In the fast-paced world of healthcare, efficient data management is crucial. DICOM routing plays a crucial role in efficiently and seamlessly transferring medical imaging data. DataFirst ensures that healthcare professionals have timely access to critical information.
DataFirst’s Silverback® Enterprise Workflow Engine offers advanced solutions for DICOM routing and PACS migration. These solutions are designed to enhance data interoperability and streamline healthcare operations. Healthcare data migration is essential for transitioning to new systems without losing valuable information. Silverback® provides robust tools to ensure data integrity and accessibility during these transitions. With Silverback®, healthcare providers can automate complex workflows, reducing manual errors and improving efficiency. This leads to better patient care and optimized healthcare operations. Explore how DataFirst’s innovative solutions can future-proof your healthcare imaging systems.
Understanding DICOM Routing in Healthcare IT
DICOM routing serves as the backbone of efficient medical imaging communication. It enables the transmission of images and related data across varied systems. With the growing demand for imaging data accessibility, DICOM routing has never been more critical. Healthcare IT relies heavily on DICOM routing for streamlined operations. It ensures that imaging data moves smoothly between radiology departments, clinics, and hospitals. This flow is essential for timely diagnosis and treatment plans.
Key advantages of DICOM routing include:
Enhancing the interoperability between disparate imaging systems.
Facilitating real-time access to medical imaging across departments.
Reducing latency and improving data transfer accuracy.
In today’s healthcare environments, manual data transfer poses risks of errors. DICOM routing automates these processes, mitigating potential mishaps. This automation not only saves time but also significantly improves data accuracy.
Furthermore, effective DICOM routing optimizes workflows and enhances patient outcomes. By ensuring prompt access to imaging data, healthcare professionals are better equipped to make informed decisions.
The Importance of PACS Migration and Healthcare Data Migration
PACS migration plays a crucial role in modernizing healthcare IT infrastructures. Transitioning to advanced systems can ensure continued access to essential imaging resources. This process minimizes potential disruptions and enhances patient care. Healthcare data migration is equally important. It involves moving data to new systems without compromising its integrity. This is vital for maintaining up-to-date patient records and ensuring continuity of care.
Key reasons for considering migration:
Updating systems to improve performance and reliability.
Ensuring compliance with the latest healthcare standards.
Enhancing scalability for growing healthcare facilities.
Effective migration safeguards against data loss and corruption. It allows healthcare organizations to leverage new technologies seamlessly. Both PACS and broader data migration are foundational for future-proofing healthcare IT systems. They ensure that hospitals and clinics remain competitive while maintaining high standards of care.
Introducing DataFirst and the Silverback® Workflow Engine
DataFirst stands at the forefront of healthcare IT innovation, offering tailored solutions for various medical imaging needs. Their expertise is pivotal in enhancing healthcare data management. The Silverback® Enterprise Workflow Engine is a cornerstone of their offerings. It integrates seamlessly with existing systems to facilitate efficient data management. This platform is designed to handle complex routing and migration tasks.
Silverback® offers robust functionality, ensuring that healthcare providers can manage data effectively. Its capabilities support efficient workflow automation and interoperability. As a result, this engine helps healthcare organizations maintain high standards while optimizing operational efficiency. DataFirst’s emphasis on innovation ensures the IT solutions meet the evolving demands of the healthcare industry.
Key Features of Silverback® for DICOM Routing and Migration
Silverback® offers exceptional DICOM routing capabilities, vital for seamless data transfer. This engine optimizes image flow across systems, improving access and efficiency. Its robust design ensures consistent performance, even under high data volumes.
Key features include:
Multi-vendor interoperability – seamless integration across PACS, VNAs, EHRs, and imaging systems.
Scalable performance – optimized to handle everything from small facilities to high-volume enterprise networks.
Seamless PACS migration – maintains data integrity and continuity with minimal disruption to clinical operations.
Regulatory compliance & security – HIPAA, GDPR, Astra A+, and NHS DSPT certified for peace of mind.
Additionally, Silverback® excels in PACS migration, facilitating transitions with minimal disruption. It maintains data integrity, a critical aspect for healthcare providers. This seamless migration ensures continuity and accessibility of patient records.
Silverback® supports complex workflow automation, reducing manual errors. It streamlines operations, allowing professionals more time for critical tasks. Its automation capabilities enhance overall healthcare delivery. Furthermore, the engine ensures compliance with data standards, supporting both on-premises and cloud-based systems. Its flexibility aligns with diverse IT infrastructures. Silverback® also provides insightful analytics, aiding in informed decision-making for healthcare organizations.
In summary, Silverback® empowers healthcare providers with sophisticated features for effective data management. Its integration enhances patient care and operational efficiency.
How Silverback® Streamlines Workflow Automation and Interoperability
Silverback® revolutionizes workflow automation in healthcare by reducing manual intervention. This boosts efficiency and decreases the likelihood of human errors. Automated processes enable healthcare providers to focus on delivering high-quality patient care.
Interoperability is crucial in healthcare IT. Silverback® excels in this by enhancing communication between various medical imaging systems. It provides real-time data sharing, which is vital for accurate diagnostics and treatment planning.
Key benefits of Silverback® for interoperability and workflow automation include:
Cross-platform compatibility – integrates effortlessly with PACS, VNA, EHR, and other imaging systems.
Real-time data access – ensures providers and radiologists get the right information exactly when they need it.
Data normalization and integrity checks – standardize information for consistent use across systems.
Scalable architecture – grows with your enterprise imaging needs, from a single site to large health networks.
These features foster a collaborative environment where information flows seamlessly across departments. Silverback® ensures that healthcare providers can access data when needed, ultimately improving patient outcomes. Its seamless integration into existing systems fosters continuity and operational excellence.
Ensuring Data Security, Compliance, and Integrity During Migration
At DataFirst, protecting patient data is non-negotiable. Silverback® Workflow Orchestrator was built with security at its core, delivering advanced safeguards to keep sensitive healthcare information safe during every stage of migration.
DataFirst’s commitment to security is validated by industry-leading certifications. Achieving Astra A+ Security and NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) certifications demonstrates our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of protection, compliance, and trust.
Silverback® provides:
End-to-end encryption for all data transfers
Strict adherence to HIPAA, GDPR, NHS, and other regulatory frameworks
Comprehensive data integrity checks to ensure accuracy and consistency
Certified security practices proven through Astra and NHS DSPT audits
By combining robust technology with verified security standards, Silverback® ensures every migration is secure, compliant, and uncompromising in data integrity. This provides healthcare organizations—and their patients—with complete confidence in the protection of their most sensitive information.
Real-World Benefits for Healthcare Providers
Healthcare providers reap significant benefits from using Silverback® for DICOM routing and migration. These enhancements lead to improved operational efficiency and better patient care. Silverback® helps streamline processes, enabling healthcare facilities to focus on delivering quality services.
Key benefits include:
Reduced downtime and disruptions during migrations
Real-time access to medical imaging across departments
Enhanced data interoperability and workflow automation
These advantages not only optimize healthcare delivery but also boost patient satisfaction. By implementing Silverback®, healthcare providers can ensure a seamless transition to advanced imaging systems. This positions them well for growth and innovation in medical technology.
Why Choose DataFirst for DICOM Solutions?
DataFirst stands out for its commitment to tailored DICOM solutions. Their expertise ensures seamless integration with existing healthcare IT infrastructure. This makes them a preferred choice in the industry.
Choose DataFirst for:
Customizable solutions to meet unique needs
Proven track record of seamless system integrations
User-friendly and easy-to-implement designs
By opting for DataFirst, healthcare providers gain a partner dedicated to enhancing diagnostic accuracy and efficiency through innovative imaging solutions.
Conclusion: Future-Proofing Healthcare Imaging with Silverback®
DataFirst’s Silverback® empowers healthcare providers to advance their imaging processes. By offering robust DICOM routing and migration, it ensures systems are up-to-date, enhancing patient care and operational efficiency now and in the future.
DataFirst empowers healthcare organizations with over 25 years of proven leadership in enterprise imaging data migration and the industry’s most advanced DICOM routing solution — Silverback® — built to eliminate bottlenecks, accelerate workflows, and deliver image data exactly where it’s needed, when it’s needed. DataFirst, founded in 1990 by healthcare specialists and military veterans, has established itself as a leader in healthcare information technology by addressing complex imaging data challenges and spearheading interoperability initiatives across the healthcare enterprise.
With over 25 years of experience, DataFirst has successfully migrated more than 2 billion medical imaging studies across 100+ health systems. At the core of DataFirst’s offerings is Silverback®, an enterprise-grade workflow and migration engine designed to tackle the toughest interoperability challenges in healthcare. Silverback® transcends traditional DICOM routers by providing intelligent workflow solutions that streamline the identification, distribution, and presentation of imaging data.
The Silverback® Enterprise Workflow Engine is a dynamic DICOM router that intelligently distributes studies throughout the enterprise, orchestrating images across multiple sites and vendors through customized logic rules. It is designed to solve complex workflow requirements. This solution offers advanced flexibility in image archiving, cloud integration, and disaster recovery options, enabling organizations to scale their image management capabilities as needed. Silverback® is the most comprehensive engine, unifying and supporting the entire imaging network with a full suite of interoperability services.
It integrates a robust HL7 engine, enabling intelligent prefetch workflows and seamless data distribution across the entire enterprise. By continually evolving and focusing on customer service and technological innovation, DataFirst empowers healthcare organizations to customize solutions that meet their unique needs and business objectives, ensuring efficient and secure management of medical imaging data.
The Challenge of Scale
As a global leader in teleradiology, Everlight handles an immense volume of DICOM data daily. This data must be distributed, accessed, and processed at lightning speed to ensure the timely delivery of radiology insights to clinicians worldwide. However, as Everlight scaled, their existing systems were stressed.
“Our environment was reaching scale limitations,” Donaldson explains in the video. “We weren’t able to load balance the distribution of DICOM data into our core imaging technology very well.”
It was clear Everlight needed more than just a fix—they needed a revolutionary solution to maintain their high standards of service while accommodating exponential growth.
Enter DataFirst and Silverback®
Everlight found their answer in DataFirst and their flagship product, the Silverback® Workflow Engine. Donaldson highlights the pivotal role this technology played:
“Silverback® was the right approach for us. It unlocked infinitely more scalability for our business,” Donaldson shares. “It’s now the central cog, the mechanism handling all our DICOM data securely and at lightning speed.”
By centralizing and optimizing the handling of DICOM workflows, Silverback® eliminated bottlenecks and allowed Everlight to scale without compromise. This newfound capability not only enhanced operational efficiency but also ensured that Everlight could continue delivering on its commitment to provide top-tier teleradiology services globally.
A Partnership Built on Collaboration
Donaldson underscores the collaborative nature of Everlight’s relationship with DataFirst. The team at DataFirst didn’t just deliver a product; they tailored the Silverback® technology to meet Everlight’s specific needs.
“They really shaped the solution for us,” says Donaldson. “Their approach wasn’t about selling us a one-size-fits-all solution. They listened to our challenges and helped us gain better control over our DICOM workflows.”
This level of customization and understanding proved to be a game-changer, allowing Everlight to future-proof their operations while maintaining the flexibility to adapt to evolving demands.
The Future of Teleradiology
For Everlight, the partnership with DataFirst and the implementation of Silverback® have paved the way for continued leadership in teleradiology. With Silverback® enabling secure, high-speed data handling, Everlight is well-positioned to meet the growing demands of the healthcare industry.
Donaldson’s message in the video is clear: innovation and collaboration are at the heart of Everlight’s success. By leveraging cutting-edge technology and forming strong partnerships, they have turned challenges into opportunities, setting a new benchmark for teleradiology worldwide.
Conclusion
The insights shared by Andy Donaldson emphasize the transformative impact of the Everlight-DataFirst partnership. This collaboration exemplifies how the right technology, paired with a tailored approach, can drive growth and innovation in even the most complex industries.
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Founded in 1990 by healthcare specialists and military veterans, DataFirst has become a recognized leader in healthcare information technology for its ability to solve imaging data challenges and implement interoperability initiatives across the healthcare enterprise.
With a focus on customer service and technology innovation, the company has continued to evolve from a migration service provider to a leading-edge software developer. As the most trusted migration partner for the largest imaging solution manufacturers, DataFirst completes over 250 migration projects annually. This experience has created the foundation for the development and commercialization of the most robust imaging management platform in the industry today, Silverback®.
An enterprise-grade workflow and migration engine, Silverback® is designed to tackle the toughest interoperability challenges in healthcare. Offering the tools to create, supplement and enhance workflows, the platform enables organizations to customize a solution for your unique requirements and business objectives.
With experience in more than 50% of the hospitals across the country, the company continues to support all projects with a team based entirely in the U.S. DataFirst continues to grow the dedicated R&D team based in Florida with the talent and resources needed to deliver innovation and next-generation solutions. For over 30 years, the company has set a standard of excellence to support our clinical and IT specialists in their mission to deliver world-class healthcare.
Enterprise Imaging Interoperability: Why It’s Time to Replace Your DICOM Router
DataFirst, a leader in information technology, hosted a free, live webinar to discuss the future of enterprise imaging interoperability and DICOM routing solutions for healthcare organizations and technologists. In this webinar, Beau Jones, CEO, and Robert Maskulayk, COO, both of DataFirst give a deep dive into the following topics:
Imaging interoperability
Multi-Vendor/Network Routing
Custom Prefetch
New Clinic/Practice Acquisition
AI Integration
SCO – BTO Conversion
Webinar Highlights
Start – 6:20 – Opening Remarks and Enterprise Imaging Operability Featuring Beau Jones, CEO of DataFirst
6:21 – 9:50 – The Evolution of a Company and a Platform
9:51 – 14:50 – Silverback® in Action
14:53 – 19:39 – Workflow Example #1 – Multi-Vendor/Network Routing Featuring Robert Maskulayk, COO of DataFirst.
19:41 – 28:36 – Workflow Example #2 – Custom Prefetch
28:40 – 35:39 – Workflow Example #3 – New Clinic/Practice Acquisition
36:01 – 39:08 – Workflow Example #4 – AI Integration
Enterprise Imaging Interoperability: Why It’s Time to Replace Your DICOM Router
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As organizations continue to face unprecedented difficulties in interoperability, Beau Jones will discuss the future of enterprise imaging interoperability as a transition from standard routing solutions to customized and adaptable workflow engines. He will also preview strategies and solutions that empower organizations to customize their workflows across the imaging enterprise.
“Our goal is to offer practical use cases to illustrate both real challenges and real solutions (in this webinar).” – Beau Jones, CEO of DataFirst.
As organizations continue to face unprecedented challenges in interoperability, Beau Jones discussed the future of enterprise imaging interoperability, highlighting a transition from standard routing solutions to customized and adaptable workflow engines. He will also preview strategies and solutions that empower organizations to customize their workflows across the imaging enterprise.
“Imaging environments are growing in complexity and have moved beyond the classic boundaries of radiology and cardiology,” remarked Beau Jones, CEO of DataFirst. “Organizations need to be thinking about sophisticated, enterprise-scale tools for managing the growing list of interoperability challenges that they will inevitably encounter,” he added.
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DataFirst brings over 20 years of experience in information technology to the market to help organizations address modern challenges. This webinar is just one of several events ushering in a new era at the company, which seeks to educate the marketplace on its expertise and partnerships with hospital imaging departments and outpatient imaging facilities. DataFirst will have a presence at industry conferences, including a dedicated booth at RSNA 2022.
Institutions frequently face the daunting task of switching to a new PACS vendor or undergoing a major upgrade of their existing PACS system. The go-live phase can be particularly challenging, as it involves reassigning the addresses and destinations of numerous devices simultaneously. This webinar featured Herman Oosterwijk, OTC Consulting and a recognized expert in DICOM and PACS.
This process can be overwhelming and stressful. However, with an intelligent workflow engine, this transition can be as simple as flipping a switch.
Topics Featured
Background: Understanding PACS upgrades and transitions
Infrastructure Changes: What needs to be updated
The Solution: How an intelligent workflow engine/router can streamline the process
Watch today to learn how to simplify your PACS upgrades and replacements.
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ABOUT DATAFIRST
Founded in 1990 by healthcare specialists and military veterans, DataFirst has become a recognized leader in healthcare information technology for its ability to solve imaging data challenges and implement interoperability initiatives across the healthcare enterprise.
With a focus on customer service and technology innovation, the company has continued to evolve from a migration service provider to a leading-edge software developer. As the most trusted migration partner for the largest imaging solution manufacturers, DataFirst completes over 250 migration projects annually. This experience has created the foundation for the development and commercialization of the most robust imaging management platform in the industry today, Silverback®.
An enterprise-grade workflow and migration engine, Silverback® is designed to tackle the toughest interoperability challenges in healthcare. Offering the tools to create, supplement and enhance workflows, the platform enables organizations to customize a solution for your unique requirements and business objectives.
With experience in more than 50% of the hospitals across the country, the company continues to support all projects with a team based entirely in the U.S. DataFirst continues to grow the dedicated R&D team based in Florida with the talent and resources needed to deliver innovation and next-generation solutions. For over 30 years, the company has set a standard of excellence to support our clinical and IT specialists in their mission to deliver world-class healthcare.
DataFirst invites you to a short, interactive webinar delving into the paradigm shift in healthcare imaging informatics, HL7 Integration, and intelligent DICOM routing. During the session, the technology team at DataFirst will review the new, seamless interoperability of the Silverback® Workflow platform that orchestrates the flow of medical images while concurrently integrating pertinent clinical data from various sources via HL7.
By driving the simplified HL7 configuration into one workflow platform, DataFirst empowers customers to efficiently deploy and monitor unique workflows for a holistic and cost-effective view of patient study information. In this webinar, the team will provide an overview of the unique features and impacts of the Silverback® DICOM and HL7 Integration Platform to include:
New Platform architecture that ensures fast and streamlined deployment.
Simplified HL7 message manipulation and auditing
Customization of unique workflows with basic APIs
The Silverback® platform continually evolves, putting intelligence and power under control of the customer. By transcending traditional silos and fostering interoperability, this platform empowers healthcare providers with comprehensive insights, streamlined workflows, and ultimately, enhanced patient information.
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ABOUT DATAFIRST
Founded in 1990 by healthcare specialists and military veterans, DataFirst has become a recognized leader in healthcare information technology for its ability to solve imaging data challenges and implement interoperability initiatives across the healthcare enterprise.
With a focus on customer service and technology innovation, the company has continued to evolve from a migration service provider to a leading-edge software developer. As the most trusted migration partner for the largest imaging solution manufacturers, DataFirst completes over 250 migration projects annually. This experience has created the foundation for the development and commercialization of the most robust imaging management platform in the industry today, Silverback®.
An enterprise-grade workflow and migration engine, Silverback® is designed to tackle the toughest interoperability challenges in healthcare. Offering the tools to create, supplement and enhance workflows, the platform enables organizations to customize a solution for your unique requirements and business objectives.
With experience in more than 50% of the hospitals across the country, the company continues to support all projects with a team based entirely in the U.S. DataFirst continues to grow the dedicated R&D team based in Florida with the talent and resources needed to deliver innovation and next-generation solutions. For over 30 years, the company has set a standard of excellence to support our clinical and IT specialists in their mission to deliver world-class healthcare.
DataFirst invites you to a short, interactive webinar delving into the paradigm shift in healthcare imaging informatics, HL7 Integration, and intelligent DICOM routing. During the session, the technology team at DataFirst will review the new, seamless interoperability of the Silverback® Workflow platform that orchestrates the flow of medical images while concurrently integrating pertinent clinical data from various sources via HL7.
By driving the simplified HL7 configuration into one workflow platform, DataFirst empowers customers to efficiently deploy and monitor unique workflows for a holistic and cost-effective view of patient study information. In this webinar, the team will provide an overview of the unique features and impacts of the Silverback® DICOM and HL7 Integration Platform to include:
New Platform architecture that ensures fast and streamlined deployment
Full-feature, intuitive UI that enables users to configure and map DICOM routing and HL7 data elements under the same web-based structure and location
Simplified HL7 message manipulation and auditing
Customization of unique workflows with basic APIs
The Silverback® platform continually evolves, putting intelligence and power under the control of the customer. By transcending traditional silos and fostering interoperability, this platform empowers healthcare providers with comprehensive insights, streamlined workflows, and ultimately, enhanced patient information.
Founded in 1990 by healthcare specialists and military veterans, DataFirst has become a recognized leader in healthcare information technology for its ability to solve imaging data challenges and implement interoperability initiatives across the healthcare enterprise.
With a focus on customer service and technology innovation, the company has continued to evolve from a migration service provider to a leading-edge software developer. As the most trusted migration partner for the largest imaging solution manufacturers, DataFirst completes over 250 migration projects annually. This experience has created the foundation for the development and commercialization of the most robust imaging management platform in the industry today, Silverback®.
An enterprise-grade workflow and migration engine, Silverback® is designed to tackle the toughest interoperability challenges in healthcare. Offering the tools to create, supplement and enhance workflows, the platform enables organizations to customize a solution for your unique requirements and business objectives.
With experience in more than 50% of the hospitals across the country, the company continues to support all projects with a team based entirely in the U.S. DataFirst continues to grow the dedicated R&D team based in Florida with the talent and resources needed to deliver innovation and next-generation solutions. For over 30 years, the company has set a standard of excellence to support our clinical and IT specialists in their mission to deliver world-class healthcare.
About Everlight Radiology
Since 2006, Everlight Radiology has provided 24/7 reporting expertise and leadership worldwide. With over 600 radiologists, the firm serves hospitals and clinics with specialty, urgent after-hours, routine reading, and reporting services. Everlight deploys the most advanced technology and ensures coverage of all time zones with offices and consultants in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, the US, and Europe.
The Problem
Due to significant business growth, Everlight needed to ensure that increased study volumes across its network would not create bottlenecks and inefficiency. Without an intelligent DICOM workflow engine, high study volumes had the potential to be unbalanced across mod servers, overwhelming some while leaving others idle and underutilized. To complicate a potential solution, the Everlight architecture consisted of both on-prem and cloud infrastructure to support their global operations.
As Everlight began to assess current and future requirements, the team quickly realized that there was no existing solution on the market that met their immediate needs and offered the necessary flexibility to scale with the demands of a growing organization. Everlight required a robust platform and an experienced partner to execute an aggressive strategy centered on innovation, service, and reading expertise.
The Solution
To meet their objectives, Everlight required two key elements: a dynamic platform and a premier partner.
The Selection
The first step involved identifying and selecting a partner with deep experience and cutting-edge technology. After narrowing the potential vendor list, Everlight invited candidates to demonstrate their solutions and participate in a detailed Q&A session. While entering this process as a distant number three in vendor ranking, DataFirst quickly emerged as the clear leader. After interactive discussions involving architecture, connectivity, integration, and development, the team identified DataFirst as the only partner who could immediately deploy a customized solution, provide an extensible platform for future growth, and deliver 24/7 support to this growing enterprise.
“Your team was so responsive and attentive to details. Vendors always talk about this, but never deliver. This is a true partnership!” – Linda Gracie – Everlight Project Manager
The Deployment
In under five weeks, DataFirst developed key features and deployed them for testing and evaluation in the Everlight network. Specifically, the DataFirst team deployed the Silverback® solution to:
Create and track new SOPs, studies, series, and instance-level UIDs for inbound DICOM images so that they can be added and sent directly to the same node later.
Load balance to study and series-level identification.
Deploy HA for sufficient fault/outage tolerance across the entire network.
Accept and route studies with AE or IP mismatch.
Export DICOM objects to S3 in a configurable manner.
For Target Failures: ID and minimize the risk of data loss due to data slowness and loss.
The DataFirst team leveraged the unique ‘plug-in’ architecture of the Silverback® platform to create and deploy several unique workflows. This flexibility and speed ensured Everlight could quickly deploy API calls with their RESTful services and route to Silverback® for notifications and alerts throughout the network.
Looking Forward
The Silverback® platform is designed to strategically meet the future needs of any organization. As Everlight expands through an aggressive strategy of innovation and service, the platform will provide the foundation to scale and adapt, supporting new workflows. Designed for intelligence, the Silverback® platform is the solution to support any imaging enterprise today and tomorrow.
The DataFirst customer testimony video featuring Envision Radiology highlights an impactful partnership that’s transforming the world of medical imaging. DataFirst has joined forces with Envision Radiology to propel their imaging practice to new heights. By collaborating with the best minds in the imaging industry, they’ve harnessed the power of DataFirst’s Silverback® High-Performance Workflow Engine to revolutionize their imaging operations.
In this compelling video, you’ll witness firsthand accounts from Envision Radiology’s team and learn how DataFirst’s expertise and the Silverback® High-Performance Workflow Engine have streamlined their workflow, enhanced efficiency, and elevated the quality of patient care. The testimonial underscores how this collaboration is not only driving growth but also ensuring that Envision Radiology remains at the forefront of cutting-edge medical imaging technology. Witness the success story of DataFirst and Envision Radiology as they continue to make waves in the world of imaging practice and patient care.
DataFirst, founded in 1990 by healthcare specialists and military veterans, has established itself as a leader in healthcare information technology by addressing complex imaging data challenges and spearheading interoperability initiatives across the healthcare enterprise. With over 25 years of experience, DataFirst has successfully migrated more than 2 billion medical imaging studies across 100+ health systems.
At the core of DataFirst’s offerings is Silverback®, an enterprise-grade workflow and migration engine designed to tackle the toughest interoperability challenges in healthcare. Silverback® transcends traditional DICOM routers by providing intelligent workflow solutions that streamline the identification, distribution, and presentation of imaging data.
The Silverback® platform includes:
Silverback® Vue: A dynamic DICOM router that intelligently distributes studies throughout the enterprise, orchestrating images across multiple sites and vendors through customized logic rules.
Silverback® Enterprise: Designed to solve complex workflow requirements, this solution offers advanced flexibility in image archiving, cloud integration, and disaster recovery options, enabling organizations to scale their image management capabilities as needed.
Silverback® Pro: The most comprehensive engine, unifying and supporting the entire imaging network with a full suite of interoperability services. It integrates a robust HL7 engine, allowing for intelligent prefetch workflows and seamless data distribution across the enterprise.
By continually evolving and focusing on customer service and technological innovation, DataFirst empowers healthcare organizations to customize solutions that meet their unique requirements and business objectives, ensuring efficient and secure management of medical imaging data.
About Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta is a global leader in medical imaging and healthcare information technology. With nearly $10B in annual revenue, the company has over 40,000 employees serving healthcare organizations in 150 countries. After 150 years of innovation, Konica continues to develop and deploy cutting edge technology to support primary imaging and advanced clinical decision-making.
The Problem
With double digit growth in the Exa® Enterprise Imaging Software Solution, Konica Minolta needed a partner and dynamic migration platform to seamlessly integrate into their expanding deployment operations. Technically, the team needed to address legacy systems lacking DICOM standards, convoluted private tag structures, low bandwidth, outdated HW and SW support systems, no extracts available, inconsistent patient identifier schema and failing, unsupported source systems. As an operational tool, the software would need to be intuitive to users across many markets, easy to install, update and extensible as the Exa® platform evolved over the years.
The Solution
With the Silverback® Migration Engine, the Konica team has a turnkey migration solution to ensure that legacy data is efficiently cleaned and moved to the Exa® platform. After a few short training sessions with Datafirst engineers, the Konica team now quickly deploys the migration engine in new environments to migrate millions of studies every year as follows.
Quickly installs Silverback® SW into any environment in less than 30 minutes.
Utilizes a central UI to connect all source and target systems in the network.
Manages, creates, and/or configures Source of Truth(SOT) tables for study reconciliation.
Initializes data integrity and QC tools to match and check both meta and DICOM data.
Manages and monitors the tasks and activities below through a point and click UI.
Tag Management
Set countless logic profiles and conditions.
Create time profiles.
Set compression rules.
Create proprietary tags as needed.
Sets controls to automatically optimize bandwidth resources throughout the network.
Troubleshoots and reconciles study migration through advanced association management tools.
Sets alerts and reports to monitor progress and issues.
“Before our team deployed Silverback®, we struggled with migrations. Once we started to use the Migration Engine, our first pass accuracy soared to over 98% consistently. Silverback® has empowered us with the flexibility and power to tackle any migration challenge in any environment.”
Shaun Barrow – HCIT Systems Engineer Team Leader, Konica Minolta
Looking Ahead
As the size and complexity of these migrations continually expands, the Konica team has recognized the power and flexibility of the platform. The Datafirst development team is committed to supporting this growth by consistently adding new features and functions based on direct feedback from both users and management. Built for flexibility and extensibility, the Silverback platform will continue to evolve to support the unique needs of the customer.
Founded in 1990 by healthcare specialists and military veterans, DataFirst has become a recognized leader in healthcare information technology for its ability to solve imaging data challenges and implement interoperability initiatives across the healthcare enterprise.
With a focus on customer service and technology innovation, the company has continued to evolve from a migration service provider to a leading-edge software developer. As the most trusted migration partner for the largest imaging solution manufacturers, DataFirst completes over 250 migration projects annually. This experience has created the foundation for the development and commercialization of the most robust imaging management platform in the industry today, Silverback®.
An enterprise-grade workflow and migration engine, Silverback® is designed to tackle the toughest interoperability challenges in healthcare. Offering the tools to create, supplement and enhance workflows, the platform enables organizations to customize a solution for your unique requirements and business objectives.
With experience in more than 50% of the hospitals across the country, the company continues to support all projects with a team based entirely in the U.S. DataFirst continues to grow the dedicated R&D team based in Florida with the talent and resources needed to deliver innovation and next-generation solutions. For over 30 years, the company has set a standard of excellence to support our clinical and IT specialists in their mission to deliver world-class healthcare.
About Inova Health System
As Northern Virginia’s largest non-profit healthcare provider, Inova Health System’s 20,000 team members service more than two million patient visits annually. The INOVA care network comprises 7 hospitals, as well as numerous specialty and urgent care clinics.
The Problem
Inova Health System needed an intelligent study distribution solution to support and enable the full functionality of their new PACS system. The team requested a dynamic router to address the complexity of connecting legacy source systems and ensuring seamless workflow in 7 hospitals, an independent Imaging Center, and a centralized data center. Writing individual scripts to code countless workflow requirements was not an option for a project of this scale. In scoping the solution, the IT team encountered significant syntax issues preventing PACS ingestion from existing sources. Incomplete and non-standard DICOM data prevented clean Transfer Syntax negotiation resulting in incomplete, missing and dirty data at the destination for multiple SOP Classes.
The Solution
With the Silverback® Workflow Engine positioned between the modalities and target PACS and VNA, Inova now has a centralized, intelligent workflow engine to monitor and configure their imaging network at any time from any place. Leveraging intelligent and customizable tools within the platform, the team:
Set customized logic profiles for image distribution to cloud PACS and data center based VNA.
Configured HA within the central data center to support on-premise operations and mitigate bandwidth issues.
Set custom alerts and reports to track network performance.
Configured storage at each hospital to account for different workflows and volumes.
Set compression protocols by modality to ensure optimized network resources in transmission.
Customized a central dashboard to view and analyze all sites and systems from modality to the cloud.
With the DataFirst dedicated project team, the entire initiative was scoped, configured, installed, tested, and put into production in less than two months.
“With Silverback®, we now have a dynamic solution to manage and monitor study distribution throughout our imaging network. From design to deployment, the DataFirst team provided us with the expertise and support to achieve all our objectives and timelines.”
Lonnie Jano – Senior Systems Analyst, INOVA Health Systems
Looking Ahead
Beyond customized image distribution and failover capabilities, the IT team can leverage this dynamic asset for clinical efficiencies in prefetch, Q/C and short-term or long-term archiving. Strategically, the platform contains the industry-leading migration engine to support future acquisitions and infrastructure upgrade initiatives. Designed for intelligence and scale, the Silverback® platform is the solution to support any imaging enterprise today and tomorrow.
Founded in 1990 by healthcare specialists and military veterans, DataFirst has become a recognized leader in healthcare information technology for its ability to solve imaging data challenges and implement interoperability initiatives across the healthcare enterprise.
With a focus on customer service and technology innovation, the company has continued to evolve from a migration service provider to a leading-edge software developer. As the most trusted migration partner for the largest imaging solution manufacturers, DataFirst completes over 250 migration projects annually. This experience has created the foundation for the development and commercialization of the most robust imaging management platform in the industry today, Silverback®.
An enterprise-grade workflow and migration engine, Silverback® is designed to tackle the toughest interoperability challenges in healthcare. Offering the tools to create, supplement and enhance workflows, the platform enables organizations to customize a solution for your unique requirements and business objectives.
With experience in more than 50% of the hospitals across the country, the company continues to support all projects with a team based entirely in the U.S. DataFirst continues to grow the dedicated R&D team based in Florida with the talent and resources needed to deliver innovation and next-generation solutions. For over 30 years, the company has set a standard of excellence to support our clinical and IT specialists in their mission to deliver world-class healthcare.
