Cost-effective DICOM Archive System for smaller hospitals and orthopaedic clinics

For smaller hospitals and orthopaedic clinics

Not only is it estimated that an institution’s medical imaging files will triple in size every two years, but hospitals, clinics and imaging centres are also faced with an increasing number of regulatory requirements to keep more data for longer periods of time. It is critical that this stored information be protected and that health professionals be enabled, if and when required, to speedily and reliably retrieve the necessary information from the ever-increasing files. For smaller and medium-sized clinics and healthcare organisations that do not want to invest in very largescale installations, there is a cost-effective DICOM management system for the automation of routing, storing, retrieving, archiving and managing medical images and related patient data. The solution is a combination of software and hardware comprising DICOM-compliant software (RADInfo Systems),archiving software (XenData) and the iSToRA (Information Storage and Retrieval Architecture) hardware.The latter is an all-in-one appliance (server, disk and tape) that can be easily configured and quickly integrated within an organisation’s existing workflow. The pre-integrated hardware platform offers the speed advantage of disk and the long-term retention qualities of tape. The standard configuration (G3S) combines 2.0 TB RAID disk, a tape autoloader and a Windows or Linux server to provide a flexible and reliable solution for a wide variety of data storage and server applications. The G3X offers dual Xeon processors and 3.2 TB online disk storage and built-in, remote system monitoring and control function.