MiPACS™ Storage Server DICOM Image Archive

Imaging Management Solutions for Radiology - Image Archiving Solutions

MiPACS Storage Server is a scalable, user-friendly, fast, modular and affordable PACS image archive. Based on the industry’s leading medical imaging engine from LEAD Technologies, MiPACS Storage Server is designed to work as the heart of a PACS (Patient Archive and Communication System), as well as a central repository for radiology and medical DICOM images and objects.

Built with a philosophy that encompasses a simple, yet practical design, Medicor Imaging has created a product with capabilities and features that exceed those of many other leading PACS servers, but is available at a fraction of the cost. Its affordable pricing model makes it perfect as a starting point for small to medium-size facilities trying to move to a digital environment.

MiPACS Storage Server is remarkably easy to deploy and maintain within any IT environment and provides an ideal way of reducing ongoing PACS administration costs. It is simple to learn, install, configure, to use and to service!

MiPACS Storage Server provides just the right functionality to serve imaging workflow and access control requirement (HIPPA). It is the best option for your budget when introducing digital imaging to medical practice to increase efficiency, productivity and user satisfaction.

Key Features and Benefits:

• AFFORDABLE
• SCALABLE
• RELIABLE
• EASY TO CONFIGURE
  AND MAINTAIN
• NON-PROPRIETARY
• SECURE
• HIPAA COMPLIANT
• MULTI-SITE SERVERS
• FAST
• MAXIMUM CONNECTIVITY
• PRIVATE TAGS
• SUPPORTS ALL DICOM
  STORAGE OBJECTS
• BUILT-IN DEBUGGING TOOLS
• DICOM MEDIA SUPPORT
• USER VALIDATION
• DICOM STORAGE COMMITMENT

MiPACS Storage Server Features and Benefits

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AFFORDABLE - MiPACS Storage server makes the dream of an affordable DICOM image archive reality. With a pricing model that fits the budget of any hospital or imaging center, MiPACS is the best option available. Various leasing options are also available for the server.

SCALABLE – MiPACS can meet the demands of any sized facility whether you are a single practitioner, an imaging center, a radiology department or a multi-facility institution. A facility can start with a single MIPACS Storage Server and upgrade to multi-servers and add more user licenses as their requirements grow.

RELIABLE – With MiPACS you have the ability to configure multiple servers in a network load-balanced cluster, which provides a robust, fail-over solution. In some sites, MiPACS Storage Server was able to deliver 99.9% uptime.

EASY TO CONFIGURE AND MAINTAIN - MiPACS Storage Server installation procedure is almost completely automated and is very fast and easy to complete. The server also comes with comprehensive easy-to-follow manuals. MiPACS is available to run as a service requiring no user interaction. Configuration and access to activity information take place through the user-friendly service manager interface. It's so intuitive the user can learn to navigate it in minutes!

NON-PROPRIETARY - Institutions are not locked into proprietary databases. They have full control of their data since MiPACS Storage server uses Microsoft SQL database and stores the images separately as DICOM media format to a storage device.

SECURE - Users have the option to encrypt images as well as an entire database. MiPACS Storage Server can also communicate with DICOM clients and other DICOM servers over the internet using 128-bit encryption as defined by the DICOM protocol. System administrators can control who can access user information and images.

HIPAA COMPLIANT - MiPACS Storage Server can be configured to only allow clients with a certain IP, hostname or subnet mask to communicate with the server. It also supports access control to image and patient information and extensive user activity logging.

MULTI-SITE SERVERS - MiPACS Storage server supports rule-based auto-forwarding of images. For example, a satellite site server can forward all images to a central server for permanent archiving.

FAST - Supports lossy and lossless DICOM compression including JPEG2000. Compression helps reduce bandwidth and storage requirements. Also supports relational query and retrieve service for faster processing.

MAXIMUM CONNECTIVITY - MiPACS Storage Server's unique on-the-fly data conversion of images into different compression formats facilitates connectivity with different applications. This allows applications to view images that are stored as compressed on the server, when it does not have support for compression.

PRIVATE TAGS - MiPACS Storage Server is a Type 2 Server, meaning it will store all private tags created by other applications as is, and thus maintaining the integrity of the data.

SUPPORTS ALL DICOM STORAGE OBJECTS - MiPACS supports all Storage SOP classes defined in the DICOM 2003 updated standard.

BUILT-IN DEBUGGING TOOLS - Includes extensive logging options for tracking of DICOM communication problems.

DICOM MEDIA SUPPORT - Can directly import images from DICOM Media and also can export selected studies to a folder in DICOM removable media format.

USER VALIDATION - MiPACS Storage Server can be set to verify AE titles and IP address or host name before giving access. System administrator can also control what station can query ,store or retrieve images.

DICOM STORAGE COMMITMENT - This DICOM service a key part of “Image Management” because it shifts the responsibility for maintaining and storing the images from the modality, to the PACS archive. MiPACS Storage Server’s support of storage commitment allows modality stations to automatically free up and reuse valuable local disk space without user interaction.