IBM Life Sciences
A variety of IBM resources has been assembled, including data and storage management and high-performance computing, to offer solutions for the healthcare and life sciences markets. These range from integrated storage management and archiving to data and
A variety of IBM resources has been assembled, including data and storage management and high-performance computing, to offer solutions for the healthcare and life sciences markets. These range from integrated storage management and archiving to data and image retrieval.
- IBM Medical Archive consists of IBM disk and tape storage, server systems, and storage management software preconfigured and customized for PACS applications. The system is configured to meet the short-term viewing and long-term archiving needs of a department or large hospital network. Maximum storage capacity is 80 terabytes.
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager helps reduce administrative and storage management costs by automating storage tasks and ensuring data continuity. It also maximizes storage hardware usage and allows data to be migrated to the most cost-effective media via hierarchical storage management.
- IBM TotalStorage Linear Tape-Open provides a tape library for archival or offline backup storage. It is scalable up to 500 TB.
Strategies to Reduce Disparities in Interventional Radiology Care
March 19th 2025In order to help address the geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers that limit patient access to interventional radiology (IR) care, these authors recommend a variety of measures ranging from increased patient and physician awareness of IR to mobile IR clinics and improved understanding of social determinants of health.
The Reading Room Podcast: Current Perspectives on the Updated Appropriate Use Criteria for Brain PET
March 18th 2025In a new podcast, Satoshi Minoshima, M.D., Ph.D., and James Williams, Ph.D., share their insights on the recently updated appropriate use criteria for amyloid PET and tau PET in patients with mild cognitive impairment.
Study: Monitoring of Prostate MRI Exams Could Lead to 75 Percent Reduction of Gadolinium Contrast
March 17th 2025While DCE MRI was deemed helpful in over 67 percent of cases in which it was used, researchers found that monitored prostate MRI exams, which facilitated a 75 percent reduction of DCE MRI sequences, had comparable sensitivity for prostate cancer as non-monitored exams.
