CoActiv Offers EXAM-Vault® as a DICOM Archive Solution

CoActiv Medical of Ridgefield, CT, a software and systems provider to hospitals and imaging centers, now offers its digital archive and storage solution, EXAM-Vault®, as a separate and stand-alone DICOM storage option. This unique and innovative Quad-Redundant" system enables hospitals, imaging centers and private specialty practices to seamlessly integrate CoActivs HIPAA compliant and always on-line storage and recovery solution, CoActiv EXAM-Vault®, to an existing PACS or directly to DICOM modalities.

Ridgefield, CT (PRWEB) June 5, 2005 -- CoActiv Medical of Ridgefield, CT, a software and systems provider to hospitals and imaging centers, now offers its digital archive and storage solution, EXAM-Vault®, as a separate and stand-alone DICOM storage option. This unique and innovative Quad-Redundant" system enables hospitals, imaging centers and private specialty practices to seamlessly integrate CoActivs HIPAA compliant and always on-line storage and recovery solution, CoActiv EXAM-Vault®, to an existing PACS or directly to DICOM modalities.

CoActiv EXAM-Vault® is an affordable DICOM storage solution for hospitals and imaging centers looking to upgrade their existing archive structure without revamping their entire PACS enterprise, and it is also ideal for a healthcare facility looking to securely store DICOM images without installing a full PACS solution. We can integrate EXAM-Vault® with most PACS because it was designed to work seamlessly with any modality or application that is capable of performing a DICOM Store function," states Ed Heere, President of CoActiv Medical. EXAM-Vault® will save time, money and the worry of secure archiving while increasing speed and functionality."

Using a unique Quad-Redundant" storage technique, CoActiv EXAM-Vault® automatically and securely saves every exam in four locations, three of which are always on-line and immediately accessible. We are so convinced that EXAM-Vault® is the most robust, secure and redundant medical imaging archive available in the healthcare industry that we are prepared to back it up with the industrys only 100% Up-Time SLA (Service Level Agreement)," states Mr. Heere. In fact, not a single EXAM-Vault customer has had a second of archive down time since we began offering this service almost two years ago."

The CoActiv Quad-Redundant" storage sequence is outlined here:
1. As soon as an exam is received from any DICOM compliant modality, it is first stored on-line and on-site at the local facility on a temporary basis. This local storage is available in various sizes from 160-gigabytes up to hundreds of terabytes, determined by particular client requirements.

2. Then the exam is instantly, and automatically, copied to the primary data center archive, which is also stored on-line and always available for instant recall.

3. The exam is then simultaneously mirrored to a redundant CoActiv archive site where it is also stored on-line and immediately available.

4. And finally, all exams are permanently archived to duplicate digital removable media (DVDs), with one copy stored at the data center and the other forwarded to the client.

The secure archive centers are housed in class A data centers containing the latest in multi-terabyte RAID storage and are outfitted with redundant storage, power, Internet connectivity and cooling. These archive centers are manned by qualified technical staff on a 7x24 basis and the archive servers are automatically monitored by CoActiv proprietary dual-level monitoring software that reports system health-checks" every few minutes on all server and storage array hardware and system conditions-resulting in a real-time monitoring and alerting system that actually monitors the monitors". This multi-layered redundant checking assures the finest in pro-active service by the CoActiv support team, who are instantly notified should any system exceed set performance parameters.

EXAM-Vault® is part of CoActivs full EXAM-PACS® solution that consists of modular components that can be incrementally installed on a facilities own time schedule and budget. Other EXAM-PACS modules include CoActiv EXAM-Filer® , a CD burning solution that creates self-contained, study CDs accessible from any CD or DVD equipped Windows PC, and CoActiv EXAM-Sender® , an innovative, patent pending, web-based application that instantly transmits exams, voice clips, reports and other information to referring doctors. These components, combined with the CoActiv Diagnostic Workstation, complete the full solution CoActiv EXAM-PACS®.

About CoActiv
CoActiv Medical Business Solutions, a healthcare digital imaging solution provider headquartered in Ridgefield, CT, provides a complete line of PACS, tele-radiology and DICOM utilities and services. Through their EXAM-PACS® solution, CoActiv provides an affordable but powerful PACS, easily scalable from small single sites to enterprise installations. CoActiv has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market EXAM-PACS® to the medical field and has recently become one of the first PACS providers to receive FDA clearance for Primary Digital Mammography PACS reading. CoActiv, founded in 2002 by the management of its affiliate company, AMSYS Inc., is backed by nearly twenty years of broad corporate experience in healthcare IT solutions.

Contact CoActiv toll-free at 877-COACTIV (262-2848); www.coactiv.com.

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