Winneshiek Medical Center will spend $200,000 on new equipment to back up its digital data

Winneshiek Medical Center Trustees have approved spending $200,000 on new equipment to back up the medical center's digital files.

The new "Storage Area Network" will consist of two units — one on-site at the hospital and a second off-site at Luther College.  The two units will replace three current units that have become antiquated, including one tape backup machine.

Winneshiek Medical Center spent $2.5 million in 2017 for new software from Epic--the same software system used at the University of Iowa Hospitals.  The patient record software went into operation in August of 2018.