“The integration with Microsoft SharePoint and Azure Cloud Storage enables our VNA medical image archiving system to be flexibly available both on-premise and in the cloud to significantly reduce storage costs and to streamline the PACS upgrade process,” states MessageSolution Global Marketing Strategist Kevin McInerney. “The addition of Medical Image Archive to MessageSolution’s already robust enterprise information archiving and eDiscovery platform is a game-changer that will significantly improve interoperability for healthcare organizations.”

Available as on-premise and cloud-based solutions, the MessageSolution Medical Image Archive is a DICOM standard based and vendor neutral archive (VNA) solution. It enables centralized image sharing for remote viewing cross-country, drastically lowers storage costs of medical image archiving, reduces picture archive communication system (PACS) upgrade costs and manages image retention. The integration with Microsoft SharePoint viewing capability helps organizations to leverage their ROI in SharePoint to quickly deploy MessageSolution Medical Image Archive and allows users to view archived medical image studies seamlessly from SharePoint or EMR, accessible from desktop, laptop, tablets, and other mobile devices.

Today the storage of PACS is increasing by 20 to 40% annually with healthcare organizations facing the challenges of ever-rising cost for the storage for medical images. The MessageSolution Medical Image Archive acts as a hub for centralized medical image sharing and seamlessly integrates with SharePoint. It significantly improves interoperability for hospitals and healthcare providers. Doctors and healthcare professionals from all departments can locate, access and retrieve X-ray study, PET scans, MRIs, etc. within seconds. Healthcare providers can also securely share images and reports online with non-affiliated hospitals or healthcare organizations, to reduce costs of physically shipping. MessageSolution also saves organizations thousands of dollars by reducing the cost on upgrading their PACS.

MessageSolution also leverages its unique in-process data compression and single-instance-storage (SIS) to reduce storage requirements by up to 75% on the archiving server, variant upon file formats, which represents significant cost savings. After compression, data is stored in an easy-to-maintain and secure format (including immutable storage). Data can be offloaded from primary storage banks to inexpensive archiving storage. Organizations can granularly manage medical image retention through the creation of hierarchical retention policies to optimize storage use, improve interoperability, and maintain compliance.

MessageSolution provides a complete solution that allows each organization to customize file archiving, retention and privacy policies to achieve comprehensive compliance while supporting Exchange environments. Multi-tiered policy capabilities also allow organizations to balance record retention with data storage optimization and mitigate unnecessary legal risk.

 For the organizations moving to cloud environment such as Microsoft Office 365 or other vendor-hosted platforms, MessageSolution can help from step one – migration to Office 365. MessageSolution Platform delivers turnkey solutions that allow each healthcare organization to customize the data migration process, enterprise information archiving, retention and privacy policies to achieve HIPAA compliance and provide access in Azure Cloud Network. It serves as a centralized, auditable data store for email, SharePoint and file system data. Data is archived in real-time and is automatically retained or (permanently) deleted in accordance with configured retention policies.

MessageSolution delivers highly controlled archive access with multi-tiered access permissions, to protect institutional and patient privacy. Policy-based data redaction can also be configured to protect sensitive information such as patient IDs, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc. for HIPAA or PCI compliance. Detailed logs and configurable reports track archive access, search history, data retrieval, etc. Archived data can also be stored in immutable formats such as Blu-Ray. MessageSolution is also one of the few solution providers to offer compliance monitoring features to assess compliance governance.

MessageSolution will be showcasing its enterprise and cloud-based solutions for enterprise information archiving and eDiscovery at HIMSS 2015 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL on April 12-16, 2015 at booth #4490. For product inquiry, please contact MessageSolution at +001(408) 383-0100, or visit www.MessageSolution.com