Established: 1990
Headquartered: 758 E. Utah Valley Drive, Suite 200, American Fork, UT 84003
Installations: More than 300 nationwide (including Teleradiology)
Privately Owned
www.novapacs.com

The PACS company, founded by neuroradiologist, entrepreneur, and businessman Dr. Wendell Gibby originally as NovaRad, focused on teleradiology, MRI coil and software. Dr. Gibby did not begin with the idea of creating a company, instead he began producing coils and teleradiology software for his own use because he was not satisfied with the products that were available. As demand grew for the coils and software, the company originated and efforts accelerated to develop additional superior, yet cost effective, radiology technologies, software and accessories.

January, 2002 marked the company's sale of its first full PACS.  NovaRad currently is installing 8-10 full PACS per month.

NovaRad offers HIPAA-compliant systems for Nuclear Medicine, MRI, CT, Ultra Sound and Computed Radiology (CR) modalities. All its systems are open and scalable, running Windows software and housed on Dell or HP hardware. In addition, all NovaRad products are brokerless, enabling information to be transferred from hospital information systems to the PACS, eliminating the need to purchase additional hardware or software. The company's complete product line includes:

Archive Systems
• NovaPACS, a complete, enterprise-level filmless picture archiving communication system (PACS) features clean screen versus a traditional fixed menu and the flexibility of mouse and/or keyboard shortcuts for panning, scrolling, zooming, rotating, window leveling and other functions. The mouse and keyboard shortcuts are customizable, and enable a radiologist to remain focused on the image and not on menu and other screen-based commands.
• NovaPACS Enterprise Archive for fast image retrieval and extended, redundant storage. Developed for facilities with multiple locations, the NovaPACS Enterprise Archive automatically synchronizes real-time storage of both the on-site archive and the off-site central web archive, enabling secure, password-protected image retrieval from any web-enabled computer from any location.
• NovaArchive uses wavelet technology and RAID 5 drive system for both 90-day uncompressed and seven-year compressed on-site storage.
• NovaWeb enables secure on- and off-site web access and file sharing of archived DICOM images and radiologist reports.

Archive Systems
• NovaRIS, the web-based information system tracks patients through the entire radiology process, from the receptionist to the technician, to the transcriptionist and on to the end of the billing cycle.
• NovaView, a multi-monitor workstation that supports full DICOM query, retrieval of images point to point or via the Internet, and high-resolution image viewing. Compatible with any PC hardware, NovaView can generate work lists by exam type, anatomic location or any variety of criteria the radiologist determines and also enables auto comparison of archive and new studies.

Support
• Training & Technical Support, to assist in a successful installation, consulting, training and 24-hour web and phone-based technical support services are included with each system purchase.

Accessories
• NovaSafe stores a copy of the seven-year archive offsite.
• NovaScan digitally scans legacy film modalities and attaches a DICOM header for viewing on any DICOM compliant system.
• NovaPrint prints images with grease pencil, text, and/or measurement annotations.
• Patient CD Burner to store images and radiologist's reports for viewing on any home computer.
• CR and Laser printing

• Dr. Wendell A. Gibby, CEO, the company founder, he has been the architect behind the company's software and systems development. He is a practicing neuroradiologist and director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah and owner and operator of Riverwoods Advanced Imaging.
• Timothy G. Law, President, after overseeing NovaRad's systems and software development he was named as company president in 2000. He came to NovaRad after tenures at IBM and Novell.
• Douglas C. Schroeppel, Vice President of Technical Services, lends his extensive background in support, service and project management to the Company's operations team. He oversees all aspects of technical support, installations and quality control. Prior to joining NovaRad he held management positions with technology companies including Corel (formerly WordPerfect), Novell and Netschools.
• Robert Ahlman, Vice President of Sales, During his career he has held managing sales positions at Iomega Corporation, a portable data storage company; Toshiba American Information systems, developers of electronics for the healthcare, business and home; and Uinta Business Systems a business document, information and eSolutions company.
• Paul Shumway, Vice President of Operations, has more than 20 years business experience in operations, finance, and marketing.  Prior to joining NovaRad he held executive level management positions and was responsible for several divisions within a large nationwide manufacturing company.

Topics of Expertise:
• Radiologist Viewer
• Department workflow
• Imaging Center economics
• Image quality and viewing
• Radiology Information Systems
• Picture Archiving and Communication Systems

Topics of Expertise:
• Archiving
• Radiology Information Systems

Topics of Expertise:
• RIS and PACS Markets
• Product evolution
• PACS in rural hospitals

Topics of Expertise:
• Preparing an IS department for a PACS
• Image Quality & Images over the Internet
• Networks
• Servers (Hardware)
• Data Back-Up

Topics of Expertise:
• Radiology Department Productivity with PACS
• Helping radiologists use time wisely
• Radiology Information Systems
• Voice Annotation