Digisonics releases healthcare system management server

Healthcare IT company Digisonics has released its multi-site server for storage and communication management, DigiServ.

According to the Houston-based company, the system provides real-time communication between hospital sites while maintaining patient reports on an independent server at each site and in DigiServ’s main data center. Features of the server include an auto-restore function and an automatic reconciliation process for transmitting DICOM studies between sites.

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