MRI Connectivity Technologies - Full Service
Connectivity for MRI Imaging Center Low Voltage, IT connectivity, IP addresses, send and receive of Imaging Scan Teleradiology Interpretations, and Archive of Patient Images. - Module #16
Great Techs, IT Drops, Cable Routing, Server Racks, Ample Bandwidth, Send, Receive, add File Archive.
Connectivity for MRI imaging: During the buildout or remodeling of the building you will use for your MRI Imaging Center, we can assist you in developing a clear plan for your IT and telephone drops.
It will be essential to have a separate dedicated phone line and separate phone number for the remote emergency monitoring of your MRI unit 24/7 by your MRI equipment manufacturer.
We can assist in planning for your IT drops for the front office, MRI control room, MRI Equipment room, MRI server areas, Front desk, VOIP desktops, business workstations, and peripheral devices.
Your IT specialist will meet with the builders from the early planning stages to discuss your hard-line phone needs, cable runs, VOIP options, and low-voltage needs. They will also consider the number of building Hot Spots planned where staff, vendors, and patients can access the Internet.
A low-voltage/IT vendor not associated with the builder or remodeler usually does this work. Their invoice might be outside the buildout expenses initially projected by the builder.
For your buildout loan and budgeting purposes, you will want to determine the costs in advance for telephony, IT cable runs, and IT drops. They will also consider any possible network data/network storage, servers, switches, and server racks you might need on-site.
In addition, the remote access teleradiology groups we work with have a great team of IT specialists who can help you set up to send the large MRI files to their group for interpretation and return interpretation reports to you and your network.
Your IT specialist team will obtain the IP address of the MRI machine from the final installation engineers from the company that provided your MRI unit. Before final installation and “Go-Live” with your magnet, they will test the send and receive of your MRI files from your MRI Magnet to the teleradiology group. In this network, bandwidth and speed are extremely important for communication with the teleradiology group.
MRI study files are enormous, and you do not want them to get hung up in a slow image send and slow report receive process.
In working with our teleradiology vendors, our goal is to have our client MRI Exam studies sent for interpretation by our teleradiologist group, with top-quality interpreted report turnaround time to our client group in one hour or less.
Working with a remote read teleradiology group for client patient interpretations, we can negotiate the most competitive read fees anywhere. We can also negotiate on your behalf to Archive your MRI studies and identify/negotiate the per-study price for the annual storage of your files.
We provide highly effective consulting services on your behalf regarding the IT, IP, Telephony, and Archive of Imaging files items noted in this section. When implementing your MRI Imaging Center, we can alleviate your concerns and lack of familiarity with any of these areas.
In this Consultation and Assistance Module, we will address
We must plan for high-speed, large-bandwidth fiber cabling to your MRI site early in the project to ensure that MRI files do not get hung up in the teleradiology send-and-receive communication.
-Ensuring that your internet carrier can offer large bandwidth and high-speed sending of large data files at a reasonable price.
Don’t scrimp on this one; you don’t want to send and receive Internet slowly.
-Determining your IT and Telephony Drops should happen during early architectural planning. You may have some significant cable runs and several drops to consider and plan for, and we advise on cable type as well.
-Planning for hard-line dedicated analog phone circuits for elevator and MRI Magnet remote monitoring, what to know, and why.
-Planning for and building IT hot spots.
-Considering if USB ports and standard electrical outlets should be in several MRI Imaging Center patient waiting areas.
-Setting up MRI machine IP addresses with the MRI field Engineers well before your “GO LIVE” date,
-Coordinate and test with your Teleradiology Group IT team on the other end.
-Planning with IT and the MRI Technologist and Owners on the MRI File Archive Agreement
-Consider additional redundancy and additional file backup and servers.
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