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The Provincial Health Services Authority Selects Bycast StorageGRID MultiSite™ as its Diagnostic Image Archive Solution
Vancouver, Canada May 26, 2003
Bycast Inc. is pleased to announce that the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) has selected Bycast StorageGRID MultiSite™ as the image archive solution for Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia (C&W). Bycast will provide C&W with a 12 terabyte fully redundant online DICOM archive.
"Bycast StorageGRID MultiSite™ provides us with a fault tolerant and cost-effective software solution that addresses the need for an open system that can seamlessly grow in capacity and geographic footprint. This allows us to reliably store local studies and acquire exams from other facilities throughout the province. The archive will interface with our existing enterprise image viewing solution and provides an open solution that integrates with all DICOM modalities and PACS", said Jamus Spink, Corporate Director Technical Services, PHSA.
"As we move towards an integrated regional archive, Bycast's StorageGRID Architecture™ provides the scalability and security needed to meet the data volume and the multi-site requirements. It also allows us to employ an open solution that interfaces with existing multi-vendor systems", said Don Henkelman, Chief Information Officer, PHSA.
"We are pleased to be working with an institution of the caliber of C&W, a leader in pediatric and women's care. Bycast will provide C&W with a next generation solution that results in improved patient care by enabling fast and secure access to large numbers of current and historical imaging studies from around the province", said Moe Kermani, President and CEO of Bycast.
About Bycast Inc.
Bycast provides GRID computing software solutions for the storage and distribution of fixed content data, including images, documents, audio and video for the life sciences.
Bycast's product suite enables the creation of enterprise-wide and regional data GRIDs that make the storage and retrieval of images and documents faster, easier to manage and more reliable. Bycast's products are based on Bycast StorageGRID Architecture™, specifically designed to overcome the scalability, reliability, manageability and security challenges encountered in the storage and distribution of petabytes of fixed content data.
About the Provincial Health Services Authority
The Provincial Health Services Authority operates provincial agencies that include Children's & Women's Health Centre of B.C. and the B.C. Transplant Society. PHSA's primary role is to ensure that B.C. residents have access to a coordinated network of high-quality specialized health care services.
About the Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia
The Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia was created in 1997 through the merger of British Columbia's Children's Hospital created in 1982, British Columbia's Women's Hospital and Health Centre, and Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children. Today, C&W has more than 400 in-patient beds. More than 4,000 staff and 800 physicians and scientists work in its two Vancouver sites. C&W has the largest maternal-fetal-newborn clinical service in Canada and is the major referral centre in B.C. for acutely ill or injured children.
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