Patient CD production
Perennity uses CD/DVD autoloaders (robots) to automate the production, and at the same time personalize the media with a custom label. Any information can be printed on top of the CD/DVD: patient name and identifier, date and time, list of studies, etc. Of course you can also add logos and pictures to the printout, or even thumbnails of included images.

Dicom Image Archiving
Perennity can also be used as an archiving solution for Dicom images. It will act as a Store and Query/Retrieve SCP. Furthermore, an off-line backup to DVD or BluRay can be optionally performed for long term secure archiving. Perennity extracts all relevant metadata (patient and study information) from the processed Dicom images and stores these in a database (MySQL or MS SQL Server). Up to five custom fields (Dicom tags) can be defined for extraction and printing.

Automated operation
Perennity interfaces with all CD/DVD autoloaders from Rimage, the leading manufacturer in CD/DVD/BD production solutions for the medical industry. Rimage offers a complete range of robots, meeting any requirements in terms of throughput and print quality. A choice is offered from several printing technologies : thermal printing for a highly professional indelible print quality, or inkjet for less demanding applications. Rimage systems based on the Prism thermal printer also offer the possibility of personalizing preprinted discs, thereby dramatically reducing operational costs.

Intuitive WEB interface
The web-based graphical interface is extremely user friendly. It is accessible from any web browser in your network and has been designed to be used with a touch screen monitor.

Limited investment
Perennity Dicom edition is one of the most affordable solutions of its kind available in the market today. It offers all the functionality - Patient CD, Image Archiving & Upload - of competing products at just a fraction of the cost.

100% Dicom compliant
- Store and Query/Retrieve SCP
- Query/Retrieve SCU from existing PACS
- Fully compliant Dicom/IHE PDI Patient CDs
- Support of Dicom Structured Reports

Use any "Dicom Viewer"
Perennity works with almost all Dicom viewers. We offer IQ-View Lite as an option. You may add any other Dicom application(s) to each CD/DVD. You may also configure the Dicom viewer to autorun when inserting the disk in a CD/DVD reader.

Different modalities and/or the PACS send images to the Perennity Dicom Server over the local area network using the Dicom Store services, whereby the Perennity Dicom Server acts as a genuine Dicom server (SCP Store, Query/Retrieve & SCU Query/Retrieve).

You may decide to keep all images in a high capacity storage pool for archiving purposes (RAID, CAS, ...). If not, the images are temporarily stored in a buffer and will be deleted per policy (immediately or after X days). Images are automatically sorted by study and series. Perennity extracts all relevant metadata (study ID, patient name and identifier, type of modality, etc.) and stores them in its database (MySQL or SQL Server). Optionally, JPEGs images are also created.

In unattended mode, studies are automaticaly output to CD or DVD once all series of images belonging to a patient or a study have been transmitted. The operator can also manually query and retrieve studies, to be put on CD/DVD, from an existing PACS.

All operations can be monitored and managed using the touch screen based Perennity Dicom Appliance or from any workstation using a web browser. Last but not least, the reports can be retrieved from the RIS and added to all discs. Dicom Structured Reports are also supported.

Multiple studies belonging to different patients can also be combined on a single disk (e.g. archiving, R&D, ...). If required, Perennity anonimyzes the Dicom images to preserve patient privacy.

The CDs/DVDs are automatically recorded and printed using a CD/DVD autoloader (e.g. Rimage). Such robots can be used for both Patient CD production and off-line backup/archiving to DVD and BluRay.

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