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White Paper

Integrating Mac Systems into

a Medical IT Infrastructure

fusion methods. OsiriX is also highly customizable via third-party plug-ins, and it can be

integrated into a wide range of workows and Picture Archiving and Communications

Systems (PACS).

OsiriX benets from its genesis in the open source community. This has allowed it to

rapidly mature into one of the most complete and feature-rich radiological software

solutions available. Numerous open source developers regularly incorporate new

features at the request of end users. Although free radiology-oriented software projects

exist for other operating systems, including Linux and Microsoft Windows, none can

equal the features and performance of OsiriX. Similarly, it is dicult for any single

medical imaging vendor to match the blistering pace of innovation that this open

source project enjoys.

Apple Mac Pro and Mac OS X

The Apple Mac OS X operating system is frequently regarded as the most advanced

operating system available, combining the powerful and security-aware techniques

of UNIX systems with a user-friendly interface.

Via modern programming techniques

such as Objective-C and the Cocoa framework, Mac OS X can support new generations

of highly stable and scalable tools for use in professional environments. And with Apple

Mac Pro systems, the requirements of a high-performance radiological workstation can

be easily met, with a single workstation powered by four or eight Intel Xeon processor

cores, up to 16GB of memory, as much as 3TB of disk storage, and a choice of three

available graphics card options, one of which oers stereo viewing capability.

Barriers to Widespread Adoption

Certain factors, however, have kept imaging workstations based on OsiriX running on

the Mac platform from being widely adopted.

Integration. IT managers and end users accustomed to Windows systems may fear that

integrating a Mac system into their environment will be dicult or time-consuming.

Security. Throughout the world, most of the client systems used for viewing and

processing radiological images are driven by Microsoft Windows. As in other industries

with high security demands, IT systems for medical use must comply with a vast array

of regulations—more today than ever before. Typical among these is ISO 27001, a glob-

ally recognized certication standard for IT security management. Other regulations

vary by country. For instance, in the United States, health care facilities must adhere to

privacy and security regulations as outlined in Title II of the Health Insurance Portability

and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which mandates a series of protections aimed at man-

aging and securing patient information. In Germany, similar regulations are provided by

the Federal Oce for Information Security (BSI). Since Microsoft Windows is the most

widely used operating system in radiology departments, IT security expertise naturally

tends to concentrate on Windows.

So despite the technological and economic advantages of an OsiriX workstation based

on the Mac platform, most medical institutions hesitate to implement such a solution.

Solving the Imaging Workstation Problem

The authors of this white paper believe that this hesitation may come at too great

a cost—not just to hospitals and clinics, but to their patients as well. Indeed, after

successfully integrating a Mac-based OsiriX workstation into a radiology environment

in Germany (arguably one of the most heavily regulated health care environments in

the world), we contend that budget-constrained institutes need no longer settle for

a substandard imaging solution.

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