iVault is an always on-line medical image PACS archive solution that eliminates the bottlenecks of pre-fetching, routing, forwarding, off-line media management and ad-hoc querying. With integrated RIS workflow, iVault provides a single view of images and information to all users across your enterprise. The system scales to millions of studies per year and hundreds of concurrent users across numerous institutions.
A Life-Critical Service: Fault Tolerance
iVault guarantees 99.99% reliability with clustered worklist/database servers, replicated RAID 5 Direct Attached Storage (DAS) units for critical image data, and load-balanced fail-over DICOM servers. iSite Enterprise, iSite Radiology and iVault utilize Philips proprietary Heartbeat technology. On a minute-by-minute basis, iVault monitors all systems and immediately notifies Philips' 24/7/365 Customer Care Center of any issues.
| Features | Benefits |
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Clustered Servers | Offers full redundancy. |
Multiple Storage Servers | Provides extra redundancy and load balancing. |
24/7/365 Heartbeat Monitoring | Human support enables Philips Customer Care to identify and rapidly respond to issues that could potentially impact system performance. |
| Guaranteed 99.99% Uptime | Ensures system is up and running for life-critical care. |
Disaster Recovery
Philips' Disaster Recovery Data Center's primary mission is to provide HIPAA compliant off-site disaster protection for the customer's imaging data. Philips works with its customers to develop a fully integrated Disaster Recovery Plan for the institution such that, in the case of a natural disaster, i.e. flood, fire, etc., a plan is in place to quickly bring the entire distribution system back on-line.
| Features | Benefits |
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Off-Site Disaster Recovery | Enables complete restore of data within 96 hours. |
Worklist Failover | Ensures access to images in case central database server or WAN is not available. |
| Tier 1 Facility | Designed for security and fault tolerance. |
Scales to the Enterprise
iVault is built with intelligent workflow that provides system-wide worklist and workflow management. The system is based on an expandable array of RAID-5 Direct Attached Storage units. This modular architecture provides scalable storage to support the needs of a single stand-alone institution and distributed configurations to support the requirements of fully integrated healthcare networks.
| Features | Benefits |
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Modular Architecture | Enables institution to scale as necessary. |
Least Cost Retrieval | Optimizes bandwidth over WAN. |
DAS or SAN Environment | Allows for flexible network infrastructure based on an institution's storage and processing requirements across the entire enterprise. |