Offering Vendor Neutral Archive Technology for PACS Image Data

Centennial, Colorado (PRWEB) April 10, 2013

DeepWell Archival Services, Inc. (“The Company”), a cloud based storage services company focused on the long term PACS neutral archival of medical image data, announced today that it has consummated an integration partnership agreement with RIS/PACS technology solution provider, Keystone Medical Technologies, Inc. (“Keystone”). Under the terms of the agreement Keystone will offer the Company’s vendor neutral archive (VNA) technology as an integrated component of its Keystone Suite of integrated RIS/PACS technology solutions.

“We are extremely pleased with the opportunity to offer our VNA technology, in a ‘storage as a service’ delivery model, through a focused medical imaging IT solutions provider like Keystone Medical Technologies”, said Brian Sobnosky, CEO of DeepWell. Sobnosky added, “The relationship with Keystone gives DeepWell a strategic partner in the midrange RIS/PACS market, for our cloud based VNA solutions. We are looking forward to supporting the Keystone team in their efforts to deliver cutting edge, technology based workflow solutions to their clients in the diagnostic medical imaging space, by leveraging our cloud based PACS neutral archive technology.”

“We are looking forward to working with DeepWell as they continue to grow market share for their cloud based storage offerings, leveraging automation and advanced storage technologies, throughout the U.S. medical imaging market”, said Tommy Chambers, President of Keystone Medical Technologies.  Chambers continued, “Our clients are very sensitive to operational costs, especially as downward pressures on reimbursements and uncertainty about the future landscape of healthcare in general continue to grow. With a PACS, long term storage and archive stands out as the biggest piece the total cost of ownership ‘pie’ by far. DeepWell’s ‘one time fee’ for the life of the study, starts to bend that TCO curve down significantly, in favor of the imaging organization. At Keystone we believe in delivering the most advanced diagnostic technologies available, at the most economical price points. DeepWell’s cloud based VNA solution enables us to free up recurring capital and operating expense dollars for our clients. These are hard dollars that used to be spent, or more candidly wasted, on long term data storage and management. DeepWell’s fee structure is disruptive to the traditional PACS archive model, and beneficial to Keystone’s clients.”

About DeepWell Archival Services

DeepWell Archival Services is a privately held technology development and integration company, and North American licensee for German based Telepaxx Medical Archiving GmbH. Specializing in vendor neutral archive (aka PACS neutral archive) solutions, and utilizing software and technology responsible for the safe, secure archival of over 1.6 billion medical images worldwide, the Company provides cloud based “storage as a service” product offerings for medical imaging professionals and organizations of all sizes. For press inquiries, please contact Brian F. Sobnosky at 303.949.6038, or brian@deepwellarchive.com. Additional information on DeepWell Archival Services is available at: http://www.deepwellarchive.com.

About Keystone Medical Technologies

Keystone Medical Technologies is an innovative healthcare IT solution provider, focused primarily on RIS/PACS technology integration. Keystone’s mission is to help imaging organizations of all sizes “unlock their full potential” by providing innovative and cost effective clinical information and image management solutions, as part of our Keystone Suite of products. For more information, call 201.323.0089 or email tchambers@keystonemedicalus.com. More information is also available at http://keystonemedicalus.com.

DeepWell Archival Services, Inc. (“The Company”), a cloud based storage services company focused on the long term PACS neutral archival of medical image data, announced today that it has added another new client for its cloud based medical image archival services. Under the terms of the agreement, strategic technology partner Telerad Tech, will offer the Company’s vendor neutral archive (VNA) technology as an integrated component of its robust RADSpa™ hosted RIS/PACS architecture to provide long term data preservation for MRI of America’s critical diagnostic study data.

“We are excited about the continuing trend we see for adoption of cloud based image management services”, said Brian Sobnosky, CEO of DeepWell. Sobnosky added, “Our strategic partnership with Telerad Tech gives diagnostic imaging services providers like MRI of America the opportunity to access advanced technologies via the cloud, without the infrastructure, maintenance, and management costs typically associated with a PACS/VNA implementation.”

“We are extremely pleased with the clinical and business benefits that we are seeing from adopting the cloud based PACS and VNA technologies,” said Stan Guzman, Principal at MRI of America. Guzman continued, “The one time ‘fee per study’ billing structure ensures that we don’t pay for any unnecessary technology infrastructure costs, until we actually provide diagnostic services to a patient. The result has been a measurable reduction in operational costs and inefficiencies.”

Mohan Mysore VP of Sales and Marketing for Telerad Tech added: “Using the established and reliable cloud based services, Radiologists, and Physicians have easy access to advanced PACS and VNA technology, that would normally require significant capital expense and effort to implement. It’s been a real win-win for our technology partners and our clients.”

About DeepWell Archival Services

DeepWell Archival Services is a privately held technology development and integration company, and North American licensee for German based Telepaxx Medical Archiving GmbH. Specializing in vendor neutral archive (aka PACS neutral archive) solutions, and utilizing software and technology responsible for the safe, secure archival of over 1.6 billion medical images worldwide, the Company provides cloud based “storage as a service” product offerings for medical imaging professionals and organizations of all sizes. For press inquiries, please contact Brian F. Sobnosky at (303) 949-6038, or brian@deepwellarchive.com. Additional information on DeepWell Archival Services is available at: http://www.deepwellarchive.com.

About MRI of America

MRI of America provides patients with comprehensive medical imaging services with the highest level of diagnostic value. MRI of America provides its patients with the most comfortable experience possible, without medication, utilizing the most cutting edge stand up MRI technology available, the “FONAR Non Enclosed Upright Weight-bearing Positional MRI”. At MRI of America, our patient centric mission is carried through by our compassionate, caring, and understanding team of medical professionals. MRI of America’s outpatient center strives to be the most innovative, patient friendly, and professional medical imaging provider available today. For more information contact Stan Guzman at 303.649.9688. Additional information on MRI of America is available at: http://www.mriofamerica.com.

About Telerad Tech Pvt Ltd

Telerad Tech, the technology and services arm of its parent company “Teleradiology Solutions Pvt Ltd” (http://www.telradsol.com/, rated the No 1 National Teleradiology Provider in USA by KLAS 2011), builds workflow enhancing products with built in image management capabilities for: radiology imaging, clinical imaging, telemedicine and dental imaging. Telerad Tech’s flagship workflow improvement productivity solution- “RADSpa^TM” has over 50 installations worldwide. RADSpa is a unique cloud-based imaging workflow intelligence system designed to improve communication and collaboration among physicians, technologists, IT staff and institutions. For press inquiries, please contact Mohan Mysore at 763.244.1263, or. Additional information on Telerad Tech is available at: http://www.teleradtech.com.

Offering standards based management of PACS image data

Centennial, Colorado (PRWEB) January 29, 2013

DeepWell Archival Services, Inc. (“The Company”), a cloud based storage services company focused on the long term PACS neutral archival of medical image data, in conjunction with strategic technology partner DeJarnette Research Systems, announced today that their integrated Foundational VNA Software solution is available for under $50k.

“These pricing levels confirm that enterprise class software technology is accessible to imaging organizations requiring advanced VNA functionality, without a major capital expenditure or protracted implementation”, said Brian Sobnosky, CEO of DeepWell. Sobnosky added, “Together with our strategic partners at DeJarnette, we’re providing access to advanced storage software technologies to enable imaging organizations to implement a solid VNA foundation, along with robust disaster recovery, business continuity and tier-3 deep archive functionality. And we’re not asking them to break the bank in the process.”

“We’re putting our money, and our technology, where our mouth is,” said Philip Rispoli, Vice President of Business Development for DeJarnette. As one of the pioneers in the development of VNA technology and disparate system interoperability, we’ve always felt that the there should be a ‘building block’ approach to VNA implementation within a reasonable capital expense budget. Imaging organizations, today, face the same technology and financial issues surrounding image data management that they faced ten years ago, and we think it’s time to change that.”

Rispoli continued, “Expensive and complex image sharing and exchange infrastructures, incompatibilities between PACS vendors, risky, costly data migrations…these issues, along with regulatory compliance requirements for Disaster Recovery, Business Continuance and lengthy data retention periods have historically wreaked havoc on end user budgets and IT staff. Well, not anymore. The combined solution includes a ‘Last Migration Guarantee’ both on site and in the off site deep archive, an ‘Image Display Guarantee’, and world class disaster recovery with business continuity and tier-3 deep archive functionality utilizing DeepWell’s unique cloud based storage services. We’re also providing future XDS and XDSi integration capability in the base configuration. This solution is feature rich to say the least, and it’s available at price points that finally tip the value scale toward the end-user client’s favor.”

About DeepWell Archival Services

DeepWell Archival Services is a privately held technology development and integration company, and North American licensee for German based Telepaxx Medical Archiving GmbH. Specializing in vendor neutral archive (aka PACS neutral archive) solutions, and utilizing software and technology responsible for the safe, secure archival of over 1.6 billion medical images worldwide, the Company provides cloud based “storage as a service” product offerings for medical imaging professionals and organizations of all sizes. For inquiries, please contact Brian Sobnosky at 303.949.6038, or brian@deepwellarchive.com. Additional information on DeepWell Archival Services is available at: http://www.deepwellarchive.com.

About DeJarnette Research Systems

DeJarnette Research Systems, Inc. is a world leader in medical imaging interface technology. The company is dedicated to increasing the efficiency of image management workflow for all healthcare providers. Founded in 1985, the Towson, Maryland-based company engineers, manufactures and markets Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) workflow components, healthcare IT software, and imaging interface hardware. The company’s solutions are sold through dealers, resellers and OEM partners. For press inquiries, please contact Phillip Rispoli at: 603.479.1259, or prispoli@dejarnette.com. Additional information on DeJarnette Research Systems is available at: http:// http://www.dejarnette.com

Offering standards based archiving of PACS image data

Centennial, Colorado (PRWEB) January 29, 2013

DeepWell Archival Services, Inc. (“The Company”), a cloud based storage services company focused on the long term PACS neutral archival of medical image data, announced today that it has consummated an integration partnership agreement with image management technology solution provider, DR Systems. Under the terms of the agreement DR Systems will offer the Company’s vendor neutral archive (VNA) technology as an integrated component of its robust Unity RIS/PACS architecture.

“We are extremely pleased with the opportunity to partner with a recognized industry leader in the enterprise PACS, CVIS, RIS, and advanced image processing space”, said Brian Sobnosky, CEO of DeepWell. Sobnosky added, “The relationship with DR Systems gives DeepWell a strategic partnership with an industry leading PACS technology manufacturer and software developer, for our cloud based VNA solutions. We are looking forward to supporting the DR Systems team in its efforts to continue to bring innovative technology and workflow solutions to its clients, utilizing our integrated VNA solution.”

“We are looking forward to offering imaging organizations of all sizes the ability to leverage our RIS/PACS and advanced image processing platform, while at the same time providing them with secure, accessible, standards based archival of their diagnostic study data using DeepWell’s unique VNA technology”, said Kent Curtis, Chief Operating Officer at DR Systems. “We are very excited about the opportunity to partner with DeepWell. The combined, integrated solution provides ‘cradle to grave’, automated information lifecycle management for our customers’ medical image and report data, with minimal capital expense and no complex storage infrastructure to maintain and manage.”

“PACS neutral archive is more than a catch phrase. It means robust, automated ‘end to end’ storage management of all of our clients’ medical image data throughout the information’s lifecycle. This includes disaster management, business continuity, and automated data migration capabilities for the length of the information lifecycle, normally a minimum of seven years. Medical image data should be managed as a clinical asset, not treated as a corporate and financial liability. Integrated PACS neutral archive instantiates a compelling information management solution, from a clinical, financial and technological perspective,”  said Curtis. “The PACS neutral archive solution is supported across our entire Unity PACS platform and will be available to customers on a ‘pay-per-use’, fixed cost basis.”

About DeepWell Archival Services

DeepWell Archival Services is a privately held technology development and integration company, and North American licensee for German based Telepaxx Medical Archiving GmbH. Specializing in vendor neutral archive (aka PACS neutral archive) solutions, and utilizing software and technology responsible for the safe, secure archival of over 1.6 billion medical images worldwide, the Company provides cloud based “storage as a service” product offerings for medical imaging professionals and organizations of all sizes. For press inquiries, please contact Brian F. Sobnosky at (303) 949-6038, or brian@deepwellarchive.com. Additional information on DeepWell Archival Services is available at: http://www.deepwellarchive.com.

About DR Systems

DR Systems is the leading independent provider of enterprise imaging and information management systems for integrated healthcare networks, hospitals, and diagnostic imaging centers. For over two decades, the company has helped more than 600 hospitals and imaging centers lower their cost of operation by improving management of patient information, eliminating ancillary IT systems and interfaces, and increasing workflow speed, while also providing better clinical quality and patient care. DR Systems was recently named the “2012 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Services” report for the third year in a row. The company received the #1 PACS vendor ranking in 2001, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, and now 2012. For more information, call 800-794-5955 or visit www.drsys.com.

Towson, Maryland (PRWEB) November 23, 2012

DeJarnette Research Systems, Inc. (“The Company”), of Towson, Maryland, a leading provider of medical imaging and informatics interoperability software and technology solutions, announced today that it has consummated an integration partnership agreement with cloud based image management technology solution provider, DeepWell Archival Services, Inc. (DeepWell). Under the terms of the agreement The Company and DeepWell will co-market the integrated Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) and image management solutions to imaging organizations of all sizes.

“We are looking forward to offering imaging organizations of all sizes the ability to leverage our scalable, cost effective VNA technology and PACS workflow solutions”, said Philip Rispoli, Vice President Business Development for DeJarnette. Rispoli added, “We are very excited about the opportunity to partner with DeepWell. The combined integrated solutions provide unparalleled ‘cradle to grave’ image management for medical imaging organizations of all types and sizes, while limiting capital expense and simplifying infrastructure management through the use of cloud services and software automation. This is a compelling clinical and business solution, both from a cost and a technology value perspective. Imaging organization’s can now access enterprise class technologies on a ‘pay-per-use’, fixed cost basis.”

Rispoli continued, “We wanted to take a different approach than the rest of the market. Rather than design a ‘one size fits all VNA solution’, we wanted to craft a framework of solutions that would embrace different sizes and types of organizations, with different requirements and budgets. With our underlying xDL^TM  image management technology, combined with DeepWell’s cloud services, we can provide a scalable solution to meet the storage and long term image management requirements of any imaging organization, no matter what its size or mission. Whether you need a basic long-term archive, a low cost disaster recovery solution, or a full featured VNA with image exchange and cross-enterprise document and image sharing, we’ve got the answer.”

“We are extremely pleased with the opportunity to partner with a world leader in medical informatics and VNA technology solutions, like DeJarnette”, said Brian Sobnosky, CEO of DeepWell. Sobnosky added, “Together we’re solving image storage and management problems, and not bothering with the polemics of what a VNA ‘is or isn’t’. We’re combining DeepWell’s cloud storage technologies with DeJarnette’s software and systems expertise for the benefit of the end user. An imaging organization can now start with a simple standards based image archive or DR solution, knowing that they can scale into an integrated, enterprise class VNA and image management implementation. And they can do it one technology piece at a time based on requirements, budgets and resources. This is disruptive technology at disruptive price points.”

Sobnosky concluded, “The integration of DeJarnette’s medical image management software solutions, with DeepWell’s cloud based image archival technology, combines (40) years worth of technology and experience in the image archival and management space. We look forward to working with the DeJarnette team in our combined efforts to capture significant market share in the cloud-based archive, image management, and VNA market spaces.”

About DeJarnette Research Systems

DeJarnette Research Systems, Inc. is a world leader in medical imaging interface technology. The company is dedicated to increasing the efficiency of image management workflow for all healthcare providers. Founded in 1985, the Towson, Maryland-based company engineers, manufactures and markets Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) workflow components, healthcare IT software, and imaging interface hardware. The company’s solutions are sold through dealers, resellers and OEM partners. DeJarnette maintains an ISO 9001 and TickIT certified quality management system. For press inquiries, please contact Phillip Rispoli at: 603.479.1259, or prispoli@dejarnette.com. Additional information on DeJarnette Research Systems is available at: http:// http://www.dejarnette.com

About DeepWell Archival Services

DeepWell Archival Services is a privately held technology development and integration company engaged in the medical technology industry, and specializing in cloud based storage and long term archival of electronic medical image data. Specializing in vendor neutral archive (aka PACS neutral archive) services, and utilizing the software and technology developed by German based Telepaxx Medical Archiving, the Company provides cloud based “storage as a service” product offerings for medical imaging professionals and organizations of all sizes. For press inquiries, please contact Brian F. Sobnosky at: 303.949.6038, or brian@deepwellarchive.com. Additional information on DeepWell Archival Services is available at: http://www.deepwellarchive.com.

Medical Image Storage Without DICOM…Like Buying a Car Without a Transmission!

So, you’re considering adding some additional storage and archive resources for your PACS. Possibly you’re considering the addition of some additional data center and storage resources for a disaster recovery facility, or simply adding additional archive storage. There could be many reasons for a data center and/or capacity expansion.

And you’re considering the cloud-based, hosted model for the additional storage resources. Storage is storage, so what the heck, might as well just buy the cheapest service available, right? WRONG! Let’s just hold on a minute…

Electronic medical image storage is not just any old storage. As we all know the data has a typical seven year retention requirement at a minimum, is heavily regulated, contains sensitive PHI, etc. But what the heck, chances are that you will never require much of your archived information back, so why not take the chance that it might not be recoverable in three, or five, or seven years, right? What a reckless statement you say! Well, I think we all would agree that it was a reckless statement indeed!

Unfortunately, that’s the chance you take unless you’re creating an archive copy of your diagnostic study information with an application that conforms explicitly to the only universally accepted standard for the long term storage of electronic medical image data. We are referring, of course, to the DICOM standard.

“Car for Sale. Looks Great! Priced for Quick Sale! No Transmission!” Any takers?

Our blogs over the coming several weeks will continue to be focused on cloud-based image storage, so stay tuned!

We will bring you more news, opinions and research on this and other topics in future posts.

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Can Electronic Image Sharing Lower Radiation Exposure?

Electronic image sharing among facilities has shown a reduced rate of repeat CT scans for trauma patients.  Research done in the Pacific Northwest showed that electronic image sharing indeed reduced the amount of radiation dose by reducing the need for repeat CT studies and reduced overall costs.

From an article posted on auntminnie.com “Lead author Dr. Patrick Flanagan, of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, CA, and co-authors from the University of Washington found that the image transfer approach used by the university’s Harborview Medical Center (HMC) led to a repeat study rate of only 17% over 500 consecutive trauma transfer patients — compared with rates of 29% to 58% in the literature.”

Clearly the most effective way to reduce patient exposure to radiation during advanced imaging procedures is to limit the studies performed.  The research clearly demonstrates that electronic image sharing can reduce the amount of repeat studies and reduce overall costs.  The study used a combination of internet-based VPN along with shared CD’s, for centers without VPN connections.  The transport of CD’s has problems of its own, for example studies being encrypted on one facility’s PACS and not being recognized by another PACS.  Other common issues associated with the transport of CD’s include loss or damage during transport, which can cause significant delays in patient treatment.

Electronic image sharing technologies are readily available for imaging centers and hospitals. We can see that the ability to share images between facilities with disparate PACS decreases exposure to radiation and reduces costs. The use of Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) technologies and a broader adoption of cloud based services will no doubt facilitate the electronic sharing of images and improve overall patient care as well. Implementing cloud based VNA technologies will facilitate the sharing of images among disparate PACS, and save facilities significant dollars in the process.

We will bring you more news, research and opinions on this and other topics in future posts.

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