Frost & Sullivan: Maximizing return on investments in medical imaging IT with IBM's Grid Medical Archive Solution

The world of medical imaging has changed dramatically over the last decade. The pace of technological change has been truly breathtaking. The transition from analog to digital image acquisition is now in full swing, and in modalities, such as CT and MRI, it is nearly universal. This dramatic change in the medical imaging world has brought with it serious ramifications for medical imaging economics. It used to be the case that medical image management costs were predictable, since their relationship with the growth in procedure volumes was linear. As the volume of images increased, the amount of floor space and dedicated personnel required for film management grew by the same proportion.

However, in the realm of picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), which are often distributed across multiple physical locations, a strictly linear relationship between growth in image output and growth in IT investment no longer applies. In geographically distributed digital environments, it is not possible to keep adding storage indefinitely without seriously compromising the system's performance.

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