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Integrating Mac Systems into

a Medical IT Infrastructure

A Case Study: Integrating

an OsiriX Imaging

Workstation

Like many other health service organizations, the University Hospital of Mannheim

saw its IT environment develop over many years into a complex and heterogeneous

infrastructure with Microsoft Windows as the standard operating system for client

computers. While this heterogeneity may sometimes make conguring and maintaining

IT systems dicult, it oers an exemplary environment for analyzing the integration of

an OsiriX workstation.

University Hospital of Mannheim

The University Hospital of Mannheim is a medical faculty aliated with the University

of Heidelberg, located in southwestern Germany. The hospital consists of 18 clinical

departments (such as surgery, internal medicine, ophthalmology, and gynecology) and

12 departments for diagnostics and research. Approximately 4500 employees care for

nearly 300,000 patients a year on both an in-patient and out-patient basis.

The Hospital IT Infrastructure

A central IT department administers the hospital’s computing infrastructure, which

includes some 2000 IT client and server systems used throughout the facility to

process and store patient records, laboratory results, images, and other information.

The systems also provide email and Internet access.

The environment represents a mix of operating systems, computational power, and

network organization. Microsoft Windows—ranging from NT to XP versions—is the

dominant OS on client systems. Linux- and UNIX-based systems are utilized for special

applications, such as le and print servers, department servers, and modality control

systems. Various departments also use Mac systems. These include researchers, teachers,

and the teams responsible for processing graphics and video content.

Department of Clinical Radiology

The Department of Clinical Radiology oversees most of the hospital’s radiological

practice, from conventional radiology, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance

imaging (MRI), pediatric radiology, and interventional radiology to nuclear medicine

and neuroradiology. Radiology professionals rely on approximately 150 Radiology

Information System (RIS) workstations to access patient data to plan and report exam-

inations. Eighty image visualization and postprocessing workstations handle the 40TB of

image data stored by a central PACS archive. In addition, four PACS department servers,

each from a dierent solution vendor, support data buering and image distribution.

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