PAC Integration Services Canada

Transform Your Imaging Ecosystem

At Cabot Solutions, we help Canadian healthcare providers replace disjointed picture-archiving silos with a unified, vendor-neutral Picture Archiving & Communication (PAC) environment. Our integration specialists map every clinical touchpoint—from modality acquisition and RIS/EMR scheduling to long-term archival—so that images and reports flow effortlessly across your enterprise. By automating HL7 and DICOM transactions, we reduce manual interventions, minimize interpretation delays, and empower clinicians with immediate access to high-quality diagnostic images.

Whether you run a single outpatient clinic or a provincial health network, our scalable architectures accommodate growing study volumes, emerging imaging modalities, and regulatory updates. From initial workflow assessment through go-live support and post-implementation optimization, we deliver a partnership that protects patient privacy, enhances compliance, and drives measurable results in patient care.

OUR TECHNOLOGY STACK

PAC Standards
DICOM, HL7, FHIR

Cloud Platforms
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

Programming Languages
C#, Java, Python

Databases
PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB

Integration Engines
Mirth Connect, Rhapsody, Corepoint

DevOps & Monitoring
Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana

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Why Choose Cabot for PAC Integration?

Cabot Solutions brings more than a decade of imaging-informatics expertise to Canadian hospitals, diagnostic imaging centers, and specialty clinics. Our multidisciplinary team—comprising certified PACS administrators, HL7 interface engineers, cybersecurity analysts, and clinical workflow consultants—understands the complexities of modern healthcare IT. We design every integration to support continuity of care, physician productivity, and IT scalability.

Unlike vendors that lock you into proprietary platforms, Cabot adopts a vendor-neutral philosophy. We leverage open standards such as DICOM, HL7, and FHIR, ensuring your organization retains data ownership and operational flexibility. Our compliance framework aligns with Canada Health Infoway, PHIPA, and PIPEDA regulations, while encrypted transport layers and granular role-based access controls safeguard sensitive patient information.

From discovery workshops through KPI-driven optimization cycles, we emphasize transparent communication, measurable value, and continuous improvement. The result is a future-proof PAC environment that elevates diagnostic confidence and accelerates care delivery.

Our Proven 6-Step Integration Process

  1. Discovery & Assessment: Stakeholder workshops, workflow mapping, and gap analysis.
  2. Solution Design: Technical architecture, interface specifications, and compliance framework.
  3. Development & Configuration: Build HL7/DICOM bridges, security layers, and analytics modules.
  4. Validation & Testing: Unit, integration, and user-acceptance testing to ensure error-free data flow.
  5. Deployment & Training: Phased rollout with clinician training and change-management support.
  6. Optimization & Support: Continuous monitoring, KPI reviews, and iterative improvements.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. How long does a typical PAC integration take?
Project duration depends on the number of facilities, modalities, and interfaces involved. A single-site outpatient clinic can often go live within 4–6 weeks, while a multi-hospital network generally requires 8–12 weeks. We accelerate timelines by using pre-built interface templates, parallel test environments, and a phased go-live schedule that allows critical departments to migrate first while others follow with zero disruption.

2. Can you integrate with our existing EMR and RIS?
Absolutely. Our vendor-neutral strategy means we design interfaces around the standards your systems already support—typically HL7 v2, HL7 FHIR, and DICOM. We have successfully integrated with Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, GE Centricity, Sectra, Carestream, and numerous proprietary solutions. Before development, we perform a detailed interface-spec review to ensure field mapping, trigger events, and message acknowledgements align perfectly with your EMR/RIS workflows.

3. How do you ensure data security and privacy?
Security is woven into every layer of our solutions. We employ AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, enforce role-based access controls tied to your Active Directory or LDAP, and maintain immutable audit logs to track every image access and message exchange. Our security team conducts quarterly penetration tests and continuous vulnerability scanning. Compliance checklists cover PHIPA, PIPEDA, HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC 2 requirements, ensuring you pass both internal and external audits with ease.

4. What level of support do you offer post-deployment?
Our standard SLA provides 24/7/365 monitoring with a 15-minute response time for critical issues and a four-hour resolution target. You will have a dedicated account manager, direct phone access to a Level-3 PACS engineer, and a customer portal for incident tracking and knowledge-base resources. Quarterly heath checks review system performance, interface message queues, storage utilization, and user feedback; findings are translated into an optimization roadmap so your PAC environment continuously improves.

5. Will clinical workflows be disrupted during migration?
No. We design migrations around your clinical schedule. Data transfers occur after hours or during low-volume windows, and modality connections remain live until new interfaces pass user-acceptance testing. Our team shadows radiologists and technologists during the cutover to provide at-the-elbow support. Because we replicate your existing folder structures and metadata, users transition seamlessly—often noticing only faster load times and improved image availability.

6. Do you offer cloud PAC solutions?
Yes. We provide fully cloud-native, on-premise, or hybrid architectures. For cloud deployments, we leverage regional AWS or Azure data centers to ensure data residency within Canada. Elastic object storage scales automatically with imaging volume, while low-latency edge caching guarantees quick image retrieval for clinicians. If a hybrid model suits your compliance strategy, we keep recent studies on-prem for rapid review while archiving older exams in the cloud, reducing total cost of ownership by up to 40%.