Tuesday, May 15, 2007
PACS Vendors think PACS-neutral Archive is crazy idea
Tim Gee of Medical Connectivity wrote an interesting blog the other day that picks up on my suggestion to make the Disaster Recovery copy a DICOM copy. He mentioned that few if any PACS vendors will want to talk about such a crazy idea. Of course not! Vendor lock-in is a popular marketing strategy.
I think it's time to start talking to any vendor that is positioning their company as a DICOM Archive provider. Can they assist with the data migration project and guarantee connectivity to both the current and future PACS subsystems? Can they price their software license well under a dollar per study? Building an exact duplicate back-up storage solution for the existing PACS is just a matter of hardware. Building a DICOM back-up storage solution that elimintes the need for future data migrations is certainly worth something on top of the cost of the hardware, but what exactly should that premium be? Something well under a buck a study would make the concept of the DICOM Disaster Recovery solution very attractive.
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