VISUALIZATION

Ziosoft has announced a new financing option at the Association of Hospital Radiology Administrators (AHRA) annual conference being held in the Washington, D.C., area Aug. 23-25, 2010. The new operational alternative budget option is specifically designed to help healthcare facilities with limited capital budgets to obtain Ziosoft's Ziostation system with PhyZiodynamic supercomputing visualization technology for state-of-the-art patient care.

"We have been working with hospital administrators to develop this innovative financing program due to the challenges of capital budgetary processes," said Rob Royea, president and COO with Ziosoft. "Our goal is to enable healthcare facilities to implement this breakthrough technology across the enterprise with nominal initial investment. This allows administrators to replace costly maintenance contracts of older systems with an economic platform that stays at the forefront of the technology curve."

Ziosoft's PhyZiodynamic supercomputing technology is based on dynamic, instantaneous analysis of chaotic information in weather, which has extremely similar data characteristics to the human body. Over the years, this technology evolved from a large room of host computer hardware to a centralized, CPU-based processing server allowing multiple concurrent users per server anywhere throughout the enterprise system. This has resulted in several significant advantages including non-compressed 3D and 4D images producing the highest integrity and accurate image quality with zero software footprint for patient access. It provides customizable palettes for optimized user efficiency and maxims cost effectiveness for an extensive range of clinical applications. It also enables indications-driven workflow and supports reimbursement as well as HIPAA requirements.

The operational budget option allows a healthcare facility to leveraging its own biomed expertise by purchasing its own off-the-shelf server, or use an existing server, and thin clients to which Ziosoft engineers install the company's supercomputing visualization and analytics algorithm software. Upfront costs are limited to the self-purchased hardware, training by experienced Ziosoft professionals and the first 90 days of rental fees. Subsequent fees are billed every 90 days thereafter. There are no minimum time requirements for using the technology.

"In this economic environment it is difficult for some facilities to carve out new funds for capital budget expenditures," said Royea. "However, if we can replace money already being spent in the operations budget with a less expensive alternative, we can both save money for our clients and provide supercomputing which will enable the 3D/4D patient care continuum that is so lacking with today's older technologies. Offering this type of program, along with our standard purchasing option, gives our clients the opportunity to implement the power of supercomputing using financing most suitable for their needs."

PhyZiodynamic supercomputing software architecture is economical and scalable, eliminating the need for costly, multiple servers, proprietary or specialized GPU rendering boards, enabling patient access anywhere, anytime. It helps expand the life of existing expensive modalities such as CT and MR, has received regulatory clearance for a wide variety of applications and is the gateway to 5D functional analytics.