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Why Downtime PACS?

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The Problem

Healthcare facilities of all types—from hospitals and urgent care centers to outpatient clinics and imaging centers—face significant financial and clinical risks from imaging downtime. Ransomware attacks, natural disasters, infrastructure failures, and IT outages routinely disrupt radiology workflows, leading to patient diversions, delayed diagnoses, and reputational harm.

  • Scans are acquired — but no one can read them

  • Reports cannot be generated or delivered

  • Radiologists lose access, especially when remote

  • ER, OR, and ICU slow or halt entirely

  • Manual workarounds delay time-critical decisions

  • Rapid CT for stroke, trauma, or bleed must be viewable immediately

  • Every unread scan is a patient left waiting — or at risk

Our Solution

Downtime PACS is a standalone, air-gapped radiology platform that functions entirely independently of traditional IT infrastructure. Whether deployed in a large hospital, rural urgent care center, outpatient facility, or mobile clinic, Downtime PACS ensures imaging can be acquired, routed, interpreted, and returned without interruption, even if a hospital loses power, internet, or suffers a cyberattack.

You cannot treat what you cannot see. When PACS goes down, so does patient care.

Downtime PACS:
A modular, always-ready system that ensures imaging continuity — even when PACS, VPN, or internet fails

  • Captures, stores, and displays DICOM studies from modalities in real time

  • Independent of hospital PACS, RIS, EMR, or HL7

  • Tailored to each site's infrastructure, clinical workflow, and disaster plan

  • ​​​Built to withstand cyberattacks, power outages, and full-system failures

  • ​Supports on-site remote, and offline reads

  • ​​Secure, scalable, and install-ready - days, not months

Real-World Scenarios

Stroke Protocol -

Hospital Network Down​

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  • CT acquired → Failsafe PACS stores locally and routes through Starlink

  • Radiologist reads via Linux laptop on DTP network

  • Diagnosis and care proceed without delay

PACS Crash

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  • Parallel PACS continues DICOM routing

  • Studies sent to radiology group or cloud viewer

  • No loss of access or reporting

Disaster Tent Deployment

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  • Portable PACS deployed in under 15 minutes

  • LTE or Starlink connectivity for remote reads

  • Imaging enabled even without local infrastructure

Why We Designed it This Way

  • Air-Gapped Linux OS: Resistant to ransomware and malware

  • Redundant Connectivity: Starlink, 5G, and ISP all operate in parallel with smart failover

  • Hardware-Level Redundancy: Hot-swappable RAID drives, UPS, and fail-safe components

  • No IT Dependencies: Designed for plug-and-play use by radiology or clinical teams

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