The Indonesian healthcare industry is undergoing a rapid digital transformation. The connected healthcare market is projected to grow from USD 0.88 billion in 2025 to USD 3.06 billion by 2030, with an annual growth rate exceeding 28 percent. This expansion is driven by increased hospital spending, rising demand for online healthcare services, and government initiatives aimed at strengthening the healthtech ecosystem.
This momentum is also reflected in the surge of digital health startups, ranging from e-pharmacy and telemedicine platforms to the adoption of AI and IoT. Yet, behind this growth lies a pressing infrastructure challenge: many hospitals still struggle to fully implement electronic medical records (EMR).
At this point, storage becomes a critical foundation. The explosion of data from EMRs, large medical images such as MRIs or CT scans, and AI-powered applications requires a storage system that is fast, reliable, and secure. Without robust storage, digitalization risks becoming a burden, hindering both operational efficiency and the quality of patient care.
By adopting modern solutions like NVMe, healthcare institutions can ensure that every piece of medical data is accessible in real time, enabling faster diagnostics, more accurate decisions, and better patient experiences.
What is NVMe and How Does It Differ from Traditional SSDs?
NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is a modern storage protocol designed to maximize the performance of flash-based media through the PCIe interface. Unlike legacy protocols such as SATA or SAS, which were originally built for hard drives, NVMe enables parallel data access with significantly lower latency.
The performance difference is substantial. NVMe supports thousands of data queues, while SATA offers only one. This translates into much higher read/write speeds and greater efficiency in handling large workloads.
Another advantage is scalability. NVMe remains efficient as data volumes grow, while SATA- or SAS-based SSDs are more prone to bottlenecks under increasing demands.
In short, NVMe is not just a faster SSD. It is a modern storage solution purpose-built to meet today’s data-intensive needs, making it especially relevant for the digital healthcare ecosystem.
How Does NVMe Work?
As noted earlier, NVMe leverages the PCI Express (PCIe) interface to connect storage media directly to the CPU, eliminating the limitations of older architectures like SATA and SAS. Its performance advantage comes from several key principles:
- Parallel Command Queues: NVMe supports thousands of simultaneous command queues, enabling data to be processed in parallel without bottlenecks.
- Low-Latency Access: With more direct communication paths, data access is faster and more efficient.
- Flash-Optimized Design: Unlike legacy protocols retrofitted for new hardware, NVMe was purpose-built for NAND flash and modern storage technologies.
These capabilities make NVMe an ideal foundation for real-time data workloads, including medical imaging and electronic health records (EHR) systems.
Why NVMe Matters for Hospitals
For healthcare providers, data speed is more than an IT concern; it directly affects patient outcomes. NVMe delivers significant advantages, especially in accelerating clinical diagnosis.
Large medical images such as MRIs or CT scans can be retrieved and processed much faster, allowing doctors to make clinical decisions more quickly and accurately. As a result, patients receive more responsive care.
The benefits extend further with AI-driven applications. Whether analyzing medical images or supporting predictive healthcare models, these workloads demand high throughput. NVMe provides the storage backbone required to handle such intensive processing reliably.
By adopting NVMe, hospitals can scale their infrastructure to accommodate the continuous growth of medical data, consolidate storage more effectively, and ensure consistent, stable performance.
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How NVMe Fuels Innovation Across Industries
While healthcare is a clear beneficiary, the impact of NVMe extends far beyond hospitals. Its ability to deliver ultra-fast, low-latency data access is transforming multiple industries:
- Finance: Digital banking and real-time analytics require high-speed data access to ensure both accuracy and security in transactions.
- Manufacturing: Industrial IoT (IIoT) and automation systems depend on low-latency storage to keep machines and sensors running seamlessly.
- Media & Entertainment: High-resolution video production and streaming demand massive performance. NVMe accelerates editing, rendering, and content distribution workflows.
- Retail & E-Commerce: Transaction data, customer behavior insights, and AI-driven recommendations run faster and more efficiently with NVMe.
NetApp NVMe: Next-Generation Data Storage
NetApp offers NVMe solutions designed to support high-performance workloads across diverse industries, including healthcare. Through NetApp ONTAP, organizations can adopt NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) without complexity.
Fibre Channel has long been trusted for its reliability and performance. With ONTAP, NVMe/FC can run alongside traditional FCP traffic on the same fabric, enabling a smooth transition without disruption. Critical workloads such as databases have already demonstrated faster performance on NVMe/FC compared to FCP.
NetApp goes further by pioneering end-to-end NVMe/FC and expanding support to NVMe/TCP, making it the only major vendor to deliver both technologies. These capabilities are available through NetApp AFF A-Series systems, providing a robust, high-performance foundation while supporting customers’ hybrid cloud strategies.
Why NetApp is the Right Choice for Modern Data Storage
Choosing NetApp means gaining more than just storage technology. It is about securing a platform that accelerates digital transformation across healthcare and other industries. Here are three key reasons why organizations turn to NetApp.
Seamless Adoption
With NetApp ONTAP, transitioning to NVMe does not require overhauling existing Fibre Channel infrastructure. Upgrades can be carried out non-disruptively, ensuring operations remain uninterrupted.
Performance for Critical Applications
From databases to advanced medical imaging, NetApp AFF A-Series systems deliver consistent high performance. This ensures real-time responsiveness in hospital environments and other mission-critical settings.
Hybrid Cloud Readiness
NetApp provides more than on-premises strength. Its solutions create a solid foundation for hybrid cloud integration, an increasingly essential strategy for modern healthcare providers.
By combining innovation, performance, and easy integration, NetApp positions itself as a strategic partner enabling hospitals and organizations to deliver faster, safer, and more sustainable services.
Strengthen Your Healthcare Data Infrastructure with MBT
As part of the CTI Group, Mega Buana Teknologi (MBT) supports healthcare digital transformation through modern NVMe-based storage solutions powered by NetApp. With high performance, low latency, and full hybrid cloud support, MBT offers end-to-end services, from consultation and architecture design to secure, scalable implementation.
Now is the time for hospitals and healthcare institutions to build a faster, more efficient, and reliable data foundation to enhance patient care.
Contact MBT today and start building a healthcare infrastructure ready to meet future demands.
Author: Wilsa Azmalia Putri – Content Writer CTI Group
