Though hospitals and healthcare organizations aren’t necessarily seeing more patients, the amount of data from enterprise imaging departments has exponentially increased.
Hospitals produce 50 petabytes of data per year, according to the World Economic Forum and the amount of healthcare data will continue to grow: The compound annual growth rate for healthcare data by 2025 will be 36%. According to Forbes, EI data alone may account for up to 90% of overall storage consumption.
As patients live longer, and imaging technology advances, the amount of storage needed at healthcare organizations will continue to grow, says Mark Dobbs, senior healthcare strategic alliances manager at Pure Storage.
“You have a big storm of data to manage over long periods of time, and physicians review both current and historical imaging studies with each patient, which then drives more data access,” Dobbs says. “When we converted from 2D to 3D mammography, for example, we went from 50MB per study average to over 1GB per study average, and radiologists may view more than 10 studies per patient.”
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