Sana Southwest digitizes Radiology in its Five Houses

VISUS becomes General Contractor with PACS JiveX

Bochum, April 3rd, 2008 - Sana Southwest will little by little provide its five houses in the region with the digital picture communication and archiving system (PACS) JiveX by VISUS.
The central PACS component will be implemented in the Karl-Olga-Hospital in Stuttgart. After finishing the project the Sana heart surgery clinic Stuttgart, the hospital of the Red Cross in
Bad Cannstatt, the Sana clinic Bad Wildbad and the Sana clinic Zollernalb will have at its disposal a local, highly available and independently usable systems. All data -  a volume of about eleven TeraByte per year is expected - will be transferred to a mirrored, audit proof long term archive.

"With this PACS introduction we primarily want to standardize the medical picture processing and archiving . Furthermore within the Sana Group we a new path with the central long term archiving. Therefore the project is exemplary for future implementation within the group," Norbert Brenner, head & authorized representative  in the Sana IT region southwest and responsible for the storage concept, explains the role model character.

In the run-up to the bidding the requirements for the solutions to be chosen had been clearly defined: At first the provider had to ensure sufficient flexibility in implementing the PACS project and act as general contractor. PACS should intelligently and storage friendly realize an audit proof long term archive and be accredited according to the Federal Radiation Regulations. In addition it had to allow integration into the existing radiology information system run under Citrix and to support the different sites with limited WAN bandwidth to the optimum. Last but not least it should allow to process all picture formats if possible.

"VISUS was able to meet all requirements, has the experience in projects of comparable size and convinced us with an excellent value for money ," Brenner summarizes the decisive reasons for the order given to VISUS.

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VISUS profile

VISUS is a leading provider of complex image management solutions in medicine. The range of products goes from mere image examination to Enterprise PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) to hospital - wide or across sites image communication platform.

VISUS also provides image logistics systems for mammogram screenings and large tele-radiological networks. The international DICOM standard as well as up to date Java technologies are the essential modules of the product family called JiveX. Being a spin off of the University Witten/Herdecke VISUS has available a remarkable Know how about DICOM due to numerous reference projects for the Committee for the Advancement of DICOM in the US.

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