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Data center designed for support of HIE: fiber-optic cabling infrastructure and total network redundancy will allow Erickson Retirement Corp. to add more capacity for support of electronic medical records.

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More than 25 years ago, John Erickson formed Erickson Retirement Corp. in Baltimore County, Md., to provide improved residences and better-quality services for the elderly. Today, the company includes 20 communities in 12 states that are home to more than 22,000 residents. The next step in that growth was to create an information exchange between healthcare institutions throughout the state, including a state-of-the-art data center that would support the creation of a state health information exchange system. "Before being able to support a statewide electronic medical information exchange, we had to deal with Erickson's own rapidly growing data needs," says Jeff Bathurst, chief technology officer for Erickson.

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Even though each community has its own network and servers to store information and records, each was tied to the corporate system at the Charlestown campus in Catonsville, Md., which was at capacity. "If we were going to add more capacity to support our business and eventually host electronic medical records for key hospital organizations for...

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