Smooth Migrations

SMooTH Move

SMooTH Move is a set of tools that enable to smooth migration of images from other/older (PACS)-archives into a new VNA environment. SMooTH Move covers the entire process of assessing the current archive, moving all the data over and validating the final result, making sure that all information is migrated well.

Move/Assess

Move/Assess is used is used for assessing various aspects of the migration environment before starting the actual migration. The tools are installed on a small computer (for instance a shuttle or another VMware environment) which will connect to the data to be migrated, and will analyse several aspects of the migration to come like:

Supplier specific DICOM-structures
Modality specific DICOM-structures
Coding systems used
Transfer speed

Move/Transform

Move/Transform will transform the data coming in, into the required new Vendor Neutral standard of the receiving archive. Transformations include:

DICOM Dictionary transformation
Private Tag Standardization
Private Tag Normalization
Private Tag to File Conversion
Language Correction
Organizational Mapping

Move/Read

Move/Read will perform the actual reading (export) of the data from the archive that needs to be migrated. Depending on the results of the analysis the reading can be done in various ways, like pure DICOM, based on database information, etc.

Move/Store

Move/Archive will insert the transformed data into the receiving VNA, based on DICOM.

Move/Validate

Move/Validate can be used continuously to check whether there is still a good match between source (old archive) and target (VNA) to ensure that all data is really moved from source to target. A report shows any differences (for instance caused by updates on the old archive during migration).