WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--June 11, 2003-- CaminoSoft Corp. CMSF, leading
provider of Storage Management and High
Availability solutions, today announced the
introduction of MEDISTARTM,
the company's Medical Enterprise Document and
Image Storage, Archiving, and Retrieval System. CaminoSoft's
MEDISTAR System offers healthcare providers and
medical imaging facilities a cost-effective way
to retain digital images and documents online,
then automatically migrate infrequently accessed
files to nearline and/or offline storage.
According to
Steve Crosson, chief executive officer at
CaminoSoft, "Because of the substantial amount
of storage needed to retain all images online --
measured weekly in gigabytes (GB) and annually
in terabytes (TB) -- managers of hospitals and
radiology centers are constrained by their PACS
equipment to provide image access for a few days
and then have to output the images to film for
archiving in an offsite location."
Crosson
continued, "Expanding the storage of PACS
equipment does not address the fact that the
subsequent recall of files typically diminishes
rapidly over time. Further, the attendant costs
of using and maintaining film and the slow
response time when record access is required
(typically hours) can adversely affect patient
care and treatment. MEDISTAR's value
propositions address these important operational
issues. For those hospitals which do not have a
PACS System, the MEDISTAR solution provides them
with an immediate return of investment by
allowing the capture, storage and retrieval of
DICOM compatible images directly from the
modalities (e.g., CT, RF, MR, Ultrasound,
etc.)."
MEDISTAR has
been developed by CaminoSoft with the proof of
concept and testing performed at Mission
Community Hospital, a newly built 150 bed acute
care facility in Panorama City, Calif. Currently
installed in a pilot configuration at Mission
Community Hospital, MEDISTAR offers these key
advantages:
- Integrates with
existing or newly acquired PACS resources and
works seamlessly in PACS-less environments
directly with the digital modalities to
capture, store, and archive image data
- Associates patient
image and document Electronic Medical Records
(EMRs): radiology, admissions information,
patient insurance card, medication orders, lab
work, other scanned images and results, and
physician-annotated text notes
- Maintains all
relevant files online---at least one year or
longer, if required---and automatically
migrating infrequently accessed data to
nearline and offline storage per system
administrator-defined policies
- Searches and rapidly
locates specific patient records in nearline
and/or offline storage without demigrating
data back to online storage resources until
files are "opened"
- Retrieves requested
files from nearline storage in virtual
realtime (typically seconds) and from offline
storage in the time needed to load media into
an autochanger (typically minutes)
- Reduces operational
costs, including film materials and labor
associated with managing, retrieving, and
inventorying film, while improving healthcare
delivery, performance, and efficiency
Andre
Henderson, director of information systems at
Mission Community Hospital, stated: "MEDISTAR
has provided our facility with a uniform,
cost-effective architecture for storing and
managing our files digitally, including
radiology images, scanned photographs,
documents, and email archives. The system is
scaleable and easy to install and maintain. Our
annual film expenditure alone was more than
enough to justify the ROI. With the elimination
of printing and archiving film, now our director
of radiology and physicians have online access
to all images."
"We were always
intimidated by high-priced PACS solutions and
therefore never planned for their acquisition,"
said Bill Daniel, chief executive officer at
Mission Community Hospital. "However, after
watching the demonstration of CaminoSoft's pilot
MEDISTAR System at our hospital, I am looking
forward to its full deployment. This will enable
us to have more of the required and appropriate
information available online for our care
personnel and medical staff. The reduction in
film costs alone more than pays for this
solution, and we expect to realize substantially
improved services relative to access of patient
information, specifically in operations and
provision of care."
According to
Matt Charms, MD, of Tower Imaging Medical Group
in Los Angeles, Calif., (and Tower Imaging's
Medical Director for Imaging at Mission
Community Hospital), "I was quite impressed with
the demonstration of the CaminoSoft MEDISTAR
pilot at Mission Community Hospital. I expect
that the production system will substantially
improve the availability of image viewing
through its online access for physicians while
eliminating the need to print and store films."
About
CaminoSoft Corp.
CaminoSoft is a
creator of operating software solutions designed
to store and manage vast quantities of critical
data created in a wide range of businesses and
organizations, including healthcare/medical,
finance and banking, education, and federal,
state, and local government. The company offers
multi-tiered hierarchical storage management and
high availability solutions for computer
server-based networks. CaminoSoft's Intelligent
Capacity ManagementTM
solutions provide increased efficiencies for an
organization's data storage and network
infrastructure and are available for Novell
NetWare and Microsoft Windows 2000 operating
systems.
Contact
Information:
Richard Krueger
600 Hampshire Road, Suite 105
Westlake Village, CA 91361
Phone:805/370-3100 ext. 242
Fax: 805/370-3200
