• Interoperability: Supports multiple imaging formats (e.g., DICOM, non-DICOM) and integrates with various Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) and Electronic Health Records (EHR).
• Centralized Storage: Consolidates imaging data from multiple departments and facilities, improving accessibility and reducing duplication.
• Scalability: Accommodates growing data volumes while maintaining efficient retrieval and long-term storage.
• Data Integrity & Security: Ensures compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR) through encryption, user access controls, and audit trails.
• Cloud & Hybrid Deployment: Supports on-premise, cloud, or hybrid storage models for flexibility and cost efficiency.
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VNA is a crucial component in modern healthcare IT, ensuring that medical imaging data remains accessible, secure, and interoperable across different platforms and institutions.

• Enhances collaboration across healthcare providers.
• Reduces vendor lock-in, enabling seamless system upgrades or replacements.
• Improves patient care through faster and more reliable access to imaging data.
• Lowers long-term storage costs by optimizing data management strategies.

• Must interface with other clinical systems and disparate PACS for the purpose of communicating imaging data, by means of DICOM
• Must interface with other clinical information systems for communication of reports, results, workflow, etc., by means of HL7
• Must have the ability to store the complete suite of DICOM SOP classes including presentation states and key image notes
• Must store all objects in a non-proprietary format
• Must support DICOM query/retrieve
• Must provide ability to manipulate DICOM tags
• Must include a separate, independent, commercially available database product which supports SQL
• Support for high-availability hardware and software platforms
• Highly scalable
• Support for image compression in a non-proprietary, industry standard fashion
• Support for automatic pre-fetch
• Support for auto-routing of images
• Universal Viewer
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