Army, Navy Team Up to Tackle Enterprise Clinical Imaging Archive

[The Patriot]

The Enterprise Clinical Imaging Archive (ECIA) is a $35M joint Army/Navy effort to consolidate all of its separate long-term image archives into a vendor neutral archive system that shares information across the services. The project is being managed by the Navy and Army's picture archiving and communication system (PACS) teams, including the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency's Integrated Clinical Systems. When the ECIA is fully up and running, which is expected in 2017, the Army will be able to decommission 17 separate long-term archives and minimize the need for costly data migrations in the future. The last four data migrations took 75 months to complete and cost the government more than $3.1M.

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