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White Paper

Integrating Mac Systems into

a Medical IT Infrastructure

Executive Summary

As medical imaging devices grow more advanced, radiology teams increasingly rely

on independent imaging workstations. Despite the obvious value of a resource solely

dedicated to viewing and postprocessing radiological images, the signicant expense

of traditional commercial solutions has made imaging-only workstations too costly for

many facilities around the world.

Fortunately, this is changing, but not because proprietary solutions have suddenly

become aordable. Rather, radiologists are now beneting from the convergence

of two important technology trends: the availability of an open source application

known as OsiriX, and the growing adoption of aordable yet powerful Apple Mac Pro

computers and the Mac OS X operating system for medical imaging.

With rapid development within the open source community, OsiriX has evolved into

a powerful and user-friendly tool for radiological work. With Apple Mac Pro hardware

and the Mac OS X operating system, an OsiriX workstation allows radiologists to work

eciently with the high-volume image data sets produced by modern imaging devices,

and it oers sophisticated algorithms to enable multidimensional reconstruction. And

all of this is available at a fraction of traditional radiology workstation prices.

While the Mac platform is widely used in scientic research, it is true that many IT

departments remain hesitant to adopt the Mac platform for clinical use. Some IT

managers assume it is dicult to integrate Mac systems with their existing Microsoft

Windows-dominated environments.

Personal, hands-on experience has proven otherwise. This white paper is intended

to illustrate how budget-constrained organizations can more aordably acquire the

imaging workstations they need. The report shows how organizations can integrate

a Mac-based OsiriX workstation into a real-world medical IT setting, with expectations

that it will perform satisfactorily on a daily basis. The paper outlines the steps required

to deploy such a workstation within a Microsoft Windows-centric environment. And

it addresses topics that radiology departments everywhere must consider, including

legal requirements, IT and patient data security, and display quality.

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