Carestream’s vendor-neutral archive that unites DICOM and non-DICOM data from disparate clinical systems will be showcased at the 2013 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting held June 6 to June 9 in Grapevine, Texas. In addition to helping equip clinicians with a comprehensive view of patient clinical information, Carestream Vue for Vendor-Neutral Archive can simplify and consolidate storage resources to simultaneously help reduce costs and enhance workflow by eliminating departmental silos of clinical information.

This archiving solution is available as an on-site or cloud-based solution and can be accessed anywhere, anytime using Carestream’s zero-footprint, Web-based Vue Motion image viewer. The viewer allows physicians to review information on Web-enabled devices like the iPad. In addition to offering clinical advantages, vendor-neutral archives offer significant advantages to IT managers and staff by reducing or eliminating the need to manage and support disparate departmental systems. A consolidated archive also simplifies future storage expansion and facilitates disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

Carestream’s vendor-neutral archive provides these capabilities:

  • Adheres to open standards to enable consolidation of data while addressing the workflow and archiving needs of each department. In addition to DICOM and non-DICOM data, it supports text-based information, scanned PDF documents, and JPEG images through use of XDS/XDS-I standards.
  • Ensures both data integrity and synchronization. Powerful metadata manipulation techniques, such as DICOM tag morphing, plus support for PIX (patient identifier cross referencing), and a master patient index (MPI) enable viewing of all patient documents regardless of the search field. Data synchronization also equips a multi-site VNA installation to provide geographically dispersed disaster recovery and business continuity.
  • Supports the ability to migrate descriptive DICOM header information (metadata) independently from the DICOM image. This capability delivers convenient, affordable migration of large amounts of data, even over low-bandwidth networks.
  • Applies automated information lifecycle management rules to manage data retention and reduce data management costs and manual tasks.