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Implementation of Acuo Technologies PACS Neutral Archive will help doctors and administrators access and effectively manage hundreds of terabytes of medical imaging data.

Acuo Technologies, developers of the market leading highperformance software for intelligent medical image management, data migration tools and services, announced the contracting with Western Pennsylvania Allegheny Health System ( WPAHS ) of Pittsburgh, PA, for a new vendor neutral archiving solution which becomes the basis of the Hospital’s medical image management platform. The archiving solution is based on the Acuo Technologies DICOM Services Grid™ software storing to WPAHS NetApp storage management system thus leveraging the existing technology partnership WPAHS has made in storage.

Acuo Technologies’ integrated medical imaging solution, the DICOM Services Grid, allows Western Pennsylvania Allegheny Health System to gain control of hundreds of terabytes of existing medical data such as x-rays and cardiology images as well as providing a robust image management layer for all future medical imaging content. The Acuo solution provides WPAHS a standards based automated system with business continuity resulting in a lower total cost of ownership by eliminating the expense of integrations to multiple proprietary systems.

The solution selected by WPAHS is designed to allow all medical images to be stored on the Acuo archive, enabling a hospital Electronic Medical Record ( EMR ) portal to have one location to retrieve patient images, instead of multiple integrations and locations. The Acuo solution will ensure that all patient studies are safely stored, protected and can be accessed from any WPAHS location in a consistent and reliable fashion.

Western Pennsylvania Allegheny Health System will also be using the Acuo DICOM Assisted Migration ( ADAM) software to move data from the existing vendor’s archive into the Acuo vendor neutral archive, ensuring that WPAHS will be able to gain control of their data and not pay for a migration again. The Acuo solution will be used as the PACS Neutral Archive of Record for future PACS system purchases. This strategy will enable WPAHS to add applications directly to the Acuo archive without expensive and complex integrations to existing and future PACS. Using the standards based approach, the Acuo solution will eliminate the costly and time consuming data migrations in the future.

“As we began the efforts of consolidation across multiple campuses, it was important to us to build a solid, vendor neutral image archiving foundation,” said Carolyn C. Kelly, RN, BS, Director of Clinical Systems, West Penn Allegheny Health System. “Standardization and consolidation of technology across multiple campuses is a strategic goal of the West Penn Allegheny Health System. To that end, we chose Acuo because they provide the flexibility to build a foundation for image storage that will meet our needs today and well into the future.”

Source: Acuo Technologies