GE will roll out its Centricity Enterprise Archive (EA), which can provide DICOM storage for radiology and cardiology images and other DICOM objects.
Capable of serving as both a component of Centricity PACS and a standalone DICOM archive, Centricity EA provides for storage and retrieval of DICOM images, according to the Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.-based vendor. EA employs IHE profiles and DICOM, and can store images as uncompressed, JPEG lossless or lossy-compressed, and JPEG2000 lossless or lossy-compressed, GE said.
GE said that EA can manage storage systems such as network-attached storage (NAS), storage-area network (SAN), EMC Centera's content-addressable storage (CAS), and storage devices such as tape jukeboxes in combination with hierarchical storage management (HSM) products.
In addition to handling radiology and cardiology images, EA can accommodate other DICOM objects such as structured reports, presentation states, and visible light images, GE said.
EA's default server configuration has space for a database with entries up to 75 million images (if no thumbnails are stored), or 25 million images (if the largest 128 x 128 thumbnails are stored), GE said. For larger archives, GE said it can configure the server with external redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID).
A shadowing feature allows GE to automatically replicate itself to a second, offsite archive, GE said. An application service provider (ASP) option is also available.
In other features, GE's Centricity Web application can be run on EA.
By Erik L. Ridley
AuntMinnie.com staff writer
November 6, 2006
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