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.
The DataFirst Silverback® Web Demo introduces Silverback, a powerful enterprise-grade workflow and migration platform designed to tackle interoperability challenges in healthcare. It showcases the platform’s ability to streamline the identification, distribution, and presentation of imaging data, helping organizations improve efficiency. The demo highlights how Silverback can be customized to meet unique business needs, and it emphasizes DataFirst’s expertise in imaging data management and its role in supporting hospitals and healthcare enterprises across the U.S.
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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.
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.
About SimonMed® Imaging
As the largest outpatient physician radiology group in the country, SimonMed® Imaging covers 11 states with 160 accredited facilities. The more than 200 subspeciality-trained physicians focus on utilizing the latest technology to provide the highest quality diagnostic services and care to referring physicians and patients.
The Problem
SimonMed had acquired several radiology practices within their existing markets. These new practices utilized different, antiquated PACS systems with limited capability and connectivity. Concurrently, SimonMed was in the process of deploying a new PACS and VNA architecture to support its entire network of existing and new practices. The team needed an immediate archiving solution in all new sites to secure and stabilize studies and information. Additionally, all new sites needed immediate workflow integration in routing and prefetching to ensure seamless diagnostic operations across their business during the network upgrade.
The Solution
Leveraging the Silverback® Workflow & Migration Engine, the team delivered a solution to support both tactical and strategic plans for SimonMed’s growing network. The team immediately deployed Silverback® in both a physical and virtual configuration throughout the network to:
Reduce bandwidth constraints by deploying a physical server at each new site.
Immediately migrate studies from old systems to integrate them into business operations.
Efficiently C-Find, Index, and Parse site studies for legal and regulatory compliance.
Configure Silverback® archiving and routing features to support ongoing diagnostic operations.
Quickly create prefetch workflows to integrate new sites with existing networks and operations.
Leverage UI and reporting tools to alert and analyze study activity across the entire SimonMed® network.
“We had multiple requirements to address in our network. We needed the right technology solution and a trusted partner. The Silverback® platform and the DatFirst team provided us the flexibility and expertise to meet the challenges and complexities of our growing business.”
Erik Sober – IT Director
Looking Forward
As SimonMed® continues to expand its network and business operations, the Silverback® platform provides the intelligence and flexibility to enable new custom workflows and efficiencies. With powerful and dynamic tools, the organization is well-positioned to build out services ranging from high availability, anonymization, and AI orchestration. The DataFirst team is a premier partner for today and tomorrow.
About Everlight Radiology
Since 2006, Everlight Radiology has provided 24/7 reporting expertise and leadership across the globe. 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, America, 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 scope current and future requirements, the team quickly realized there was no existing solution in the market to meet their immediate needs and scale with flexibility to the demands of a growing organization. Everlight needed a robust platform with an experienced partner to execute an aggressive strategy built on innovation, service, and reading expertise.
The Solution
To meet their objectives, Everlight needed two things: 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 less than five weeks, DataFirst created key features and deployed them for test and evaluation in the Everlight network. Specifically, the DataFirst team deployed the Silverback® solution to;
Create and track new SOP, study, series, and instance level UID’s for inbound DICOM so images could later be added and sent directly to the same node.
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
Data 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 to support 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.
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
You can access the full webinar on-demand today and get a free trial of the Silverback® workflow engine today!
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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 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 difficulties in interoperability, Beau Jones discussed 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.
“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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ABOUT DATAFIRST, INC.
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.
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.
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After countless hours of analysis, presentations, and negotiations, your organization has pulled the trigger for a new set of systems to support department and enterprise imaging —i.e., a new PACS system, Storage, VNA, etc. As the execution phase begins, you need a plan to migrate from the old source to the new target quickly, efficiently, and cleanly. While a daunting initiative at any level, identifying and aligning the right resources, strategies and technology is the key to success.
With 30 years of experience partnering with organizations to enable seamless interoperability, DataFirst has seen it all. Please join us for a dynamic discussion of the issues and options to consider before your next migration initiative.
In this webinar, the DataFirst team will review and explain the critical elements of planning and executing an image migration of any size, specifically focusing on workflow, speed, and operational efficiency. The following are some of the scenarios to be addressed:
Adding, consolidating, and transitioning multiple archiving systems
Site/clinic acquisitions and integration
Consolidating multiple master lists through migration
Intelligent Pre-Fetching during migrations
Migrating old HW, Tapes, etc. and moving to new systems and storage
Effective strategies and technologies to move hundreds of TBs without disrupting operations
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ABOUT DATAFIRST, INC.
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 HIMSS 2023!
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