Konica Minolta improves radiologist productivity using AWS HealthImaging

Providing scalable, high-speed, and cost-efficient imaging

Exa is the first PACS to be in production using HealthImaging. By building on HealthImaging, Konica Minolta created a cloud PACS and RIS solution that combines speed, scalability, and efficiency. Exa, available through AWS Marketplace, achieves subsecond latency even for large radiology studies and can scale seamlessly to support millions of studies on a single data store. This performance is enhanced by Konica Minolta’s compression technology, which decodes medical images twice as fast as other DICOM transfer syntaxes, and by AWS APIs that deliver 5 Gbps speeds, so that users can retrieve images in under 100 ms. Customers also experience up to 60 percent lower storage costs using Exa on HealthImaging.

Customers are already seeing results. “Since going live with Exa PACS integrated with AWS HealthImaging, we have experienced significant benefits with performance and stability,” says Dr. Muzammil Shafi, managing partner at Houston Northwest Radiology Association. “With Exa PACS and HealthImaging, we can read more cases quickly, improving radiologists’ productivity. The system is extremely reliable with uptime on a stable platform that will let us grow our business even larger into the future.”