The PACStacks Disc Burner Appliance is a product line that provides automated disc burning capabilities to easily create stunning CDs or DVDs for referring physicians or patients. The appliance uses a disc publishing robot to uniquely label discs. Published discs can include the full-fidelity images, DICOM DIR, diagnostic report, multiple viewers and more.
Discs can be created through the simple-to-use web interface. Users log in, perform a query and click the "Burn Disc" button. Supports virtually all web browsers (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and more).
Users also have the ability to automatically burn discs simply by sending data to a pre-determined AE title. After data is sent to the burner, the exam is automatically created.
Each disc surface contains patient demographics permanently labeled to the disc surface. Each disc is serialized and unique. Discs can be labeled with just text, text and logo or photo-quality artwork.
SENCOR adheres to DICOM and IHE standards. These standards ensure referring physicians or patients (i.e., anyone receiving your discs) are able to easily view and import your discs into their existing infrastructure.
Support for industry standard robotic disc publishing robotic hardware from Rimage, Primera and more. These robots hold blank discs in one or more input bins. When a job is submitted, the CD, DVD or Blu-Ray disc is automatically picked up and placed into the burner drive. Once burning is complete, the disc is placed in a labeling printer; here, the demographics and artwork are applied.
Support for inkjet and thermal labeling technologies from Primera and Rimage provide you with hardware to satisfy your technology, throughput and budget requirements.
CDs and DVDs are a cost-effective alternative to film. Most exams can easily fit on a single CD or DVD and each disc costs much less than a single piece of film.
It also costs much less to mail a disc than film jacket. A SENCOR customer in Rochester, MN saves approximately $5,000.00 per week mailing CDs instead of film.
Aside from direct cost savings from film, the Disc Burner Appliance will reduce human errors and improve workflow. Pre-configured schedules and rules allow you to easily create discs on demand or automatically burn with no user intervention. Viewers and/or diagnostic reports can be included. These automatic inclusions improve the speed of which a disc can be created and reduce the errors when producing these discs.
Aside from automatically including a diagnostic report, the burner can be configured to automatically wait to burn an exam until the diagnostic report is available.
Automatically include structured reports on created discs. The PACStacks Disc Burner Appliance utilizes HL7 and other methods to capture and automatically include diagnostic reports onto created discs. Users have the ability to manually attach reports, automatically include reports when burning, or pause a burn job until the diagnostic report is ready.
Users can configure the burner to automatically create backup discs. Many users will take these discs off-site. This feature helps facilities maintain HIPAA compliance.
Burned discs are written to write-once media that cannot be re-written or modified and no longer accessible from any computer on the network. This protects your exams from computer hackers or virus software that could, potentially breach your network.
In the event of disaster, discs can be mass-loaded back into the burner and will automatically import the preserved data off the discs.
You can see which users are burning which exams with built-in audit logs. This feature helps facilities maintain HIPAA compliance.
Optionally Strip & Replace scores of patient-identifiable DICOM tags. This feature helps you maintain HIPAA compliance as well as provide "Basic Application Level Confidentiality."
Automatically package exams for referring physicians on CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray discs. Each of these discs allow you to store approximately 700MB, 4.7GB or 25GB respectively.
Large exams are automatically broken apart in a logical way. SENCOR's "Intelligent Spanning" algorithm reduces "Disc Shuffle" by breaking huge, multi-disc jobs in the best possible place.
You have the ability to automatically include multiple viewers. SENCOR includes a Windows-compatible viewer, a Macintosh viewer (to accommodate referring physicians using Apple computers) and even a Java viewer for Linux users.
You can configure your Disc Burner Appliance to add these viewers manually or automatically on each disc. Support for Windows, Linux and Apple.
SENCOR created the industry's first computer-embedded disc publishing system as well as the first single-burner, single-input system.
US patent number 7,120,644 was granted to SENCOR for the import and export of DICOM data via CD and DVD.
Dramatically increase throughput and eliminate publisher downtime with support for multiple, concurrent robots. This feature works as both a load-balancing mechanism and allows your facility to continue functioning (even in the event of a hardware failure).
The disc burner software has been written with a multi-threaded architecture. This allows the software to perform a number of procedures at the same time. This multi-threaded architecture allows disc-creation jobs to complete faster.
Passed stringent direct compatibility testing with a number of PACS vendors (e.g., GE Healthcare, Siemens, Intelerad, Agfa, Philips and more) Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) certification with TDK Medical.
Imports standard, DICOM-compliant discs into your network. Can also import a variety of non-compliant discs.
The Disc Burner Appliance also has the ability to update patient demographics (e.g., Patient ID, Accession Number, etc.) when importing data from disc into your network.
Now your facility can effectively import outside discs into your PACS.
