Cantabria moves its medical image storage system to AWS
The Cantabrian Health Service (SCS) has entrusted Costaisa with the migration of part of its medical image storage system to the AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud, which will allow for fast and secure access to medical image results from any geographical location, thus facilitating collaboration between healthcare professionals to review and discuss cases remotely.
The SCS wanted to have a valid alternative to the current on-premise storage system and a partial transfer of the current occupation, by incorporating digital image data from both radiology and pathological anatomy. The selected solution is mainly made up of services that allow medical images in DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) format to be stored and retrieved, securely expanding local storage capacity.
Security and regulatory compliance have been key factors in choosing AWS cloud technology and Costaisa's integration capabilities. AWS offers high security standards such as data encryption, two-factor authentication and auditing systems, to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of medical information, complying with international regulations such as HIPAA.
The migration of the PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) to the cloud will make it possible to reduce the operating costs associated with the maintenance of local infrastructures, both in hardware and in the associated maintenance services, in addition to guaranteeing business resilience and continuity, since the cloud services that will be configured are of maximum availability to minimize the risk of data loss or interruptions in access to medical images. An immediate recovery system is planned and two types of access will be enabled, one direct via gateway and another deep access for historical data.
In addition, the AWS cloud will provide a capacity to scale in an agile and flexible way, which is key to being able to evolve the environment optimally according to the data storage and processing needs required by the SCS, increasing or decreasing resource consumption as needed and paying only for what is used.