While the debate over single versus multidepartment archives continues, there are important considerations for facilities planning to implement or expand an information technology (IT) infrastructure. According to Scott Cleare, SMB infrastructure sales manager, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences, facilities must evaluate their infrastructure and examine the reasons for change. “Often within healthcare, a change in infrastructure or equipment is the result of some event,” indicated Cleare.


We face a key choice in building healthcare information exchanges (HIE). Do we develop new mechanisms and standards for health-specific data, or do we maximally leverage global open-source Grid initiatives that are currently taking other industries by storm, and modify those for the unique security structures, data models and workflows of healthcare?
Open-Source Software

EMR’s generate the greatest gains in reduced overhead, efficient billing and on-demand access.

March 13, 2007 — Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc. has chosen Hitachi Data Systems, to provide a range of advanced storage solutions for Fujifilm’s Synapse Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) customers.

The arrangement is expected to support healthcare providers in securing, managing, accessing and sharing burgeoning volumes of patient imaging data with Hitachi’s cost-effective, end-to-end solution.

March 13, 2007 - CDW Healthcare recently announced that it has signed an agreement with Barco to build and distribute integrated medical imaging solutions, reportedly providing advanced visualization and analysis of CT, MR and PET image workstations from HP and IBM.

The agreement includes Barco's Coronis and Nio lines of diagnostic imaging displays, Barco's advanced visualization software for 3D viewing and the optional Nio and Coronis LCD display lines, ranging from two to five mega-pixels and displaying images in full color and grayscale.

Cedara Software and InSite One have recently created a partnership in which Cedara will provide its InDex Web for InSite One, which includes a Web-based viewing package for exams stored in its client archives, allowing referring physicians to access results and reports.

Matrox Graphics will display its Matrox MEDT Series and Matrox AuroraVXT Series controller boards designed for medical imaging at the PACS 2007 conference, March 20-23 in San Antonio, TX.

The Matrox MED Series display controller boards include display configurations for landscape and portrait modes ranging from two through five mega pixels and includes a variety of grayscale and color models with analog and digital display support. The Matrox AuroraVX Series can power up to three displays, one navigation console display, along with two twin imaging displays from a single board.

NovaRad has recently received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)clearance for reading and interpreting mammography studies for its NovaPACS which is used for the distribution and viewing of mammography studies, including window,level,zoom and volumetric measurements.

InSite One recently unveiled its new disaster recovery data migration program, InDex Recovery, designed to allow healthcare clients without data protection or who have older archive systems to use the technology, featuring an onsite gateway with a single copy of the data offsite.

Rogan-Delft recently introduced its 64-bit View Pro-X v3.0 software, a standalone workstation that supports the Microsoft Windows 64-bit operating system and is reportedly capable of loading studies with about 10,000 images, which can be used with applications such as CT angiography run-offs.

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