Unifier® Platform: Enterprise DICOM Router for Enterprise Imaging Workflows
Unifier is a vendor-neutral, enterprise-grade DICOM router and imaging workflow engine built to manage and route imaging data across complex healthcare environments. It delivers high-performance, metadata-driven DICOM routing using patient attributes, modality, destination availability, and workflow logic to optimize throughput and reliability.
The platform enables healthcare organizations to automate imaging workflows, reduce latency, and scale enterprise imaging operations across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures. It ensures efficient data movement across modalities, PACS, VNA, RIS, and clinical systems, and extends beyond routing to support workflow orchestration, data normalization, and enterprise interoperability.
Core Features of the Unifier Platform
Standards-Based Architecture
Built on industry standards including DICOM, DICOMweb, HL7, and FHIR to ensure consistent, vendor-neutral data exchange and long-term interoperability across healthcare systems.
Reliable Study Delivery and Data Integrity
Ensure complete and accurate image delivery with automated validation checks, audit capabilities, and consistent performance in challenging network conditions.
Unifier-to-Unifier Connectivity
Secure Bidirectional connectivity between remote spokes and a central hub when sites only allow outbound 443 and cannot support VPN sprawl.
Secure Data Transmission and Compliance
Protect imaging data using TCP/IP, TLS, and HTTPS to support HIPAA-compliant DICOM and HL7 data exchange.
Advanced DICOM Routing Engine
Route imaging data using metadata-driven logic for precise, real-time delivery, with support for multi-destination routing, modular scalability, and advanced workflow customization using LUA scripting.
Optimized Web-Based Administration
Configure and manage workflows through an intuitive table-driven web interface designed for rapid deployment and efficient system administration.
Seamless Integration Across Imaging and Clinical Systems
Integrate with PACS, VNA, RIS, EHR, and AI platforms using RESTful APIs and standards-based protocols, including support for Nuance PowerScribe One for reporting workflows.
Flexible Deployment Across On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid Environments
Support enterprise imaging across distributed infrastructures with deployment on physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid architectures, including VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, and Nutanix, ensuring consistent performance and availability during maintenance, upgrades, and system changes.
Additional Unifier Capabilities and Configurations
- Customizable Workflow Engine
- LDAP/MFA and Single Sign-On (SSO) Integration
- DICOM Structured Reporting (SR)
- High Availability and Deployment Flexibility
- Unifier Command Center Centralized Monitoring and Operational Visibility
- Unifier Analytics
- Lifeboat Solution
- Dedicated Test Appliance
Featured Workflow Solutions
Each workflow runs on the Unifier platform and supports a broader enterprise imaging strategy.
Vendor-Neutral Archiving (VNA) and Storage
Store, manage, and access imaging data across systems, departments, and facilities with a scalable, vendor-neutral architecture supporting on-premises, hybrid, and cloud deployments. Automate lifecycle management, enforce secure access, and support high-performance retrieval to keep data accessible and compliant.
AI Workflow Orchestration (AI Conductor)
Orchestrate controlled, scalable AI deployment by routing imaging studies to AI engines based on metadata, modality, anatomy, or clinical context, with structured results returned to PACS, RIS, and EHR workflows.
Backup Clinical Web Viewer
Provide secure, zero-footprint access to imaging studies through a web-based viewer, allowing clinicians to view and share images from any location during remote access or system downtime.
Data Privacy and De-Identification
Remove PHI from DICOM metadata and pixel data to safeguard patient privacy. Support secure data sharing for research, AI development, and quality initiatives while maintaining HIPAA and global compliance.
DICOM and HL7 Tag Morphing
Normalize metadata across heterogeneous systems through real-time DICOM and HL7 tag transformations, ensuring consistent data formats for downstream systems regardless of source-system variability or legacy constraints.
DICOM Modality Worklist (DMWL)
Synchronize scheduling and patient data across RIS, PACS, EHRs, and imaging modalities, reducing manual data entry, minimizing errors, and improving study accuracy in multi-vendor environments.
DICOM Load Balancing
Distribute imaging workloads across multiple PACS, archives, or processing systems to prevent bottlenecks and maintain consistent performance in high-volume environments
DICOM Proxy Solutions
Retrieve imaging data on demand without duplicating storage, reducing infrastructure overhead, and improving performance in distributed and cloud-based environments.
FHIR
Exchange clinical and imaging data using FHIR-based APIs to support real-time access, system integrations, and connectivity with EHRs, patient portals, and third-party applications.
HL7 Integration
Deliver real-time, bidirectional HL7 message exchange between imaging systems and clinical applications, keeping patient updates, orders, results, and status messages aligned across PACS, RIS, and EHR platforms.
Patient Match
Reconcile patient identities across systems using configurable matching rules to support enterprise imaging initiatives, data migrations, mergers, and acquisitions while preserving study and clinical continuity.
Relevant Priors
Automate the identification and delivery of relevant prior studies to PACS, viewers, or AI pipelines using configurable rules and metadata analysis, improving diagnostic context and reducing manual retrieval.
SCO/CTO to BTO Conversion
Convert proprietary SCO and CTO objects into standards-compliant BTO format for mammography and breast imaging workflows, maintaining compatibility with PACS, VNAs, and enterprise viewers while preserving image fidelity.
Subspecialty Imaging Solutions
Unifier workflows support enterprise imaging beyond radiology while maintaining a unified platform and governance model.
Each specialty leverages the same Unifier platform, enabling consistent integration, automation, and scalability across the enterprise.
Unifier Rapid + DICOM Router
Unifier Rapid+ is a centralized DICOM router designed for sites requiring up to three destinations under a single set of routing rules. It functions as a hub in a hub-and-spoke model, enabling fast, secure connectivity across clinics and imaging sites, and is well-suited for teleradiology and remote workflows by routing data to a central Unifier for downstream processing. For more complex, multi-destination routing and advanced DICOM or HL7 transformations, the Unifier platform is the enterprise solution.
Dicom Systems Rapid+ DICOM Router.
Unifier Rapid+ DICOM Router Core Features
Centralized Hub-and-Spoke Routing
Connect multiple imaging sites to a central node to streamline data flow and simplify routing across distributed environments.
Secure, High-Speed Data Transmission
Enable fast and efficient DICOM data transfer using optimized compression and direct site-to-site connectivity without reliance on VPNs.
Flexible Multi-Destination Routing
Support routing to up to three destinations with configurable rules based on standard and private DICOM tags.
Expedited Teleradiology and Remote Connectivity
Quickly connect clinics and imaging sites with reliable study transfer, including delivery verification, failover support, and detailed logging.
Seamless Integration
Integrate with existing imaging systems and workflows to ensure consistent data exchange across connected environments.
Remote Management and Monitoring
Manage and monitor the system using SNMP, a web-based GUI, and certificate management for streamlined administration.