StorageTek Helps Health Care Industry in Compliance Arena Keep a Pulse on Information Lifecycle Management Provides Health Care Enterprises With Powerful Image and Data Archival Technology That Can Be Readily Implemented, Supported and Integrated CHICAGO, RSNA, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The amount of digitally-stored patient information in health care enterprises is increasing at breakneck speed. This poses a daunting challenge to efficiently access and maintain this complex information while complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). StorageTek(R) (Storage Technology Corporation), the storage services and solutions expert, along with its best-in-class PACS partners, now offers a series of its Information Lifecycle Management(TM) reference architectures and solutions that provide the health care enterprise with powerful image and data archival technology. Reference architectures are specific standard configurations of StorageTek's solutions that operate in each Picture Archive Communication System (PACS) provider's environment. Each of the following Information Lifecycle Management solutions is tailored to meet the needs of the health care community: * Open Systems Archiving allows hospitals to automatically manage data movement across a tiered storage hierarchy. * Open Systems Data Protection provides hospitals with the ability to protect their business-critical data at all times. * Mainframe Archiving helps hospitals manage information cost efficiently across a tiered storage hierarchy in a mainframe environment. "The StorageTek Information Lifecycle Management strategy is all about enabling health care companies to store, retrieve and manage their tiered information in a cost-effective and efficient manner," said Bob Koecheler, StorageTek global vice president global partners and alliances. "Information has changing value over time. It must, however, be safeguarded from disaster and continually be available to appropriate users -- all this while health care institutions comply with HIPAA requirements for data. "As one of only a few companies to provide a full array of storage solutions across tape, disk, storage networking, software and services, StorageTek and its PACS partners are well equipped to enable health care providers to take charge of their information so they can focus on their core business," added Koecheler. These architectures provide health care enterprises with the structure they need to use data more efficiently; protect data appropriately; keep the right data over time based on legal, compliance and business continuance requirements; and maintain their service level agreements. Regardless of what storage infrastructure the health organization has in place, StorageTek's heterogeneous solutions can fit into their existing architecture -- saving them time, money and effort. StorageTek expects to introduce other reference architectures and solutions throughout 2004. For more information on StorageTek's Information Lifecycle Management strategy for healthcare, visit http://www.storagetek.com/healthcare. About StorageTek StorageTek, a $2 billion worldwide company with headquarters in Louisville, Colo., delivers a broad range of storage solutions that are easy to manage, integrate well with existing infrastructures and allow universal access to data across servers, media types and networks. StorageTek provides practical and safe storage solutions in disk, networking, services, tape and tape automation. For more information, see http://www.storagetek.com/ , or call 1.800.786.7835. TRADEMARKS: StorageTek and the StorageTek logo are registered trademarks and Information Lifecycle Management is a trademark of Storage Technology Corporation. Other names mentioned may be trademarks of Storage Technology Corporation or other vendors/manufacturers. DATASOURCE: StorageTek CONTACT: Tom Kaser, Public Relations Manager, +1-303-661-4995, , or Bob Wientzen, Sr. Public Relations Manager, +1-303-661-4993, , both of StorageTek Web site: http://www.storagetek.com/healthcare Web site: http://www.storagetek.com/

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