Dicom Systems Unifier Platform

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Comments: -Integration of multiple imaging systems: The Unifier platform can logins, interfaces, and data transfers, improving workflow efficiency and reducing errors.- Secure image exchange and storage: With Unifier, medical images can be securely stored, accessed, and shared across various healthcare providers and facilities. This improves collaboration between providers, speeds up diagnoses, and reduces the need for patients to travel for consultations or second opinions.-Simplified image management: The platform provides a centralized dashboard for managing medical images and patient data. This improves productivity, reduces the risk of lost or misplaced data, and enables better utilization of imaging resources.-Compliance and regulatory requirements: The Unifier platform is compliant with various regulatory standards, including HIPAA, FDA, and DICOM. This ensures that patient data is protected, and healthcare providers are compliant with relevant regulations.--

Pros:

- enables secure sharing of patient data, simplifies This saves time, improves productivity, and enables healthcare providers to focus on patient care.

Cons:

the platform can reduce the need for patients to travel for consultations, leading to further cost savings.

Solid value for a dicom forwarding device, with great service

Pros:

The software is functional, reliable and generally easy to customize.

Cons:

some of the functions require multiple steps on multiple tabs instead of a single set up.

DICOM Swiss Army Knife

Comments: Our organization chose DICOM systems about 7 years ago to replace a legacy DICOM routing software, and it has been truly transformative to our organization. The leadership team at DICOM Systems is top-notch and have adapted solutions and agreements to meet our unique needs. DICOM Systems is a valued and critical partner.

Pros:

The DICOM Unifier is most useful to our organization as it allows us to create reliable and high-performance DICOM integrations between or organization and our clients. We are able to utilize the tool to create solution that cater to any and all DICOM challenge we face including tag morphing, prior image retrieval, annotations routing, among others. The workflows are easy to create and maintain, and the DICOM Systems support / professional services team is always available to assist in the creation of these solutions. The user interface is easy to understand for our support staff, allowing them to identify and solve problems real-time. Integration with any/all PACS and EMR platforms makes this an excellent "all-in-one" tool to solve most DICOM integration challenges.

Cons:

When using the physical appliance, you need to ensure that you keep close track of the hardware support dates to maintain support and updates.

Nice overview of the DICOM traffic

Comments: We are very happy to have the software and also the good support of the company.

Pros:

The software helped us already many time to troubleshoot the traffic of DICOM images and helped us to solve issues at other vendor software. Now we could prove where the issue was situated.

Cons:

The user interface to see a specific images and the dicom tags of that serie/image could be maybe improved a little bit.

Alternatives Considered: Biztalk360

Reasons for Switching to Dicom Systems Unifier Platform: Price and functionality

DICOM Systems = Excellent Solutions

Pros:

The product is extremely dynamic. We couple it with our solution to manage moving data within complex imaging environments, and the DICOM Systems product is ready to tackle any scenario, regardless of complexity.

Cons:

Admittedly I'm not educated on the latest capabilities, but it's always a challenge to use some intelligence to automatically find and move clinically relevant priors from disparate systems that use very different body part / study description labeling and implement it in a way that is not a nightmare for management in constantly evolving and growing imaging environments. I'm curious to know if DICOM Systems has more advanced intelligence to address this (in the past it's been a long alias list that can be defined and managed by admins)

DICOM Systems- Dicom/HL7 Unifier

Comments: DICOM systems has been an excellent application, which has help solve many of our HL7 and DICOM hurdles. Support has been very responsive and provides solutions for some of our more complex issues. DICOM systems leadership is top notch as well, we've had many changes in our environment and they've been very accommodating in restructuring our contracts.

Pros:

Ease of installation and initial set up flexibility to solve DICOM and HL7 routing/mapping issues we can control our modalities multiple dicom destinations in one platform scripts can be created to perform complex dicom, hl7 routing and transformations

Cons:

scripting can be difficult to use if not familiar with LUA. logging categories could be better defined, difficult to find specific logs if unfamiliar with structure more dicom or HL7 scripting examples common with the industry would be a plus offer training on LUA scripting pertaining to the DICOM Unifier

DICOM Systems Unifier Review

Comments: Overall, I have been very happy with DICOM Systems. The ability of the software to manage workflows allows us to create our own fixes for problems arising from having multiple modality vendors who don't have good support.

Pros:

The best thing about this software is the flexibility and the support. Honestly, DICOM Systems has hands down the best support team I have ever worked with. Their responsiveness and their willingness to look into any sort of workflow we have is their most valuable asset.

Cons:

The UI is powerful, but it does require a technical mind to create new rules. Support is always willing to help, but it would be nice if we could manage more on our own.

DICOM/HL7 Router

Comments: Have been a DICOMSYS customer for 5+ years across multiple organizations. Their leadership team is very easy to work with and very accommodating to the clients needs. The appliance helped us get on our way to start ingesting client data very quickly. Installation and configuration has been quick and smooth. The customer support team is super responsive and very knowledgeable.

Pros:

Excellent customer service. The support team is very responsive and always provides solutions to resolve the problem. The Lua interface allows building complex custom translations very easily. Once you get past the initial learning curve, you realize how configurable and customizable the application is.

Cons:

Would like to see better documentation or more thorough user manual. The current one seems too short and concise. The alerting seems limited and wish it was more comprehensive and easy to create custom thresholds and setup email alerts.

Excellent Flexibility with Simplicity design

Comments: Fantastic product that has saved our IT department many hours and less intrusive on end users.

Pros:

System allows you to adjust the modalities one time to point to the DICOM Routers and from that point it allows modalities to be moved around to destination. Easily see what has or hasn't routed also helps with troubleshooting having the ability to resend studies when they are still on the routers for troubleshooting is great!

Cons:

None the product works as we wanted it to work and created efficiencies.

Unifier

Comments: Very professional. Expert implementation and support. Extremely happy with process and performance a year later.

Pros:

The Unifier product is wonderful. The CentOS platform is stable, support is great, and routing rules are easily configured if one is familiar with boolean logic.

Cons:

Cost, it is a wonderful product but is a bit more expensive compared to some competing products.

Alternatives Considered: RamSoft Gateway DICOM Router

Reasons for Choosing Dicom Systems Unifier Platform: EOL Imagegrid/change in company direction

Switched From: ImageGrid

Reasons for Switching to Dicom Systems Unifier Platform: Simple, overall value.

DICOM Router Review

Comments: This is a great company and I have only had positive experiences with Dicom Systems.

Pros:

The routers currently provide our facility with solid business continuity. I addition the routers automate the need for users to manually distribute DICOM studies to different destinations. Rock solid product that has never crashed or had issues (it just works all the time) since we implemented at our hospital. We have not taken advantage of every thing these routers can do.

Cons:

I was disappointed that the enterprise viewer is not included with the purchase of the routers.

DICOM Unifier a DICOM router

Comments: The customer systems were not able to route and load balance DICOM traffic. Dicom Systems unifier was able to easily fulfill this void in the overall topology.

Pros:

The implementation requirements were clearly defined, and the implementation team completed the installation in record time, without error. Post-install followup check was greatly appreciated.

Cons:

I don't really have any cons to the product in thin implenetation.

DICOM Systems Multi-year experience (Store and Forward Gateways)

Comments: It has been outstanding. Technical support (in the rare instance that you need to use it) is prompt and professional. Sales/implementations also have been very smooth and they really seem to put the client first.

Pros:

The platform is very efficient, stable and consistently performs well from technical standpoint. At the price point and quality, I don't think it can be beaten.

Cons:

I wish they had something at a price point between the Rapid & Unifier for sites with 3-4 hospitals.

Engineer's tool

Comments: The Unifier is very capable tool.

Pros:

Very capable and fast product. The ability to "set it and forget it" is very important to a DICOM toolkit .

Cons:

The price of the products caused some sticker shock.

Great App, Great Support

Pros:

The excellent support we get for installation, customization and break-fix.

Cons:

This is a complicated product with many features and functionality. Requires excellent PACS workflow and dataflow experience to utilize fully.

DICOM Systems ROCKS

Comments: This has simplified our work when working with multiple vendors and different medical record numbers

Pros:

software is easy to use and maintain and has great customer service. The Unifier allows us to prepend and automate image transfers

Cons:

The thing I least like is that not more hospital systems are using this product. We are getting our partners to switch over to DICOM Systems

AHN prior Admin

Pros:

Product is easy to use and configure. The product runs well and has a small foot print.

Cons:

there are no cons that i have experienced with the application.

Multiple tool to address DICOM gaps

Pros:

Our organization has many MRI vendors. We utilized DICOM Systems as a tool to standardize the PACS display protocols. DICOM Systems update, rename, and normalize the MR series description names at the DICOM level regales of the MR manufacture.

Cons:

We deployed the software about 5 years ago, so far no issues yet

Journey together

Pros:

Ability to manage Hl7 and DICOM flow from the same software as well as the ability to utilize information from HL7 and DICOM metadata to drive data normalization for the end systems. I also like the ability of the DICOM sys as a company to evolve with the industry and provide innovative solutions to real-world challenges.

Cons:

The user interface needs significant improvement.

Great product with excellent service

Comments: Great introduction to this group of products

Pros:

Great product with excellent service.

Cons:

Average learning curve to get up to speed

DICOM Systems Products and their team are fabulous!

Comments: DICOM Systems manufactures an absolutely terrific enterprise workflow solution which gives the customer many options as far as features and functionality. The technical team as well as the sales team is professional and courteous. They are truly a pleasure to work with!!! Most Sincerely, Nick Fisher
Data Distributing

Pros:

Intelligent DICOM and HL-7 routing within the Unifier platoform

Cons:

I can't think of anything at this time.....