When Digital Jacket imports or receives DICOM files, it processes each file and saves the data into its database. The files are not saved within Digital Jacket as DICOM. They must be converted to DICOM when they are exported to disk, retransmitted or burned to CD.

This means that unless you are performing periodic backups that if Digital Jacket's database were to become corrupted you will not be able to reconstruct data from the damaged archive.

Because backup procedures vary from institution to institution, we have updated Digital Jacket 5.0 to include its own automated DICOM backup server. Now with Digital Jacket 5.0, you can setup rules to backup your database to external DICOM files, as well as prune your archives of older data.

DesAcc strongly recommends the upgrade to Digital Jacket 5.0 for safely archiving your data as external DICOM files.

You will need to backup all your archives to DICOM files in order to upgrade to Digital Jacket 5.0. To do so, open each archive and right-click the top level folder:

When upgrading from Digital Jacket 4.x to v5.0, patient data will not be deleted when Digital Jacket is uninstalled. You will need to:

1. Uninstall the application from the Windows Control Panel:

2. Restart your computer

3. Install Digital Jacket 5.0

4. Follow the ReadMe.pdf for installing the backup server