DICOM Storage System Provides Cost-Effective and Secure Archive

A new Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) storage system is an intelligent long-term storage solution that addresses the need for expanded storage capacity in organizations that are creating an increasing number of images and keeping them for longer periods. The system is also suitable for replacing obsolete deep archive technologies including tape and optical storage.

ProStor Systems (Boulder, CO, USA), a developer of removable disk storage systems, presented its ProStor InfiniVault-DICOM storage system to the healthcare community at the 2008 Radiological Society of North American (RSNA) 2008 Conference in Chicago, IL, USA, from November 30 to December 5, 2008.

In addition to DICOM images, ProStor InfiniVault-DICOM stores and properly retains electronic medical records and business files. The scalable and affordable system manages DICOM objects over the network for modalities, radiology information systems (RIS), hospital information systems (HIS), and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). Patients, doctors, technicians, and healthcare administrators benefit from this cost-effective system that easily slides into existing environments with DICOM 3.0 conformance and HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) compliance.

Unlike other disk-based storage systems, ProStor InfiniVault-DICOM integrates industry-leading RDX removable disk cartridges to provide the performance of online storage with the economics of offline storage. The system simplifies the management of data by enabling secure local and remote access to images, automatically making multiple copies of data for offsite archival and disaster recovery. The system also automates data retention with HIPAA compliance, including the disposition of images and data.

The ProStor InfiniVault-DICOM model 100 system is capable of managing more than one billion studies in DICOM format. Each 500 GB-removable disk cartridge employed by ProStor InfiniVault can store 500 multi-slice computed tomography (CT) scans, 2,500 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans or 10,000 X-rays at a time. With up to 100 RDX cartridges online and an infinite number offline, ProStor InfiniVault-DICOM can manage all DICOM image and file needs of an organization.

"We're pleased to partner with ProStor to provide to the healthcare community the best archive storage for CT scans, MRIs, digitized X-rays and EMR [electronic medical record] files,” said Joe Rorke, vice president of marketing and business development of Rorke Data. "We chose ProStor InfiniVault-DICOM because it is a scalable, secure, and affordable solution for PACS DICOM image archiving and can also be used for the storage of HIS, RIS, patient records, and business data.”

Buzz Walker, vice president of marketing for ProStor Systems, agreed, "Imaging labs, regional clinics, and hospitals looking for a DICOM-compliant system to address their growing capacity needs will find that ProStor InfiniVault-DICOM is a superior cost-effective alternative to traditional disk, tape, or optical archive solutions and provides protection from technology obsolescence and migration.”

ProStor Systems is at developer of enterprise-class removable disk storage systems for backup and data preservation providing the benefits of online storage with the economics of offline storage. ProStor InfiniVault virtualizes removable disk with network disk to greatly lower data retention costs and power consumption. The ProStor InfiniVault data preservation operating system also simplifies how information technology (IT) professionals in departments and small through mid-tier companies can provide users with low cost, long-term data availability to meet even the most stringent governance, regulatory and legal retention requirements.

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