Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

www.imperial.nhs.uk

As the Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital join St Mary’s Hospital and other institutions in the new Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

IT partners DCG Group are providing the specialist expertise in data storage and information availability with which they have supported the vital work of the hospitals in the past, ensuring that confidential patient data is accessible as needed to hospital staff for patient care.

Issues around secure storage of patient records and immediate access to data for clinicians are increasingly important for NHS Trusts committed to the highest standards of patient care and have been complicated by rapid growth in data volumes, with continuing requirements for increased storage capacity and effective backup.

"We used to measure our data in shared services in gigabytes but now we measure it in terabytes,” says Guido Giancoli, Project Support. “All this data needs managing, and backup is especially important so that data is secure in case of system breakdown.

The Result

"DCG’s ongoing support and professional services has been very important to us. DCG services help us to keep up to date with current demands for secure storage and backup."

"They also helped us to develop an improved disaster recovery dimension to our data backup, so that we had secure systems for managing data in case of any emergency. We built a good working relationship with DCG and came to trust their expertise in data storage and backup."

The Approach

DCG have earned Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust’s confidence through their specialist expertise in data management and information availability, their independent approach and responsiveness to the NHS environment. As the importance of IT in healthcare has increased and data volumes have grown, DCG are partnering with many Trusts to help with important projects and services.

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