Media Asset Management Solutions for the Medical Field

In the medical field, having instant access to your video archives is crucial. Manually locating, archiving, and retrieving large volumes of videotapes and DVDs is extraordinarily time consuming. With the PX Medical Video Archive from Focus Enhancements, however, you can manage and access your entire video library—from surgical video to video-based training programs—with ease.

Supporting high-resolution MPEG-2 and DV/DVCAM encoding, the PX Ingest Station enhances your workflow by enabling you to ingest, index, and upload multiple channels of analog or digital video to the PX Media Server. Through its intuitive interface, the PX Ingest Station delivers the functionality of high-end ingest products without requiring the user to be a technical expert.

Designed for fast performance, the PX Media Server uses rich meta-data to make it easy to find and retrieve items quickly. Low-resolution video clips of your HD, HDV, DV, and MPEG footage allow for quick preview, protect high-resolution media assets, and save network bandwidth, making the PX Medical Video Archive the ideal solution for the medical profession.

With the PX Medical Video Archive, you can integrate your entire workflow, including acquisition, storage, and distribution, to gain unparalleled efficiencies.

The Vattikuti Urology Institute at the Henry Ford Hospital

The Vattikuti Urology Institute selected the Focus PX Medical Video Archive to streamline the tasks of recording and storing video for each robotic prostatectomy procedure performed. The PX Media Server replaces the need to manually manage volumes of dispersed videotapes and enables terabytes of low- and high-resolution video to be managed, queried, and viewed from a simple browser-based interface. With the PX Medical Video Archive, VUI has reduced the time and manpower needed to find a surgical video file by approximately 66 percent. View case study

Arizona State University

The Sextant Group designed AV technology for the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. The design features an 18'x4' video wall that displays a mixture of signage, media, and educational programming. In addition, 50" displays are scattered throughout the Institute’s center atrium, hallways, board room, and conference rooms. The Sextant Group selected the Focus PX Media Server and the PX Playout Station as the core infrastructure for the media management and playout solution.

Dublin City University

Eurotek developed the Digital Nursing Archive (DNA) to help Dublin City University (DCU) make distance learning a productive and viable educational tool. Eurotek selected the Focus PX Media Server and the PX Ingest Station to provide the core technology. With DNA, each student can record his or her procedure without a camera operator. Video is automatically transferred to the Digital Nursing Archive, where it can be queried and viewed by an instructor via an Internet connection. View case study