Pure Storage announced that Halifax Health chose Pure to optimize clinical workflows and to deliver high availability of mission-critical applications - including its MEDITECH electronic health record (EHR) system. This will enable its staff to ensure care continuity and better optimize patient outcomes. A trailblazer, Halifax Health, which provides a continuum of healthcare services through a network of organizations with facilities including a tertiary hospital, two community hospitals, a cancer treatment center with five outreach locations, the area's largest hospice and a center for inpatient rehabilitation, was the first healthcare organization to cluster MEDITECH using Windows failover clustering. Halifax Health became the driving force behind MEDITECH's current high availability solution, which is now installed in over half of MEDITECH organizations. Clustering not only ensured greater availability of the MEDITECH EHR system and other apps, but also improved Halifax Health's disaster recovery and rapid restore capabilities in the face of natural disasters and prepared the IT team to launch new apps quickly amid COVID-19. Even with these measures in place, Halifax Health faced a trio of challenges – availability, performance and security of mission-critical systems, while doing so cost-effectively. In addition, due to its location in Florida, Halifax Health must be able to stay up and running during tropical storms and hurricanes. Medical staff need immediate access to clinical apps and health information whenever they need it, and rely on IT to do so.