CAMPBELL, Calif., Oct. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Dicom Systems (www.dcmsys.com), a Silicon Valley-based healthcare IT company and enterprise imaging interoperability expert, is pleased to announce their selection as Cloud VNA technology of choice by San Antonio-based teleradiology services and health IT innovation company Musculoskeletal Imaging Consultants LLC (MSKIC, LLC) (www.MSKtelerads.com).
“MSKIC, LLC created the RadCloud® platform to support the Radiology as a Service® offerings including vendor neutral image and medical information content in addition to private cloud based RIS/PACS and subspecialty teleradiology services. The RadCloud® ecosystem required a feature rich, flexible, and interoperable Enterprise Imaging workflow engine/VNA solution and Dicom Systems was a perfect match of features and flexibility,” said Douglas Smith, M.D., MSKIC, LLC President. The DICOM Systems routers integrate seamlessly with the RadCloud® ecosystem using a Restful API (application programming interface) and anticipated HL7 FHIR connectivity in early 2016. “By choosing Dicom Systems as MSKIC’s partner, we have established a solid foundation to gain crucial vendor neutrality, interoperability and scalability, while uniquely managing our image lifecycle management (ILM) requirements, both on-premise and cloud-based,” said Dr. Smith.
With Dicom Systems’ versatile and flexible platform, MSKIC, LLC is now able to: 
- Normalize all images into a DICOM-conformant VNA framework (eliminate proprietary DICOM-related roadblocks),
- Leverage a Partly Cloudy®, hybrid Cloud approach with both on-premise and cloud-based components for data storage permitting combination of performance and rapid scalability.
- Support the MSKIC innovation and interoperability framework through a full-featured imaging workflow design toolset, flexible Restful API and HL7 interoperability channels.
- Enable complex workflow and analytics using metatag application to DICOM header layer leveraged using analytics and computer assisted decision making functions within MSKIC’s Radiology as a Service® offerings.
- Gain the freedom to deconstruct or transform their RIS/PACS without the apprehension and cost of complex data migrations.
“We are excited to be a part of Dr. Smith’s vision for the future of his practice. MSKIC, LLC is at the heart of a complex software solutions ecosystem that creatively leverages applications that are typically siloed from one another. Thanks to Dr. Smith’s innovation and forward thinking, Dicom Systems is seamlessly – and affordably – unifying all these applications into one cohesive and interoperable environment,” said Florent Saint-Clair, Dicom Systems Executive VP.
About Musculoskeletal Imaging Consultants, LLC:
Musculoskeletal Imaging Consultants (MSKIC, LLC) has expanded from a national subspecialty orthopedic and spine teleradiology services company to pioneering emerging health information collaboration technologies ultimately enabling HHS / CMS Meaningful Use objectives. MSKIC created the RadCloud®: the first private cloud VNA and platform solution for radiology; Radiology as a Service® all-in-one radiology services provider; and GoToPACS™: private health information exchange for San Antonio, Texas.