An Rx for Managing Mammography Images and More -
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Published on: 3/27/2006
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Derek Danois, president and CEO of i3 Archive, explained that the original federal project was launched because of concern around the large-scale rollout of digital imaging, especially around mammography.People were getting worried, Danois said, about the burdens all this data would impose on private institutions.
That kind of impact can have a direct impact on patient care, Danois said, which is why the government was interested in funding research for alternative storage schemes.
At the core of the archive is IBM's DB2 database.Danois said that i3 used a parallel edition that runs on a grid of DB2 servers, aided by i3's load balancing architecture.
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It's a "unique architectural design" that uses all off-the-shelf components, said Danois in Berwyn, Pa.The capability to stitch the pieces together freed up the minds behind the service to concentrate on making a difference in how medical images are handled, rather than getting bogged down with creating every piece of the solution from scratch.
"Knowing that IBM had enterprise-class tool sets, I think the intellectual property contribution had to do with those who wanted to take a different approach with computing architecture because of the challenges of large image data sets," Danois said.