Mediclinic Selects Hitachi Clinical Repository for Connected Health as the Foundation for Its Unified Electronic Patient Record System

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - May 28, 2015) - Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced that Mediclinic Southern Africa has deployed Hitachi Clinical Repository (HCR) for connected health as the foundation for its centralized electronic patient record (EPR) system. The new HCR solution was recently announced at the company's Connect 2015 conference in Las Vegas last month, together with other new advancements in its Social Innovation solutions and services portfolio, including Hitachi Live Insight for IT Operations, Hitachi Live Insight Center of Excellence, and updates to its solutions for the public safety and telecommunications markets. Through its Social Innovation initiative, Hitachi Data Systems is realizing its mission to bring real-world solutions to market that deliver on the promise of the Internet of Things that matter.

Mediclinic Southern Africa is a private hospital group operating in South Africa and Namibia that provides acute care, specialist-oriented, multidisciplinary hospital services and other related offerings. The organization wanted to build a connected health environment that could unify patient data from across its more than 50 locations into a single, unified database, but had struggled with the lack of integration between its medical information systems. For Mediclinic, the project's primary objective was to build a secure information infrastructure and centralized file repository that would result in improved physician access to health records and support better outcomes and reduce healthcare costs for its patients. For its vendor-neutral archive, Mediclinic selected Hitachi Data Systems' HCR solution, which uniquely unifies data from disparate EPR technologies into a single, holistic view. 

HCR for connected health uses Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) technology to form a multipurpose archive that enables all clinical and nonclinical data to be stored, backed up, preserved and retrieved on a single platform. By aggregating data from previously siloed applications and making it shareable across multiple caregivers, HCR for connected health provides healthcare providers with direct access to a patient's entire medical record, regardless of their location.