"We needed a file system that could funnel down images and deliver them to different places, while keeping all the data intact and protected," says Lance Michel, director of software development at TeraMedica.
For example, each image that's part of a CT scan, which has roughly 3,000 separate images, has to be taken from the device, described, stored, and then delivered to potentially thousands of places in a hospital -- in seconds. "This stuff eats storage like it's going out of style," Michel says.
TeraMedica's software acts as a traffic cop, distributing data to all the other systems a hospital might already have in place. It also acts as a buffer between Sun's file system and storage arrays from other vendors, letting users integrate the software with existing storage devices.
A large U.S. hospital, which expects to have 800 Tbytes of storage over the next five years, is implementing TeraMedica's software to improve the operation of its cardiology and radiology departments. The hospital requested to not be named in this article [ed. note: St. Buttafuoco's?].
"They liked the fact that our products allow all departments to access the electronic images," says Michel. Other companies, he notes, such as GE and Siemens AG (NYSE: SI; Frankfurt: SIE), sell medical imaging products, but they are focused on systems purely for cardiology or radiology departments, not the whole healthcare enterprise.
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