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HIMSS 2008 IN DEPTH @ HIMSS360.HealthImaging.com DATA STORAGE: Always safe, always accessible Disaster recovery and HIPAA compliancy are priorities in the data storage realm, with vendors offering a plethora of solutions. In particular, several companies, such as Neurostar and ScImage, are promoting the advantages of offsite backup and archiving, to satisfy HIPAA requirements for business continuity. The companies are evolving with innovative document management solutions as the digitization of patient, employee and ﬁnancial records, as well as integrating into electronic medical records or other retrieval system.  acuo technologies (Booth 8075) is showing version 6.0 of its DICOM Services Grid, a distributed framework for managing increasing medical imaging volume. By releasing the archive function from PACS, DICOM Services Grid allows healthcare institutions to own digital imaging data without future data migration setbacks, the company says. The latest release features full XDS-I Source and XDS-I Consumer functionality, along with high-performance API integrations to the advanced medical imaging infrastructures from Cisco, EMC, and IBM, which offer a robust choice of infrastructure technologies to manage the information lifecycle of medical imaging and related clinical content. The company also is launching a data migration program that will accompany next-generation PACS deployment, as well as provide a framework, in DICOM data migration. carestream Health (Booth 4248) is highlighting its Kodak Carestream information management solutions (IMS) platform that manages archived radiology images, displays DICOM and nonDICOM data and consolidates ﬁ xed content information, such as scanned patient documents, reports, audio clips, email and video ﬁ les into a central data repository. The capabilities are available on enterprise-wide and regional levels and the solutions can be integrated with a customer’s existing storage area network or network-attached storage systems.  neurostar solutions (Booth 4108) is debuting its myPIR, a service allowing patients to share personal imaging records with the attending physicians and specialists online. The service also provides long-term storage and private internet access to patient records. The company also is showcasing version 7 of its Virtual Radiology Network (VRN)—a service-oriented architecture for online management of clinical images. VRN 7 features cross-enterprise data access—a grid-like architecture that makes patient records available independent of the location of the data or the user. The new VRN 7 features a PACS Insurance program. Designed for organizations that have already installed PACS, the program offers disaster recovery and business continuity via off-site data and operations backup.   [ ScImage’s PicomOnline ] network appliance (Booth 2227) is demonstrating the capabilities of its NearStore virtual tape library (VTL) solution, a disk-to-disk backup appliance wide scimage (Booth 6971) is displaying its PicomOnline, which ly adopted by healthcare organizations that appears as a tape is a hosted, datacenter service providing off-site PACS, disaslibrary to a backup software application to provide superior ter recovery, long-term archiving and telemedicine services speed and reliability of disk technologies. for diagnostic imaging services. The system can be used NearStore VTL reduces management costs and improves standalone as a virtual PACS solution or in conjunction with backup and recovery performance while leveraging existing onsite PACS solutions such as PicomEnterprise. PicomOnIT investments and processes, the company says. The system line also provides a way to satisfy HIPAA requirements by can be used to back up any open system storage environment providing offsite storage for backup and business continuity and is certiﬁed for use with enterprise backup software. purposes. February 2008 | Health Imaging & IT 37 HealthImaging.com http://HIMSS360.HealthImaging.com http://HealthImaging.com

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