Internet-Enhanced Physician Practices
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Application Service Provider PACS: Analyzing Costs of Service
Towards A New World of Communications in Medicine
St Paul Radiology Goes Filmless
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Customer Base
Partnerships
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IMAGE MANAGEMENT AND STORAGE
FRAMEWAVE Compression Server
This application, which runs on off-the-shelf servers, can serve even the largest enterprises through installation on multiple servers. It is designed to distribute images cost effectively over LANs, WANs, and dial-up networks, and it provides multivendor connectivity with pixel correction, multiple bit-depth support, header normalization, and multivendor destination device designation. The server handles multiple DICOM connection simultaneously and provides automatic routing of examinations to the appropriate review stations, as well as to referring physicians (via World Wide Web). The server can be part of a miniPACS that solves a specific problem, then become part of a full PACS as the installation expands.
FRAMEWAVE Compression Archive
Using removable optical media, this cost-effective DICOM archive provides scalable long-term storage that can become as large as necessary. Prior studies are automatically retrieved from the archive (prefetched) as needed for comparison with the examination being interpreted. Postfetching and study aging are also performed automatically. A robust, common platform and Unix operating system are used by the archive, and a tape backup and uninterruptible power supply are included.
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This compact, economical PACS can serve a medium-sized facility fully or serve as a first miniPACS in a large enterprise. All PACS acquisition, storage, review, and transmission functions are present: a diagnostic workstation, a 750-gigabyte compressed magneto-optical archive, a redundant array of independent drives for 160 gigabytes of compressed online storage, and the necessary hardware for LAN/WAN or dial-up transmission. Work lists, study-status management features, and prefetching of comparison images improve productivity, and extensive security measures ensure data integrity.
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