Many hospitals and health systems are reaching a tipping point as they struggle to store, organize and leverage an exponentially increasing volume of data.

Traditional storage architectures, originally built for limited, structured data sets, are straining under the avalanche of data accumulated by electronic health records, wearable sensors, remote monitoring devices and medical imaging.

Chris Platt, chief technologist for healthcare life sciences at HPE, explains that the issue isn’t just scale, it’s what providers can do with that data.

“We’re in a data explosion right now,” he says. “Healthcare organizations are under pressure to manage, store, protect and curate all of that data in meaningful ways.”

According to Platt, a midsized hospital network may now generate upward of 55 petabytes of data per year.

While most of that data goes unused after its immediate value expires, it’s becoming increasingly relevant for long-term initiatives such as AI model training and real-time clinical decision support.

The challenge, Platt says, is making the data usable — quickly, securely and at scale.

DISCOVER: HPE helps healthcare organizations connect, protect, analyze and act on their your data.