T-Systems and VISUS cooperate in the filed of Picture Data Archiving

Germany, April 9th, 2008 - Hospitals have to digitally keep medical documents audit proof with a lot of material and personnel efforts. Telekom subsidiary T-Systems - together with VISUS - now offers a solution, which will relieve you of installation, maintenance and services for the necessary systems according to the principle "Software as a Service". Customers are able to rent Services on a flexible basis. They will pay per examination respectively per data unit (e.g. Gigabyte) or they simply pay a fixed price for each year of archiving. So they do not have to invest in their own hardware and software.

 

This solution is already successful in the market. At present VISUS and T-Systems are taking over external long term archiving for three hospitals of the Evangelischen Stiftung Augusta in Bochum, Germany, starting with a data amount of more than ten terabyte. A user hotline comes with the offer of T-Systems and VISUS. Also included in this service is the necessary data and/or hardware implementation within the scope of the stipulated term of safekeeping. The digital long term archiving solution has been developed according to the regulations of the IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise). It aims at unifying data exchange in using standards like Health Level 7 (HL7) and DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine). With that the development, awarded and prize - given by the State of North-Rhine Westphalia, ensures a high degree in investment security for customers.

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