Medical Archiving



GRAU DATA has many years of experience in the archiving of medical data. PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) must store rapidly increasing volumes of data because modern modalities such as computer tomography (CT), magnet resistance (MR) and digital X-ray devices generate large quantities of data each time a patient is examined.


For example, a multi-slice CT generates a significant amount of data per exam, which requires a massive data volume to be stored per annum. Large clients of GRAU DATA currently operate as many as 200 modalities. PACS systems made by all leading manufacturers (such as General Electric, Siemens, Philips, Agfa, Digithurst and others) provide both a file-system and a DICOM interface to the archive.


GRAU DATA’s ARCHIVEMANAGER and FILELOCK products can be directly connected to the file-system interface of the PACS systems. The generated data typically remain for up to one year on a highly available online storage system, which is directly connected to the PACS system. After the first year has passed, the data is migrated into the long-term archive. GRAU DATA’s software products archive the data on standard hardware of the client’s choice, where the information is kept for the duration of the legally specified storage period (currently 30 years).

The archiving of data according to the DICOM standard is becoming increasingly important. The advantage for the client is that data which the PACS system has written can be read by any other PACS system, regardless of which manufacturer made it.  

For archiving according to the DICOM standard, GRAU DATA uses DICOM Appliance Software from Telepaxx. GRAU DATA offers this DICOM Appliance Software in a package together with GRAU DATA’s ARCHIVEMANAGER or FILELOCK product.

Telepaxx, the cooperating partner, is a pioneer and a market’s leader in the field of DICOM-based long-term archiving of medical data.


Additional information is available at www.telepaxx.com