The healthcare provider intends to build a responsive IT infrastructure for faster diagnosis and shorter response times, easing the process for patients and doctors. To accomplish the objective, Narayana Health deployed NetApp technology solutions to develop a patient management system that can store and process patient records. The resulting system Athma can capture, store, and retrieve networks across 15 sites to produce required information. The system enables medical staff and patients to access their entire medical history in a short duration of time, further enhancing the quality of healthcare services provided by Narayana.
Elaborating on the inculcation of technology to advance health services, Ramu Manjunath, Core Infrastructure Head, Narayana Health, said, “NetApp comes with a unique approach to data management. Storing data on NetApp is much faster compared to the other solution providers. It offered simple and easy infrastructure management solutions to our engineers. The whole shift to NetApp was fairly simple and seamless from implementation, architectural, and support standpoints. With Athma, patients have the complete continuity of their entire medical history. Their history is available in our system and can be pulled in a few seconds, so the doctors can review and take a call rather than going back and forth finding records or reinvesting in investigations.”
The collaboration aims to optimize storage and data management efficiencies across locations thereby helping advance medical care in India. The centralized storage system for data and applications Athma is built on NetApp and is made available on the cloud. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP software makes the data stored easy to manage. Two fully replicated data centers, one in central India and the other in south India, are running backup and recovery using Azure NetApp Files and NetApp file services. The system provides clinical staff with critical and timely insights that further enable them to extend better care to patients.
Speaking about the positive impact that the collaboration aims to bring, Puneet Gupta, managing director & VP India/SAARC, NetApp India Marketing and Services, said, “Simplicity is at the core of everything we do at NetApp. Our solutions are designed to be easy to implement as well as scalable. For the new-age medical care providers, accessibility to data and healthcare records is of prime importance today. With our legacy and experience in data management, and our core technology offerings, we are happy to contribute to the changing healthcare landscape in India. It’s an accomplishment to see our solutions directly enable medical practitioners to offer better medical care to the needy.”
The Narayana Health hospital system has plans to increase the number of locations and add more clinical services in 60-plus specialties. with the assistance of NetApp. Cloud Volumes ONTAP will provide tools such as the NetApp Active IQ® Digital Advisor to help the hospital in managing and optimizing costs.