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7/17/2019 3 Ways Imaging Platforms Empower Your Enterprise - Part 1: Image Sharing
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Image SharingLearn how an image-empowered enterprise fuels collaboration, enables cost savingsand helps healthcare delivery organizations meet business and patient care goals.
EXECUTIVE BRIEF
Healthcare delivery organizations are image-enabling their
enterprises to fuel collaboration, analysis, sharing and
interoperability. Complete patient records are now unlocked,
unleashed and unPAC’d empowering people and processes across
the enterprise to achieve key business and care delivery goals.
This 3 part Executive Brief explores Enterprise ImagingPlatforms and how they are fueling and image-”empowering” the
enterprise.
Curating, accessing and sharing patient imaging
data on an enterprise scale remains a signicant
healthcare hurdle. Once assembled, mining that
data for meaning stands to empower clinical and
business insights, bringing the patient to the
center of care.
More than 600 million imaging procedures are ordered in theU.S. annually.1 Eciently and eectively sharing those images
across the healthcare enterprise is critical to the delivery of care,
the management of care costs, and the improvement of the care
delivery experience for both patients and clinicians.
Addressing Image Sharing Across anExpanding Healthcare Ecosystem
Healthcare consolidation continues to rise. Enterprises are
consolidating to form new care systems that require enhanced
levels of integration, data exchange and collaboration. As morepatients present to medical facilities for diagnostic imaging, tools
to manage those images take center stage. It is estimated that
most imaging studies are ordered on an outpatient basis requiring
image sharing between a growing number of stakeholders
internal and external to the organization, including referring
physicians, diagnosing clinicians, specialists, and patients .1
Of the 600 million imaging procedures ordered in the U.S.
annually2, more than 50 percent of the studies used for diagnosis
and treatment will originate from sources other than the primary
treatment facility.3 Finding a way to easily integrate, normalize
and share these images, regardless of their point of origin, is a
challenge. This is a “big data” problem, but it is also a precise dat
opportunity where correlation of patient studies across location
specialty departments, and diagnosing timeframe creates a
holistic patient view of both current and previous diagnoses andpatient conditions.
When care providers have access to a full scope of patient data,
diagnostic accuracy improves, patient treatment engagements
shorten, outcomes advance, costs decrease and reimbursements
increase.
3 WAYS IMAGINGPLATFORMS “EMPOWER”YOUR ENTERPRISE
Image Sharing
Interoperability
Analytics & Meaning
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Imaging intake and sharing systems.
Imaging intake and sharing systems are used by HDOs to
manage the ow of patient imaging into and out of the
enterprise. While digital sharing of patient data through portals,
cloud solutions, secure email and web URLs, and HIEs is gaining
traction, most HDOs still transfer imaging data to external
entities (i.e., referring physicians, specialists, patients) through
images burned on portable media (CD, DVD, USB, etc.). The
media is costly and time-consuming to produce, and may not beaccessible by the patient, referring physician or receiving HCO’s
image management system. This ineciency causes diagnostic
delays and possible redundant imaging with over-exposure risks
for the patient.
How image-empowering your enterprisecan help.
Solutions for image intake and sharing have moved from “point
solutions” geared for single departments to “ecosystem-wide”
solutions that integrate patient imaging across the full spectrum
of care. Patient imaging from radiology, cardiology, dermatology,
ophthalmology, etc. can now be correlated, normalized, and
consistently and securely shared through a variety of secure and
intuitive means.
The underlying technology powering today’s
enterprise sharing platforms brings together
advanced vendor-agnostic image archiving
solutions (VNA), communication and workow
solutions, and image viewing solutions.
According to Gartner’s March 2015 report “How to Find the
Money for Your Vendor-Neutral Archive,” within the next 3 years,
over 25% of HDOs will leverage an advanced, enterprise-wide
imaging solution to facilitate image sharing.4 VNA deployment
to facilitate image sharing is outpacing PACS selection by ve
times and is expected to eclipse siloed image storage systems
by 2018.
An enterprise imaging platform provides a single, enterprise-
wide repository (VNA) for medical images. Standards like DICOM,
HL7, and XDS are used to integrate departmental PACS for
study retrieval and viewing. Enterprise-wide access creates aholistic view of the patient’s medical history including images
for alternate opinions and consultations. Image-enabling your
enterprise with an imaging platform powers consistent, secure
and ecient image sharing at all points of the care continuum.
Where do you begin?
When you need to image-enable your enterprise, nding an
enterprise imaging solution is paramount. Your timing is perfec
A great rst step on the road to Enterprise Image Empowermen
is to talk with those who have traveled before you. There are
many healthcare IT leaders (not just vendors) you can talk with
who have gone before you and know which paths to take and
which to avoid. CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and IT leaders from IDNs,
imaging centers, regional hospitals, and clinics are ready and
willing to share their experience.
Enterprise image sharing, IT system interoperability, and
Meaningful Use rules are all business enablers that are directly
impacted and enabled by image-enabling the enterprise. The
future of imaging management is bright. Advanced enterprise
imaging solutions give healthcare leaders v isibility, intelligence
and decision support to put their healthcare organizations in
control of the complete patient care record. They oer clinicians
optimized workow enhancements, signicantly improved
throughputs, and the exibility to plug and play best of breed
visualization solutions – all delivering image data where and
when needed.
“We manage images from 7 PACS systems
(from 5 dierent vendors) inside our enterpris
and we accept images and data sets from
multiple outside sources. Our Enterprise
Imaging Platform allows us to have one view
of the patient across all of those sources and
quickly get the images to the doctors who
need them. This type of image sharing enables
better patient care and transforms us from
being exam-driven to being patient-driven.”
- David Marichal, CTO, Radiology & Imaging Specialist
The story continues…If you enjoyed reading “Part 1” of 3 Ways Imaging
Platforms “EmPower” Your Enterprise, visit the resources
section of our website to read:
3 Ways Imaging Platforms “EmPower” Your Enterprise
#2: Interoperability
3 Ways Imaging Platforms “EmPower” Your Enterprise
#3: Analytics and Meaning
1 Wall Street Journal, “ Where Do You Keep All Those Images,” Landro, Apr il 20132 Ibid.3 Gartner Research, “How to Find the Money For Your Vendor-Neutral Archive,”March 2015.4 Ibid.