Working with some of Maine's largest healthcare organizations, HealthInfoNet will pilot the nation's first statewide medical image archive.
HealthInfoNet has selected Dell to build and operate the new cloud-based archive. HealthInfoNet, Dell, and a pilot group of Maine healthcare organizations will collaborate over the summer to confirm the system design and integrate the service with existing PACS and the health information exchange (HIE). HealthInfoNet expects to end the pilot phase in the fall and expand the service statewide by 2013.
An estimated 1.8 million medical images are generated in Maine each year, totaling more than 45 TB of data. The organizations participating in the pilot generate 1.4 million of those images.
