Data storage, disaster recovery, and archiving solutions were plentiful on the RSNA floor this year, highlighting the demand from healthcare customers to organize increasing amounts of patient information. Before the show opened, I chatted with Buzz Walker, vice president of marketing and product management at ProStor Systems, about the Boulder, Colo., data storage company, and he provided me with a helpful overview of the booming industry. Healthcare institutions, he said, are trying "to solve the exploding need to store more and more information." His company offers the medical community " a way to replace technology that are becoming obsolete," in a way that is compatible and consistent with what is used already. The ProStor InfiniVault-DICOM is removable disk technology that serves as an intelligent long-term archive for images, as well as patient files, with a shelf life of 30 years. Addressing cost savings, ProStor says its product reduces power consumption by up to 75%, eliminates expensive technology migrations, and protects images with multiple removable copies.
