Enterprise Imaging in a Deconstructed World

Presented by: Jon DeVries

VP Solutions Management

Merge Healthcare

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily represent official policy or position of HIMSS.

RSNA 2015

The battle over PACS goes back to the 90s

Depts. Corp IT

1999 VNA first developed at the University of Alabama

2015 Deconstructed PACS Trend Gains Momentum

PACS

Worklist and Viewer vs Storage, Bandwidth, Security

Clinical / Department Workflow vs EHR Image Enablement

One Department / Multi-Sites vs Multiple Departments / Multi-Sites

Split PACS into VNA vs. Worklist / Viewer

Single Department - Radiology

Multiple Departments

Multi-Site and Multi-Departments

Multi-Site and Multi-Departments

New Trend: National Telerad Companies

• Some of the national telerad companies are for profit, venture backed firms

• These firms are reading for multiple hospitals in many locations

• In order to achieve financial goals, and deliver economic value to their hospital clients, the firms are providing the workflow solutions to optimize the radiologists efficiency when reading across many sites

Multi-Site and Multi-Departments

Multi-Site and Multi-Departments

• “Platform” that provides long-term flexibility, disaster recovery, lifecycle management

• Ability to easily share medical (data) by communicating with different PACS

• Central repository for medical imaging data and other patient data based on open architecture for multiple departments of multiple hospitals.

• Accepts data irrespective of the originating PACS or other viewing, acquisition and workflow management system

• Makes originating sources changeable without having to change the data formats or interface of the archive.

What is a VNA?1

1 InMedica Research – Data Storage – Vendor Neutral Architecture – 2012 Edition

• “Platform” that provides long-term flexibility, disaster recovery, lifecycle management

• Ability to easily share medical (data) by communicating with different PACS

• Central repository for medical imaging data and other patient data based on open architecture for multiple departments of multiple hospitals.

• Accepts data irrespective of the originating PACS or other viewing, acquisition and workflow management system

• Makes originating sources changeable without having to change the data formats or interface of the archive.

What is a VNA?1

1 InMedica Research – Data Storage – Vendor Neutral Architecture – 2012 Edition

DICOM

HL7

IHE / XDS

Migration Tools

ILM / PBD

DR / BC

Questions?

Thank You,

Jon T. DeVries

VP Solutions Management, Interoperability

Merge Healthcare, Inc.

jdevries@merge.com