Rush University Medical Center Protects Against Fire Loss

Information technology is driving more effective, lower-cost health care, and better patient outcomes at hospitals nationwide. Information in the form of patient records, diagnostic images, prescriptions, etc., as well as the need to handle and process data, is expanding exponentially. At Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, the capacity to handle this explosion of data has increased 20-fold over the last two decades, evidenced by the massive ongoing investment its administrators have made in data handling, storage, and network management technology during this period. This critical IT infrastructure, key to day-to-day hospital operations at every level, is managed at the hospital's data center erected in 1986 adjacent to the hospital campus west of the Loop in downtown Chicago.