HOSPITALS
Meet
today ’ s Iron Mountain
“ I ’ m interested in how technology improves the way services are delivered and improves outcomes for patients ”
SIMON MCNAIR DIRECTOR , PUBLIC SECTOR SALES , IRON MOUNTAIN EMEA
that enable healthcare professionals to simultaneously access records . This is all about access to information in the format they need it , when they need it .”
Digital transformation can be a real balancing act and for McNair , the key words are accessibility and security . The real work is finding balance in between .
“ You ' re creating content to add to the already massive and continuously growing volume of digital healthcare information and hospital data – it ’ s just growing at just such a rapid rate . So that ' s a definite challenge , in terms of ‘ how do we manage it in a very secure way ?’”
For Iron Mountain , there are many different data formats that form part of a digital health record ; managing them all is both a challenge and an opportunity .
“ Finding a balance between the growing volume of data , the technological changes and improvements , and managing it
40 July 2022