Case Study
Infrastructure in transition at Frankfurt University Hospital
The Data Infrastructure Software Company datacore.de The Authority on Software-Defined Storage THE CHALLENGE Infrastructure in transition at Frankfurt University Hospital With its 32 specialist clinics as well as more than 20 research institutes, the University Hospital Frankfurt is one of the leading university clinics in Germany. Every year, 51,000 inpatients and 227,000 outpatients receive the best possible medical care. More than 4,500 employees, including 1,300 doctors and scientists, as well as more than 1,100 nursing staff take care of the well-being of patients around the clock. In 2006, Frankfurt University Hospital undertook the broad-scale digitisation of image, lab and patient data. This required the installation of additional or new hardware infrastructure for the PACS.