need to maintain strict patient confidentiality and privacy, ensuring regulatory compliance for protected healthcare information (PHI), and countering a constant barrage of cyber threats were just a few. But at CTERA, we see challenges as opportunities – opportunities to innovate, improve, and deliver value.

The CTERA Solution: Our Passion Materialized

Our passion and commitment to revolutionizing healthcare led us to develop CTERA’s global file system, a groundbreaking solution that facilitates efficient and compliant data sharing within and across healthcare organizations. This is a stark contrast to traditional SAN/NAS systems that are confined within the limits of a single data center.

Moreover, our platform employs AI-based ransomware protection, air-gapped snapshots, instant disaster recovery, and Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) capabilities, thereby offering an impregnable fortress of protection for crucial medical data. We’re immensely proud of our robust solution and the peace of mind it brings to healthcare providers worldwide.

Empowering Healthcare: Success Stories Close to Our Hearts

We’re particularly proud of our collaboration with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). By implementing CTERA’s platform, both these esteemed institutions experienced a complete transformation in their data management, privacy, and security operations.

The VA, one of our largest clients, serves over 9 million veterans through more than 1,200 facilities. They were grappling with managing a colossal data infrastructure, a challenge we eagerly helped overcome. We provided them with a solution that not only tackled their data security requirements but also allowed them to embark on an edge-to-cloud file services strategy. Their trust in our platform is a testament to our commitment and dedication.

Similarly, the DSHS, another prestigious partner, needed a shift from managing legacy Windows file servers across over 100 locations to a modern, IT-as-a-Service model. Their adoption of our platform significantly streamlined their IT operations and paved the way for a secure, cost-effective, and centrally managed IT delivery model.

The CTERA Advantage: A Leap Towards Modern Healthcare

We are fervently passionate about modernizing healthcare and are continually innovating to meet the sector’s evolving needs. Our offerings, including our Global File System, CTERA Edge Filers, CTERA Drive, and CTERA Portal, are the fruits of this passion. We have designed these solutions to bring about efficient management of unstructured patient data, enable secure file synchronization and sharing, and facilitate compliance with regulations such as HIPAA while maintaining cost efficiency.

The Future of Healthcare: A Vision

At CTERA, we see a future where healthcare data is collected in an unstructured data lake, and securely harnessed for improved patient outcomes. We envisage a healthcare sector that is not limited by data but empowered by it. With this vision in mind, we’re continuously striving to unlock the full potential of medical research and help deliver the very best in patient care.

Through our work, we have witnessed how data can transform healthcare, and we are committed to ensuring this transformation reaches every corner of the healthcare world. We are excited for what the future holds, and we look forward to continuing our work in this vital and rewarding industry. Join us in our journey to revolutionize healthcare, one data point at a time.

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