The easy and affordable way to improve healthcare IT
How memory and SSDs speed up medical apps and enhance data security for less
Healthcare relies on technology more than ever before, which is why it’s critical to ensure the systems that help coordinate and deliver care run efficiently. From hospitals to small practices, every healthcare function – from primary care to medical records, specialists, emergency medicine, imaging, administration, human resources, and more – requires fast system performance and stringent data security. This is particularly important because in order to comply with the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Affordable Care Act, medical data must be stored securely to protect privacy and patient confidentiality. Memory and SSDs deliver faster performance and stronger security to improve healthcare delivery across your organization for significantly less than the cost of new systems. Here’s how.
The benefits of adding more memory and SSDs to laptops and desktops
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Comply with HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act |
Encrypting and protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) starts where the data is stored – on the storage drive |
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Secure ePHI including electronic medical records |
Best-in-class AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption is significantly more secure than what’s on hard drives |
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Speed up chronically slow medical apps used for imaging, billing, surgery, etc. |
These apps require massive amounts of RAM and fast storage due to large file sizes and increased data needs |
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Accelerate general administrative and office performance |
SSDs multiply productivity by allowing you to work 6x faster than with hard drives – serve more patients and cut time spent on everyday tasks |
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Reduce organizational liability |
Encryption helps safeguard confidential information and prevent lawsuits that can occur if a laptop is lost, hacked, or misused |
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Upgrade with ease |
Installing RAM and SSDs only takes a matter of minutes, which greatly reduces the amount of downtime it takes to upgrade IT systems |
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Often costs nearly 10x less than buying new computers1 |
Upgrading components allows you to extend the life of old systems and get more out of your IT budget |
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The benefits of adding more memory and SSDs to servers
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Run day-to-day operations faster |
Servers power email, file sharing, collaboration, analysis, billing, imaging, and nearly everything in the medical world. Improving system components benefits server performance and makes computing more seamless. |
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Optimize virtualization today and tomorrow |
More memory means more VMs per physical server, better QoS (quality of service), reduced disk thrash, and improved ability to keep up with growing workloads of the future |
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Reduce the residual effect of boot storms |
Access data seamlessly even when many users log on to your systems at the same time with SSDs |
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Improve Big Data and healthcare analytics |
73% of IT managers surveyed use more than 64GB of RAM for Big Data and healthcare analytics, and many use at least 128GB2 |
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Improve long-term system performance without draining your IT budget |
Installing more RAM and SSDs limits downtime and is an upgrade that benefits you as long as the server is in use |
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Why memory and SSDs enhance performance for less
Laptops and servers – the backbone of healthcare IT – both benefit from more RAM and SSDs. More memory is one of the most effective and affordable ways to enhance system speed, responsiveness, and longevity because memory is the resource systems use to multitask and run data-intensive medical applications. SSDs complement memory and reduce the time it takes to boot up, load apps, save documents, and transfer large files, which are particularly common in healthcare.
Why SSDs enhance security
Compared to what’s commonly used in healthcare – hard drives – SSDs deliver hardware-based encryption that uniquely removes the security gaps and slow speeds that are inherent with software-based encryption found in hard drives.
The bottom line: Improve healthcare by improving the systems used to deliver it
Time is more important in healthcare than perhaps any other industry because lives are on the line. Days, hours, and minutes are extremely valuable but they can’t be regained once they’re lost. In the same way, the sensitivity of medical data may cause irreparable damage if a data breach occurs. Enhance performance, security, and your IT budget with Crucial® memory and SSDs, and provide patients with a more seamless healthcare experience.
2. Data from March 2016 survey of 353 IT decision-makers in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and France, with respondents split evenly by region. To qualify for the survey, IT pros had to have influence over the purchase process, be using virtualization software, and have at least 30 physical servers. Survey conducted by Spiceworks.
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