A PACS Admin’s Life

One man takes on the world of PACS, RIS, dicom, and all that is digital imaging.

HDS: Storage Systems> Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS), AMS1000, AMS500, AMS200

Hitachi’s SANs are not as prevelent in North America as are offerings from EMC and others. Here is some info (from a Hitachi page) of the lineup. We use the 500 series. It has been great. Yes, there have been 2 bad disks in the 6 months we’ve had it, but ...

Hardware (SAN) for PACS coming together

It has been quite the experience trying to pick just the right hardware for our forthcoming Intelerad PACS deployment. Complicating matters somewhat is that we are simultaneously deploying VMWare’s ESX solution for our non PACS servers, which requires hardware as well. Not to mention, our internal/external network needs to be modernized ...

1 TB Desktop Storage

Hitachi has shown its 1 Terabyte hard drive. If we start running out of space again, perhaps throwing a few of these in our NAS boxes would do the trick.  

Conquest Server Mirroring / Comparing DICOM Image Counts

Our architecture is such that each clinic runs its own Conquest server. This server is nothing more then a powerful PC with mirrored 500GB drives. It was determined that it would be more cost effective to use inexpensive servers on site with limited storage, and to invest in large storage ...

Oh The Details…

Think you have all your ducks in a row in regards to your disaster recovery plans? You might want to check those ducky’s again! Claus Mikkelsen talks about a bank that thought all was well during a power outage. Trouble is, they had diesel generators on the roof, supplied by diesel fuel ...

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March 12th 2010
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Televox: Nifty Service, Below Par Implementation

In an effort to decrease our No Show rate, we have enlisted the assistance of Televox, to automatically place appointment confirmation calls. We had done reference checks (which I highly recommend you do!) and were told to watch out for snags during implementation. Otherwise, the feedback was stellar. Sure enough, ...
March 12th 2010
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Importance of Testing Upgrades

Up until a little while ago, we upgraded to new PACS releases rather late in the game. Of course, this may have meant we gave up a nifty new feature or two, but it also meant the upgrade we got was tried and tested, and worked as expected for us. ...
February 9th 2010
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Mammo viewer… progress is good

Intelerad really won us over years ago with their responsive communication. In sharp contrast to the other vendor under heavy consideration at the time (Agfa), we saw our questions answers and our concerns addressed in a reasonable timeframe time and again. I imagine a significant number of other customers would ...
January 31st 2010
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Disaster Planning… how much is enough? Part 4

One of our initiatives right now is to build a Disaster Recovery site. Unfortunately, those cost money. So the people signing the checks want to know what the project is going to provide before approving funds. This is where things get tricky. It is a DR site, it is going ...
January 29th 2010
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Disaster Planning… how much is enough? Part 3

We are fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on the day!) to have a RIS developed in house. This affords us some great flexibility, but it can also cause much stress. Without a vendor to fall back on, the buck stops with us when something goes south. Happily, that doesn’t happen often ...

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