Louisville, Colo. and West Berlin, New Jersey UltraRAD Corporation, a leading provider of fully integrated, scalable PACS and Teleradiology Systems, and Breece Hill, the premier provider of innovative data protection solutions, have successfully completed development of an all-in-one backup, recovery and archive appliance tuned to meet the specific data management and protection needs of small and medium-sized medical organizations, as well as departments or remote sites of large health care operations.

The integrated solution is based on Breece Hills unified disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) iStoRA backup and recovery appliance that utilizes industry standard components and UltraRADs UltraARCHIVE software that provides scalable levels of service on either a fee per Terabyte stored or a fee-per-procedure basis. UltraARCHIVE and iStoRA combine to provide a preconfigured system that is easy to own, manage and operate, and is a key component of a data retention plan fully compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard for medical images.

Breece Hills iStoRA architecture combines the speed of disk and the portability of tape to provide both local backup and archiving to removable media. Having both capabilities in one easy-to-use, network-ready appliance delivers fast restores in the case of minor data loss, and off-site archive of data for regulatory compliance and disaster recovery purposes.


All of us in the healthcare industry are required to provide DICOM compliant storage solutions that satisfy HIPAA requirements, from a small radiology practice to a huge healthcare institution,said Tom Goliash, President of UltraRAD. Unfortunately the complexity and cost of the technology requirements are historically prohibitive for all but large, centralized operations, but were proud to say this combination delivers the security requirements needed to meet DICOM archiving needs while meeting HIPAA guidelines in a cost effective model. The only thing left for the customer to do is decide where, and how long, to store their backup tapes.

Our successful integration with UltraRAD offers the best possible solution for the expanding data loads medical institutions are experiencing, particularly any operation dealing with sensitive patient files and very large digital image handling, said Robert Schaefer, CEO of Breece Hill.

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