Commvault Systems and Laitek, a US provider of rapid data migration and storage services for picture archiving and communication system (PACS) replacements, announced a multi-faceted, strategic partnership to jointly develop and market clinical data management solutions.

Commvault has also made a strategic investment in Laitek. Hospitals are facing increasing pressures to modernize medical imaging and patient record systems, while driving down the costs of data storage and information technology to increase collaboration and drive better patient outcomes.

Electronic medical data is exploding in volume due to recent increases in the number of people with access to affordable healthcare and widespread shifts in the industry to make all patient information electronic, creating massive challenges for the retention, protection and efficient, secure recovery of patient data, images and records.

The new partnership between Commvault and Laitek is aimed specifically at meeting the unique challenges faced by healthcare systems seeking enterprise-wide deployments of data management systems that provide secure, PACS-neutral data, free from vendor dependence, and long term accessibility.

"Healthcare providers are looking beyond retiring legacy systems – increasingly they want a comprehensive approach to data management that supports a varied and changing mix of clinical applications systems," said Fred M. Behlen, Ph.D., Founder and President, Laitek.

"Together the combination of Laitek and Commvault will enable hospital systems to address enterprise data management needs quickly and safely. Our years of experience in the PACS data migration space, combined with Commvault's complementary capabilities in data protection, will create powerful solutions that meet the data management requirements of today's healthcare providers."

Under a development and original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement, the two companies will deliver a separate, new, medical management solution built on Commvault's recently released data software platform that provides data management capabilities while leveraging Laitek's Semperdata platform for rapid, clean and cost effective data migration. The solution is expected to be delivered to the market in the first quarter of 2016.