![]() You would be amazed the amount of products P&G offers. I did a case study once on Proctor and Gamble. During my undergrad marketing course one thing they drilled home was that branding is everything. You almost need a crosswalk table to figure out what you purchased and what they are calling these days. Flowcast is now called Centricity Business, Groupcast is now Centricity Group Management, Carecast is Centricity Enterprise, Imagecast is now Centricity PACS, and Logician is now Centricity Practice Solutions which now includes the old Millbrook PM product if you needed it.Īre you confused yet?! You should be. After it was acquired by GE everything was rebranded again. If you are not familiar with their product line, here is a little primer: The IDX Company had a product line it referred to as “Flowcast” for ambulatory, Groupcast (formerly GPMS) for smaller practices, Carecast (formerly Lastword) for hospitals, Imagecast (formerly IDX Rad) for radiology imagining, and Logician EMR (formerly MedicaLogic). I still call it “IDX” most of the customers still call it IDX although it was rebranded in 2005 when GE acquired it. ![]() These are just a few products that have been “rebranded.” But some habits are hard to break. Finally, IDX was the software used for practice management, EMR, radiology and HIS. Initiate offers a tool that helps you determine the amount of duplicate medical records that are in your data base. Ingenix Claims Manager scrubs electronic claims before sending them to payers. As customers and industry watchers we grow accustomed to the various names of products and know exactly what it does based on its name. ![]() At this point, you will recreate the problem on a physical system (if you keep your data on RDMs, then that would be easy to do.Our industry often expands as some companies acquire others. You could also offer to sign a waiver that says GE is responsible for providing support to the point where the virtualization layer is a legitimate suspect for the problem. The next thing is to get your senior management to back your position and have them talk to GE and express the importance of virtualization to your organization, and that they are an impediment to you saving lots of $$$, and that's $$$ that could be put towards finding a suitable replacement product. I'd suggest contacting your VMware sales rep - they can often lend a hand in getting ISVs to "see the light". We are also posting this question on the GE related forums as well.Īh, the proverbial "we won't support that on a virtual machine because we've never tested it and we're afraid of it" syndrome. ![]() I am looking for someone who might be able to help with finding another customer that is running the same PACS system and has virtualized their PStore servers. However, the consultanct would not give us names of organizations and our GE rep. We have been told by consultants used by GE that other customers have virtualized their PStore servers on VMWare and there is a waiver from GE to allow this to happen. We would love to buy several VMware ESX servers and consolidate our 30 PStore servers, however GE says they will not support our system if we do. You end up with the newest Pstore has a lot of activity but after 3 months there is very little activity on the older PStore servers. As a PStore server fills up its 1.6 TB you put a new physical server into production. What happens is as radiology images are collected they are written to a "PStore Server", a Windows 2000 server with 1.6 TB of storage and then those images stay there for 7 years or forever. Our PACS configuration is a perfect fit to put on VMWare. So we are using the GE Imagecast PACS system (but the backend is really what is the Stentor PACS system). Since our implementation, IDX has been purchased by GE Healthcare and Stentor has been purchased by Philips. We purchased from IDX their PACS system which IDX had OEM'ed from a company called Stentor. To state the product we are using is confusing because companies have been purchased, etc. I work at a health system where we use a Radiology system to archive and maintain all radiology images in a PACS system.
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