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CIVIE Vendor Neutral Archive

One archive.
Every image.

Keep your imaging history in one standards-based archive, whatever PACS or modality created it, and serve it to CIVIE PACS, other viewers and the care team.

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Rule · Adult imaging

Active
  • After12 months unreadMove to long-term storage
  • At end ofyour retention periodFlag for review
  • Stored as standard DICOM
  • Documents and photos alongside
  • One history across sources
  • Outlasts any one PACS

One history

Four systems, four MRNs.One patient history.

A CT at Northside, older ones at Lakeshore and at a Lakeview PACS that’s being retired, a scanned letter and a clinic photo. Each system holds a piece under its own MRN. The archive keeps all of it, as standard DICOM and alongside it, under one.

Fictional patient and sample records, consistent with the PACS page’s study; MRNs and sources illustrative.

Lifecycle and retention

Kept by your rules,for as long as they say.

Your policies decide what moves to long-term storage, how long it’s kept and what’s held. Move the year to see her history follow them. Nothing is removed without your policy saying so.

Her archive in2026Today
202620282030203220342036

Online6

Read in the last 2 years

  • CT Chest w/o contrastTodayCTToday
  • Nodule measurementsTodaySRToday
  • CT Chest w/o contrast03/2025CT03/2025
  • Outside referral letter02/2025Letter02/2025
  • PET/CT Skull base to mid-thigh11/2024PET/CT11/2024
  • CT Chest w/o contrast08/2023CT08/2023Recalled for today’s read

Long-term storage2

Recalled when a read needs it

  • Clinic photo, chest wall06/2022Photo06/2022
  • CT Chest w/o contrast05/2021CT05/2021

Retention review0

Past 10 years, listed for you

    Nothing past the retention period

    • Online for 2 yearsafter the last read, then long-term storage
    • Priors recalledahead of the read when a new study arrives
    • Kept 10 yearsthen listed for your review
    • Legal holdkeeps a record out of review until it’s lifted

    Illustrative policy. Your policies and state requirements set the real values. Fictional patient.

    Migration

    Bring the past with you,and check every study.

    Ten years of a retiring PACS, moved a year at a time while it stays read-only.

    MigrationLakeview legacy PACS → CIVIE VNAScoping

    Source

    Lakeview legacy PACS

    Connection
    DICOM query/retrieve
    AE title
    LKV_ARCH01
    Access
    Read-only
    Test
    Echo and query passed

    Scope, agreed up front

    • Years2016 to 2025
    • Studies237,460
    • OrderNewest first, so recent priors arrive first
    • Patient IDsMapped to the enterprise MRN

    Recreated, illustrative screens: counts, accessions, AE titles and tags are sample data.

    Image sharing

    No more CDs.A link that expires.

    Send studies to another facility or to the patient by secure link, straight from the archive. You choose what goes and for how long, and every open is logged.

    Send to
    Studies
    Link expires in

    1 study, 490 images and the report, to Maria. Expires in 7 days.

    A hand holding a phone in a bright living room

    Licensed photo · recreated, illustrative screen

    Recovery and access

    One outage doesn’t takeher history with it.

    A second copy is kept in a separate location and kept in sync. Access is controlled by role, and every view, query and share is logged, under HIPAA and a business associate agreement.

    Primary locationOnline

    1,421,759studies

    Serving reads and priors

    Second locationIn sync

    1,421,759studies

    Last matched 2 s ago

    Illustrative. Hosting, backup and recovery are described in the Trust Center.

    Audit logDiaz, Maria · MRN NH-2048816 · today

    1. ViewedDr. Anita Patel, North Texas Primary Care

      Report and key images

    2. ViewedDiaz, Maria (patient)

      Secure link · CT Chest w/o contrast

    3. SharedFront desk, Northside

      Secure link to the patient · expires in 7 days

    4. QueriedNorthside EHR

      XDS-I registry query from the chart

    5. ViewedDr. Rachel Stein

      CT Chest 03/14/2025 10:22 · comparison

    6. RetrievedCIVIE PACS

      3 relevant priors for the read

    7. RecalledPrefetch rule

      CT Chest 08/2023 from long-term storage

    8. StoredCIVIE PACS

      CT Chest w/o contrast · 490 images

    How it connects

    Native where it matters.
    Open everywhere else.

    A vendor-neutral archive is only neutral if anything can read from it. On the CIVIE platform, the archive shares one record with CIVIE PACS. Next to the systems you keep, it speaks DICOM, HL7 and IHE XDS-I.

    • Native: part of the CIVIE platform, sharing one record
    • Open standards: connects to systems from any vendor

    Whole platform: CIVIE VNA exchanges data both ways with Modalities (DICOM), Legacy archives (DICOM query/retrieve), Documents and photos (Document import), CIVIE PACS (Same record), Other PACS and viewers (DICOM), EHR (XDS-I · HL7).

    Around the archive

    Where thearchive fits.

    Integrations, migration and the CIVIE solutions that read from the archive, each on its own page.

    Four standardsOne order, four messagesIntegrations & ArchitectureHL7, DICOM, FHIR and EDI, connected to the systems you already run.Read-onlyUntil you retire itPACS migrationPriors back-loaded and checked before go-live, so the first read has its history.3 priorsRecalled before the readCIVIE PACSToday’s CT read beside the priors the archive recalled for it.

    FAQ

    Archive questions,
    answered.

    • An image archive that stores studies in standard formats, mainly DICOM, independently of any one PACS or viewer. Any compliant system can read from it, so a change of PACS doesn't mean another image migration.

    Next steps

    Keep every prior.
    Retire the old PACS.

    Request a demo to talk through your imaging history, the archives you run today and what a migration would involve.

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