Receive & store
DICOM C-STORE and DICOMweb STOW-RS ingestion, with encrypted AWS object storage and an archive index.
Lightbridge / Disaster-recovery archive
Keep new imaging
moving through downtime.
An on-demand, temporary imaging archive while your primary PACS or VNA recovers. Built for receiving new studies, serving them to validated downstream systems, and handing them back.
Continuity in practice
A destination for the studies
you acquire during the outage.
Connect your workflow
DICOM query/retrieve and DICOMweb QIDO/WADO access for compatible downstream systems. HL7 v2 ADT/ORM and worklist configuration are validated for your environment.
Return & reconcile
Skyward transfers in-scope studies to your restored archive and reports reconciliation results. Optional HL7 capture and replay are configured as part of the engagement.
Readiness before activation
Fast deployment starts
with preparation.
The archive is automated.
The recovery plan is prepared together.
Highseat, Valhalis’s internal delivery tool, provisions the AWS platform and deploys the products. Your team uses the service; our delivery team operates the deployment.
- 01
Onboard
Agree on AWS access, secure connectivity, modality destinations, certificates, approvers, and your viewing approach.
- 02
Exercise
Test the intended connections and workflow. Record timing, dependencies, and what remains to be addressed.
- 03
Activate
Provision the archive, connect the agreed systems, and validate the data flow before treating the bridge as ready.
Measured, with context
23m 19s to a serving archive.
That was the July 3, 2026 internal AWS exercise. It measured stand-up to an archive serving queries, not full restoration of a hospital’s imaging workflow. Customer network changes, integrations, and approvals affect activation time.
Readiness targets, exercise frequency, support coverage, and service remedies are agreed in writing for each engagement.
Scope & expectations
Plan for the bridge you actually need.
What does the bridge hold?
New studies acquired during the engagement, plus any available data explicitly included in scope. It does not recover priors that exist only in an unavailable archive.
What is needed for viewing?
A compatible customer PACS or viewer and a validated access path. Lightbridge supplies storage, retrieval, and communication; it does not supply a diagnostic reading workstation.
What remains after decommission?
The live archive and compute are retired under the agreed plan. Audit evidence, locked records, backups, DNS resources, and KMS deletion windows may remain for defined periods and may incur costs.
Let’s make it concrete
Put your continuity plan to the test.
Scope a DR exercise around your modalities, connectivity, and success criteria.