Options For Using The ImageGrid As A Dicom Router

The Candelis ImageGrid is a wonderful PACS appliance used by a variety of medical facilities.  The ImageGrid can also be used as a dicom router in your medical office as well.  A router lets your digital imaging equipment work together, allowing you to send and receive your digital medical images quickly and efficiently.  

A router helps to keep all the digital medical information flowing smoothly in the ways that you wish.  The information comes from your image acquisition devices, as well as the computer hardware and software that you utilize in your clinical workstations. All the information has to be directed to the appropriate destinations, and without a router in place none of the digital information would be able to accomplish this.

The ImageGrid allows for versatility in routing applications.  You will be able to set the appliance to automatically route digital medical images to an unlimited number of destinations.  These can be located on a local area network, a wide area network, a virtual private network or a secure location online.  Rule-based routing is also enabled with the ImageGrid.  This allows your equipment to send images to radiologists according to the rules you set, and gives the physicians the capability to read studies onsite or offsite.  Large hospitals have also had good results through using ImageGrid as a router for communication flow among the network, modalities and PACS systems.  

You can also use the ImageGrid as a dicom archive.  This is a big benefit to all medical facilities that must stay in compliance with HIPPA regulations, because with rule-based routing you can easily send your digital image studies to a remote storage location should you need disaster recovery.  The ImageGrid also has ample storage space, which can be expanded as your medical facility has need.  The storage capacity ranges from 1.5 terabytes to 12.75 terabytes, but this can be enlarged to the tens of terabytes as your practice and your digital image storage needs grow.

The ImageGrid also comes with an optional web-based viewer.  This allows you to turn personal computers into diagnostic workstations for dicom viewing through the use of this powerful and multi-functional appliance.  The ImageGrid not only features a viewer, it also allows medical practitioners to utilize modality worklist, modality performed procedure step and departmental scheduling system options as you desire.

ImageGrid is distributed by Dicom Solutions, where you can go to learn more about this impressive router, archive and viewing appliance.

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