Thursday, December 3 | 11:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | SSQ10-06 | Room S402AB
Institutions with legacy CD and DVD backup archives would be wise to regularly check on the integrity of their image data, according to this scientific session presentation based on research from University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands.
Out of the 600 CD-Rs in their legacy archive, nine (1.5%) contained severe errors and could not be read. On the bright side, DICOM data could be extracted from the remaining 591 CD-Rs without any problems.
Even after a few years, though, deterioration in the quality of the CDs leads to data loss, said presenter Peter van Ooijen, Ph.D. He presented a similar talk at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM).
"The only way for a hospital to guarantee the backup is to regularly check, and, if necessary, migrate to a new storage media to avoid the effects of deterioration," he said.
