IT Companies Join Forces to Provide Managed Cloud-Based PACS Services

Allied Telesis, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) and Hosted PACS Solutions (Wellington, FL, USA) announced a technology alliance offering managed cloud-based picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) services to enable the secure transfer and storage of bandwidth-intensive imaging and diagnostic studies.

Allied Telesis is a global provider of secure internet protocol (IP)/Ethernet switching solutions and a leader in the deployment of converged multiplay networks. PACS Solutions is an application service provider (ASP) of digital radiology software.

Leveraging its hospital-grade infrastructure, equipped with managed networking gear from Allied Telesis, Hosted PACS Solutions ensures the timely, effective, and secure delivery of teleradiology information across diverse geographies to help healthcare organizations lower capital expenditures accrued, as compared with implementing a high-cost, complex onsite PACS system.

Hosted PACS Solutions works with the GE Healthcare (Chalfont St. Giles, UK) Centricity PACS-IW web-based software solution for all modalities and healthcare environments to help the continuum of healthcare professionals, from radiologists and referring physicians to authorized clinical users, increase their workflow efficiency. The Allied Telesis-Hosted PACS Solutions partnership marks the first-of-its-kind cloud-based PACS service, hosting this software platform.

"The immediate access to robust patient information, diagnostic and surgical imaging, and clinical data is highly significant in delivering optimized patient care,” said George J. Greene, president, Hosted PACS Solutions. "Having a backbone network powered and managed by Allied Telesis that can cost-effectively and effortlessly support large data and video file transmission across multiple IT environments, while ensuring HIPAA compliance with built-in redundancy, has made Allied Telesis the ideal PACS networking partner.”

Hosted PACS Solutions and Allied Telesis will offer a completely managed PACS solution, including network design, implementation, configuration, and access to Hosted PAC Solutions' Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant data centers, as well as maintenance, remote management and monitoring, and 24/7/365 support. By employing a managed PACS approach, healthcare organizations can focus on serving patients and complying with research needs instead of spending time and resources in on-site management of information technology (IT) equipment and staff.

"Today's healthcare practitioners and clinicians are empowered by digital radiology and its global opportunities including patient-care collaboration, management, and consultation by going 100% filmless,” said Chris Mangrum, vice president, global healthcare IT solutions and architecture, Allied Telesis. "By forming a strategic technology cooperation with Hosted PACS Solutions, we leverage our multiyear experience in securely delivering high-quality, IP-based video and data applications over long distances to serve the technical requirements in next-generation teleradiology.”

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