KOM Networks has a long-standing and extensive presence in the healthcare and life sciences industries providing organizations a cost-effective way to archive and manage digital assets, while helping them reach and retain their HIPAA compliance obligations.
Major data management concerns for healthcare organizations include:
- Balancing the rapid growth in data storage demands with budget pressures
- The need to integrate multiple, disparate systems - HCIS, RIS and PACS, MIS, eMail and Sharepoint, etc.
- Meeting Patient privacy and HIPAA compliance issues
Our highly scalable, standards-based, protected storage solutions are designed to meet these challenges.
Over 1,000 healthcare sector installations
KOM Networks has become the leader in providing backend storage and archival software for healthcare stand-alone applications and integrated systems.
| Applications | Systems |
| EHR | HCIS | ||
| Echocardiograms | MIS | ||
| Mammography | RIS/PACS | ||
| MRI | LIS | ||
| PET-CT Imaging | Pharmacy | ||
| Ultrasound/Fetal Monitoring | Specialty Information Systems |
Meeting Regulatory Compliance
KOM Networks' early experience in meeting customer IT needs helped develop compliance solutions even before the publication of regulations such as HIPAA or PIPEDA. KOMpliance enforces data retention and privacy policies while providing transparent data accessibility for users and applications.
Security & Protection
- Absolute protection from change or deletion of archived patient data using our patented e-WORM HDD WORM technology.
- AES-256 encryption protects privacy of patient data, confidential documents and email.
- SHA-256 digital signature for data authentication.
- Customization of policies for individual file groups.
- Retention policies are automatically enforced.
- Retention periods can be extended but never removed or shortened.
- Secure Data shredding means that information in deleted files is truly gone and can never be misused.
Easy Integration & High Performance
- Proven compatibility with RIS and PACS and HIS systems from most major vendors.
- Open standards and protocols use simplifies integration with existing systems.
- High-performance archiving and retrieval rates keep up with the heaviest workloads.
Flexible & Cost Efficient
- Appliance form factor supports rapid installation and setup.
- Vendor agnostic (non-proprietary) connectors reduce costs and prevent vendor lockin.
- Leverage existing FC / iSCSI SAN resources or add new NAS storage.
- Windows Server OS leverages in-house IT expertise, supports Active Directory groups and policies and is compatible with the Windows application ecosystem.
- Multiple Storage Server and Gateway configurations.
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity options available.
- Storage capacities start at only 1TB and can scale to 500PB.
You Can Always Count On Us
KOM’s expertise in enterprise archive storage for healthcare and life sciences spans 4 decades. Our healthcare partners trust us to have a comprehensive understanding of their unique compliance and information management challenges and an unwavering commitment to ensuring that they meet those challenges.
