The Liverpool Women's NHS Trust has improved its managed data services, eliminating unnecessary data and servers.
According to ComputerWorld, the trust has consolidated servers in order to reduce the number needed and the power used.
It claims power usage has dropped by 70 per cent and the volume of data has been cut by eight times in the past three years.
The trust said it wanted to make the system more efficient as it had become time consuming looking for managed data on the system. It added that centralising storage has made it easier to create duplicate copies, reports the website.
Dr Zafar Chaudry, director of information management at Liverpool's trust, told the website: "Our IT just wasn't performing. We had multiple copies of the same file digitally and on paper, there was a data sprawl and we had real problems accessing the right data at the right time."
In recent recommendations on data law changes which need to occur, from the Information Commissioner and the director of the Wellcome Trust, it was advised steps are followed on storing managed data as a matter of good practice, reports OutLaw.com.
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