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DeepWell Archival Services Announces Partnership with Keystone Medical Technologies
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.
Centennial, CO (PRWEB) March 11, 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 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- “RADSpaTM” 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
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 xDLTM 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.
October 22, 2012
Your Server and Your Data are on the Edge of a Cliff…
Which one do you save? This old technology adage is certainly as valid today as it was twenty years ago. Storage vendors traditionally used this analogy to make the point that you could always buy another server, but if you lost your data, your business could disappear, or at best suffer significant damage.
Although this analogy is as true today as it was 20 years ago, the difference now is that in today’s technology world your data, and for that matter your applications, can be affordably protected and distributed in ways never imagined 20 years ago.
Cloud-based solutions, for example DICOM image storage as a service, can be effectively and affordably utilized to meet HIPAA requirements for disaster recovery and business continuance contingencies for image data. Cloud based services can oftentimes give imaging professionals access to “latest/greatest” technologies and infrastructure that would be impossible to build internally, given budget and resource constraints that so often prevent care facilities from deploying new technologies.
With distributed, cloud-based PACS and data storage services, it’s almost impossible to consolidate your data into one place where it could even be placed “on the edge of a cliff”! So I guess its time for the storage vendors to come up with a new analogy!
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October 8, 2012
We’ve discussed the basic principles of vendor neutral archive technology in previous posts. So we felt that it might be a good time to delve a bit into what a VNA isn’t. As everyone in the medical imaging business knows, there is currently much discussion surrounding the term “VNA”. Every vendor in the industry, who is in any way involved with image storage, has weighed in on the subject in some form or fashion.
So, in highly opinionated fashion, :+D here are some thoughts on what a VNA IS NOT:
- A RAID 5 Disk Array attached to a Server with a Freeware PACS Application Running on It, Hosted in an Internet Data Center with a DICOM Router Sending Customer Image Data to It
- Enterprise Viewing Technology
- A Master Patient Index Application
- An Image Sharing and Exchange Application
A VNA solution can certainly incorporate some of these technology features, and others, into its feature set, but they are not requisite to calling a solution a vendor neutral archive.
So what is VNA technology you ask? You say you have to know the answer to this burning question that is causing so much controversy in our industry? Well, let’s look at the term; “Vendor Neutral Archive”. “Archive’ denotes long term electronic storage, that’s an easy one (well not really, but we’ll leave that to a future post). “Vendor Neutral”, let’s look at that one for a minute. How do medical image storage vendors provide a reasonable level of PACS storage neutrality?
We have a standard that tells us how of course. Then VNA is standards based storage! Yes! But the DICOM standard allows programmers, software developers and purveyors of storage solutions for medical images significant leeway when building products and applications, right? Yes, BUT there is conformance, and there is non-conformance. Without explicit conformance to the standard, your “VNA” is a “calorie free” solution, i.e. no real substance to it…
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