Case Study: Bartron Medical Imaging

Bartron's Med-Seg unit incorporates NASA technology to provide improved diagnoses for a wide range of medical images, including computed tomography scans, positron emission tomography scans, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, digitized X-ray, digitized mammography, dental X-ray, soft tissue analysis and moving object analysis.

Using the Med-Seg system, healthcare practitioners can take any unmanipulated medical image and segment it to see features in the image that were not previously visible to the naked eye. The clinicians can additionally isolate one particular area of interest in an image to compare it with many other reference images in databases at other healthcare facilities.

The Med-Seg product is not only data- intensive, but also the data being analyzed is extremely critical to patient diagnosis. So Bartron Medical Imaging needed to create an archive solution that was reliable and secure, and capable of meeting long-term retention and compliance requirements at a relatively low total cost of ownership.

Because the Med-Seg system moves massive amounts of data — hundreds of terabytes of data in a day — it was critical that the archiving solution have the capacity to easily store large amounts of data. Additionally, because the images are mission-critical to the professionals who are using the Med-Seg system for diagnosing and treating patients, it was of the utmost importance that the solution meet strict compliance and regulatory standards to protect healthcare professionals as well as their patients.