by Maryna Frolova, PR Specialist, Dell Storage — March 11, 2010
Last week, healthcare IT professionals from around the world gathered in Atlanta, Georgia for HIMSS10, the world’s largest and most respected IT exhibitions for healthcare organizations. Attendees were looking for ways to manage their IT, while meeting regulatory compliance requirements and digitizing medical records and patient information. Electronic medical records (EMR), electronic health records (EHR) and picture archiving communication systems (PACS) were the talk of the show.
When healthcare companies embark on EMR, EHR and PACS projects, they need data storage that will grow with them over time. At the Compellent booth, I heard a director of IT passionately exclaim that he is “sick and tired of forklift upgrades.” He wants a system that would be scalable and will not leave him with an enormous rip-and-replace bill every time they outgrow their storage capacity. This is just one of the many candid comments that we heard during the show.
In fact, a number of past Compellent customers stopped by the booth to tell us how much they miss their Compellent systems now that their new employer does not have a Compellent system. Some had plans to introduce Compellent into their environments, for others it was too early to tell, but it was great to have them visit.
Those who currently have a Compellent system did not hold back in giving us feedback. Mark Manning from McKesson told us that Compellent does not do enough promotion around the system’s performance and outstanding support services. McKesson has seen system performance improvements and found a way to verify significant cost savings associated with running a Compellent system as opposed to other storage vendors.
All in all, it was nice to hear about the success our healthcare customers were having with their storage. Steve Melcher, IT Director of Lincoln Surgical Hospital in Nebraska, talked to us about his disaster recovery project based on Compellent Fluid Data storage. Check out the video below.
Overall, this was a big show and the who’s who of healthcare IT vendors were all in attendance. Back for the second time, this was the first time that Compellent was exhibiting in the new Fluid Data booth. What do you think? A couple people actually stopped and commented on how much they liked the booth. We’re looking forward to HIMSS11!
by Maryna Frolova, PR Specialist, Dell Storage — February 25, 2010
Training is an important part of familiarizing yourself with a new data storage system. Compellent hosts training sessions almost every week for our customers, partners and new employees. Last week, I had a chance to sit down with Jim Wegner from Synergy Medical Education Alliance to talk about his new Compellent SAN and the training session that he was attending at Compellent headquarters. Listen to Mr. Wegner talk about his virtualization project, as well as why he is enjoying his training course.
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Next week, I will be traveling to Atlanta to attend one of the biggest healthcare IT trade shows, HIMSS10, to talk to our healthcare customers and healthcare experts about what’s on their mind for healthcare IT and storage issues for the industry in 2010. If you are planning on attending the show, please visit us in booth #8741. Stay tuned for more videos from the show floor. Follow me @MarineroF for news and updates from HIMSS10. |
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