Montefiore Medical Center's IT subsidiary, Emerging Health Information Technology, has signed a multi-year hosting agreement with the North Shore-LIJ Health System to provide support for a portion of North Shore's computer network.
The largest healthcare provider in New York, North Shore-LIJ's network includes 15 hospitals, 17 long-term care facilities, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, three trauma centers, five home health agencies, a hospice network and dozens of outpatient centers across Queens, Long Island and Staten Island.
"Emerging Health is proud to be collaborating with North Shore-LIJ to help them consolidate and cut costs related to running multiple data centers," said Jack Wolf, Emerging Health's president and chief executive officer. "For North Shore-LIJ, hosting delivers real economic benefits. In addition, we have already discovered many synergies in our organizations and believe we possess skills and resources that will be beneficial to each other."
"High availability, reliability and security are the critical factors when choosing a data center, and Emerging Health meets our needs in all three categories," said John Bosco, chief information officer for North Shore-LIJ. "Their entire operation and organization is specifically designed to support healthcare delivery systems. Emerging Health will be an important part of our disaster recovery and off-site data replication plans and we are confident that they will serve our current and future needs."
Montefiore Medical Center built Emerging Health's Data Management Center in 2002. The center boasts multiple levels of power redundancy, including diesel generators, best-of-breed UPS systems and PDUs (power distribution units) to ensure uninterrupted power supply in the event of a sustained power failure.
It features precision air-conditioning systems that monitor and regulate the ambient temperature and relative humidity of the environment as well as raised flooring, fire detection and water-sensing technology.
To ensure security at the DMC, multiple levels of physical and electronic surveillance are available, including closed-circuit TV, security personnel and access card readers. The center will be expanded to include the latest high-density server technology, Wolf said.
