| The EXAM-Vault™ module of the CoActiv EXAM-PACS™ consists of a special version of the CoActiv EXAM-Server™ module which provides for the automatic archiving of exams into the most reliable, redundant and secure storage facility provided by current technology. Every exam is stored four times within the CoActiv EXAM-PACS System. On-line exam storage is located on your local EXAM-Server and on two redundant-mirrored multi-terabyte RAID arrays located in two separate datacenters; one in Tarrytown, NY, and the other in Ridgefield, CT. The primary datacenter in Tarrytown is housed in a facility built by IBM as the former datacenter for Union Carbide World Headquarters. Now under private management, this class-A datacenter is located several stories underground with redundant power, generator fail-over, multi self-healing OC3 direct fiber connections to the Internet, a biometric entry security system and a 7x24x365 fully manned NOC (network operations center). This site is safe, secure and audited for HIPAA privacy and security.
As soon as an exam is received from any DICOM compliant modality, it is stored on the local EXAM-Server, and is instantly, and automatically, sent from the practice’s EXAM-Server to the primary datacenter archive in New York and is simultaneously mirrored to the redundant archive site in Connecticut. Exams in both sites reside on huge disk drive RAID arrays with hot spare redundant drives, redundant power supplies, redundant cooling fans and high-speed SCSI data transfer facilities. These arrays are outfitted with automatic remote monitoring, as well as, local technical staff monitoring. All exams are also permanently archived to digital tape storage. So, within seconds after the exam is finished on the modality in your imaging center, or hospital imaging department, it is stored on your local EXAM-Server for up to 6 – 12 months, instantly archived for permanent on-line storage on the redundant RAID units in the two datacenters and is then backed-up to digital tape on a regular schedule.
Restoration of any of hundreds of thousands of exams from the archive for comparison purposes, is instantly available from any workstation in any location on your CoActiv PACS Network. This exam retrieval can be either manually or automatically pre-fetched by an integrated RIS system.
You no longer have to be concerned about maintaining local archives; clumsy tape drives or easily scratched local archive CDs or DVDs. And of course, expensive, clumsy and hard-to-store film is history. All exams are also instantly available for automatic transmission to your referring physicians, and all exam retrieval from the archive is performed utilizing our huge bandwidth resources rather than your expensive and usually limited local practice bandwidth… a tremendous cost savings to the practice.
This quad-redundant exam archiving is available for as little as pennies per exam per year. Compare this to the cost of film or local archiving!
EXAM-PACS™ Configuration Guide
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