Waterloo, Ontario, Canada – February 25, 2010

Karos Health Announces the Introduction of Rialto Vault


Advancing Medical Data Exchange and Medical Data Storage

Karos Health (www.karoshealth.com) today introduced Rialto Vault. Rialto Vault, the product of Karos’ partnership with Caringo, is the latest functionality to be added to Rialto, adding Caringo’s CAStor object-based storage to Rialto’s clinical exchange platform.

Today, healthcare institutions face major challenges in the storage and retrieval of an ever-growing amount of clinical information, and in secure information exchange with other healthcare providers. As more healthcare providers turn to technologies such as Rialto for collaboration and clinical exchange, the need for virtualized storage increases, allowing for seamless sharing of information.

Rialto Vault leverages Caringo’s CAStor technology to simplify the secure exchange and storage of medical information, allowing institutions to unlock, exchange and store information using breakthrough technology for object-based storage. Rialto Vault marries Rialto’s clinical information exchange software platform with Caringo’s CAStor enabling scalable and reliable content storage.

Rialto Vault is optimized to manage the massive volume of patient information and medical images generated within healthcare facilities, and offers the scalability and ease of use required by healthcare providers. It supports a comprehensive list of IHE® Integration Profiles as well as the most current implementation of industry standards DICOM and HL7.

Key Features:

  • Integrates with legacy clinical information systems to simplify the publishing and retrieval of imaging and non-imaging information.
  • Augments existing archives and storage solutions with no impact to workflow and clinical use.
  • Reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by providing simplified storage management and storage consolidation across healthcare environments with a low-upfront investment, easy installation and implementation. Rialto Vault utilizes inexpensive hardware reducing a healthcare institution’s reliance on expensive middleware, SAN or NAS based storage technologies. New hardware can be seamlessly added eliminating hardware switching costs.
  • Scales from as little as 1TB to tens and hundreds of terabytes as demands increases, contributing to low TCO.
  • Enables continuous availability and data redundancy of a patient’s complete clinical information critical for compliance with HIPAA and a healthcare institution’s stringent data retention requirements.
  • Implements the IHE Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.b) and IHE Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I.b) Integration Profiles and includes Document Registry, Document Repository, Document Source, Imaging Document Source and Patient Identifier Cross-Reference Manager (PIXV2/PIX3) actors.

“Storage is a natural extension of a clinical exchange platform, and healthcare institutions embracing information exchange strategies, are seeking a more effective and virtualized model than available today. Caringo CAStor’s scalability, performance and low TCO accrues directly to Rialto Vault, allowing us to provide a very complete, and highly competitive solution for clinical information exchange and storage” said Rick Stroobosscher, President of Karos Health. “Rialto Vault is the ideal solution for those healthcare institutions seeking consolidation of their legacy imaging archives and looking to invest in Vendor Neutral Archives and Clinical Data Repositories” he adds.

Tags / Keywords:

Karos Health, Diagnostic Imaging, healthcare information technology, HIT, healthcare communication and information technology, HCIT, health information exchange, HIE, electronic health record, EHR, clinical systems interoperability, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, IHE, DICOM, HL7, Radiology Information System, RIS, Picture Archiving and Communication System, PACS, Vendor Neutral Archives, VNA, Clinical Data Repository, CDR.

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About Karos Health

Karos Health is focused on elevating the quality of patient care by enabling the sharing of clinical information. Karos’ flagship product Rialto empowers healthcare enterprises to enable cross community access to information, facilitating collaboration between healthcare providers and patients. Rialto is based on open standards that ensure safe and secure handling of patient health information and is backed by a team with decades of experience in healthcare interoperability. For more information about Karos, visit www.karoshealth.com.

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Contact

Michel Pawlicz
Karos Health
michel.pawlicz@karoshealth.com
+1 519 594 0940