We believe a DICOM router should be secure, easy to use, and stable.

Introducing Gateway DICOM Router – the HIPAA compliant, DICOM TLS router and archive.

Gateway Router Product Overview

RamSoft Gateway is an intuitive PC-Based DICOM product that provides unmatched functional flexibility and superior data management; making it an ideal solution for all your imaging needs. Whether you are reading studies, assuring the quality of your exams, or simply reviewing documents, Gateway DICOM Routers are versatile enough to assist you in getting the job done right.

Used each day by thousands of users worldwide, Gateway DICOM Routers are known for reliability and flexibility in all types of clinical environments. Products come in versions specially designed to meet even the most demanding production environments; at a very attractive price.

While other DICOM solutions hold you back, you can expect Gateway to help you work by streamlining your everyday tasks.

Key Feature

RamSoft Gateway Router Archiving Solution
Gateway Router was not only designed for routing images but also as an archiving solution with no limits on storage, number of studies or number of modalities, including mammography. Sites have the ability to archive their images on a PC or server. Our Gateway Router is so robust and flexible that it can work with multiple storage volumes, any number of hard drives, NAS or SAN, and can even store images on a USB flash drive.

Optional Advanced Features

Rapid Routing
Rapid Routing is proprietary RamSoft technology that opens up additional lines of communications from the modalities to the PACS to accelerate the transfer of study images and data over an internet connection.  Rapid Routing is an economical solution for practices who have maxed out their bandwidth or in instances, such as Teleradiology, where the timely processing of STAT studies is crucial for diagnosis and treatment of the patient.

Custom Scriptable Routing Rules
Allow for custom routing and processing to be performed using almost any tag in a DICOM object that is being received or transmitted. This can eliminate time consuming tasks that would otherwise be performed by a QC / post-processing tech.

Other features in the Gateway Router:

TLS Encryption
Unlike many other router vendors out there, we have taken great care to make sure that your data remains secure during transmission. Full TLS encryption secures communication over the Internet to all other compliant devices.

SQL Database
Enterprise Grade DICOM Engine
Security Audit Trails
Send and Receive from Unlimited Devices Simultaneously

Increase productivity and maximize resources in your fast paced medical imaging facility. Gateway QC Viewer offers the features required to meet both present and future challenges and the enhanced functionality your facility requires.

Gateway QC Viewer Features

Full QC Capabilities
Once a technologist finishes acquiring images, the study can be reviewed using the full capabilities of the PACS workstation. During this process, a comparison to any relevant priors can be made to identify obvious pathology.

Exam Distribution
Completed exams may be burned onto CD/DVD with Clinical Review software or transmitted through your network connection to another location.

Study Routing
Powerful DICOM routing technology allows for study routing to fit your rules and schedule.

Online Archiving
Based on a powerful SQL backend, Gateway QC Viewer is a perfect online DICOM storage solution for all your data.

CD/DVD Burning
Burn a CD or DVD with patient data/images and open them right from the media using our built-in viewer.

Gateway QC Viewer Options

Frame Grabber
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Document Scanning
RamSoft’s document scanning makes accessing important information quick and easy and saves you time and money. With full access to your documents any time, anywhere, you can virtually eliminate costly filing and retrieval.

DICOM Print
Gateway’s easy to use print setup allows anyone to print images directly to any DICOM printer with a few simple clicks.

Media Archive
Gateway QC can archive and retrieve patient data from any DICOM Part 10 media (CD, DVD, MOD).

Gateway Mammo Viewer is an FDA approved, IHE mammography profile compliant software workstation. It combines the features previously available only in dedicated mammography workstations with the flexibility of a multi-modality radiology workstation. Available as a software only solution or a bundled 3 or 4 monitor workstation, Gateway Mammo Viewer is competitively priced so that you can get a complete workstation up and running at your site for under $42K.

Gateway Mammo Viewer Features

Gateway Mammo Viewer provides the enhanced functionality your facility requires in the following key areas:

Viewing Protocols
Gateway Mammo’s viewing protocol technology goes beyond what is possible with manual film hanging to provide a customized viewing experience for each radiologist. By automatically matching preferences to the type of study you are reading and the hardware you are working on, your productivity will increase immediately.

Auto Size
Images are automatically sized to best fit, true size, or pixel size regardless of the mammography unit that acquired the images. This allows for easy comparison of current and prior studies from different vendors including Fuji, GE, Hologic, Konica, and Siemens.

Multi-Monitor Support
Gateway can handle any multi-monitor setup including mixed resolutions and color depths to allow mammography to be easily compared with MR and Ultrasound.

Relevant Prior Matching
An administrator can define rules that Gateway will use to pre-fetch clinically relevant priors for new studies that have arrived in the system. Studies can be pulled from multiple DICOM archives and pushed to other DICOM workstations or PACS.

CD/DVD Burning
Burn CDs and DVDs with patient data and images including our built-in CD viewer.

Routing
Gateway Mammo Viewer includes the powerful routing features of Gateway DICOM Router. This means that images can be routed to any number of workstations or PACS and DICOM tags can be easily corrected prior to routing.

Archive
Gateway Mammo Viewer can archive your images, limited only by available storage space. RamSoft can deliver a complete workstation with as much as 6TB of useable internal storage without requiring a separate server. A secondary NAS can be used as a redundant archive.

Gateway Mammo Viewer Options

Document Scanning
Gateway’s document scanning and management saves you time and money by eliminating those confusing stacks of paper from around the office. You will always have full access to your documents any time, any where, at the click of a button. No more worrying about document loss or costly filing and retrieval. RamSoft’s document scanning makes accessing important information quick and easy.

DICOM Print
Printing is no longer a hassle. Gateway’s easy to use print setup allows you to print films directly to any DICOM mammography printer with a few simple clicks.

Integration
Gateway Mammo Viewer works with all mammography systems and printers. CAD results are supported from Hologic and iCAD. Desktop and HL7 integration is available with mammography information systems including MagView, MRS, and PenRad. Further, MRI CAD integration is available with vendors including Dynacad and Sentinel. RamSoft offers the most flexible integration options in the industry, so please contact us if your integration needs are a bit different.

New PowerCache and Replication Technology

Have you ever found yourself sitting at your workstation frustrated while watching the hour glass or staring at a blank screen while transferring images over a slow internet connection? What do you do? While adding network bandwidth may be an option, it's a costly solution. The simple and affordable answer is to use the PowerServer™ PowerCache.

Traditional PACS systems are designed to constantly send data back and forth between clients and servers to keep their information synchronized, and up-to-date. This approach may be feasible when both the server and client reside on a fast local network, but it quickly falls apart when transfers occur over the oftentimes unpredictable internet cloud. These latencies can dramatically slowdown your time-critical operations.

With PowerCache, image data is cached on the local network and close to the client workstation. When data is requested, cached images are retrieved immediately, without having to wait to be pulled from the remote PACS servers. This significantly reduces study load times, saving the bandwidth to propagate only the information from the PACS server that is new, changed, or not available locally. PowerCache is a perfect solution for facilities which maintain their servers in remote data centers yet demand robust, LAN-quality performance.

Benefits and Advantages

Putting a PACS server in a secure data center obviously has many benefits, however the downside is that access to patient images would be at the mercy of the shared internet. When images are repeatedly stored and fetched on demand from the server, your information is constantly threatened by transmission latency and data corruption. PowerCache eliminates this risk by storing the images locally, and fetches updated data from the server only when it’s needed. This means that study images acquired from your modalities do not have to wait for any round-trip image transmissions in order for it to be read by your staff. PowerCache gives you the double-comfort of knowing that your server is safe in a data center, while your technologists and radiologists enjoy and experience speedy performance.

Reduce your bandwidth footprint

Image quality has reached hi-fidelity while the number of slices produced by modalities have increased exponentially; the consequences are larger file sizes, more data series and increased bandwidth requirements. PowerCache helps alleviate this problem by greatly reducing the amount of data transmitted and received by the server over the internet. Data is still sent and maintained centrally, but the server will never resend data that are already available locally in PowerCache.

It’s all about speed

Caching is not a new concept, as it has been deployed in many other system applications where the original data is expensive to fetch, and fast but temporary local storage is required. The growing need for a reliable PACS system whose performance and speed is de-coupled from the dependence on its network architecture has arrived.

RamSoft’s PowerCache combined with its Smart Routing Technology will bring a whole new meaning to intelligent image data management.