IBM Medical Archive Solution

This Redpaper discusses the societal and technological factors for developing an image management solution.

This Redpaper positions the IBM Medical Archive Solution and discusses its components, how the system works, and why IBM MAS is important to the medical industry.

This Redpaper will help you to understand the history of Information Based Medicine, the development of the Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS) environment, and the process of implementing the IBM Medical Archive Solution to address the needs of many medical institutions.

This Redpaper will help you to understand the uses of several MAS hardware configurations and how you may obtain the necessary services to implement.

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Publish Date
22 November 2004

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Colin Blair is a Business Development Manager working for Avnet Partner Solutions in San Antonio, TX. He has seven years of sales and marketing experience in the IBM distribution channel and 10 years of experience in the high-tech industry. His current responsibilities include working with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to create turnkey solutions comprised of industry software applications running on IBM products complemented by Avnet value-added services. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University. Before joining Avnet, Colin was a product manager at Motorola. His areas of expertise include channel distribution, partner enablement, product management, sales management, marketing, open systems storage, and healthcare IT solutions.

• Colin Blair

Julie Currie is a Marketing Manager in the United States. She has 10 years of experience in the healthcare field. She has an MBA from Babson College. Her areas of expertise include marketing and information technology in the healthcare industry.

• Julie Currie

Eric Goodall is an IT Architect in the United States. He has 22 years experience in software development, system engineering, and IT systems architecture. He has a BSE in computer science and engineering from the University of Florida. For the past eight years he has worked in medical imaging systems integration and clinical deployment. He has expertise in developing distributed storage systems, document management systems, sonar and satellite telemetry processing, and medical imaging systems integration. Mr. Goodall is IBM's representative to the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standards organization.

• Eric Goodall

Kevin McElyea is an IBM Certified Project Manager in the United States. He has 26 years of experience in information systems technology and services, with over 16 years of project/program management experience. Since 1997 he has managed medical imaging solution development and delivery services. His healthcare experience includes managing PACS development and deployment, radiology process transformation, and medical image storage solution integration and deployment.

• Kevin McElyea

George Miller is a Systems Architect from Houston, Texas. He has 30 years of experience in IBM systems and six years in medical imaging. He holds a Masters degree in Mathematics from Texas Tech University. His areas of expertise include storage systems and medical imaging.

• George Miller

Ben Poston is an IT Architect in the USA. He has 12 years of experience in information technology and seven years of experience in the medical imaging field. His experience includes PACS development and deployment, clinical transformation and workflow, teleradiology, DICOM integration, systems engineering, and PACS systems architecture.

• Ben Poston

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