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Image SharingLearn how an image-empowered enterprise fuels collaboration, enables cost savings and 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 Imaging Platforms and how they are fueling and image-”empowering” the enterprise.

Curating, accessing and sharing patient imaging data on an enterprise scale remains a significant 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 the U.S. annually.1 Efficiently and effectively 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 an Expanding 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 more patients 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 data opportunity where correlation of patient studies across location, specialty departments, and diagnosing timeframe creates a holistic patient view of both current and previous diagnoses and patient 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 IMAGING PLATFORMS “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 flow 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 be accessible by the patient, referring physician or receiving HCO’s image management system. This inefficiency causes diagnostic delays and possible redundant imaging with over-exposure risks for the patient.

How image-empowering your enterprise can 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 workflow 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 five 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 a holistic 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 efficient image sharing at all points of the care continuum.

Where do you begin?When you need to image-enable your enterprise, finding an enterprise imaging solution is paramount. Your timing is perfect. A great first step on the road to Enterprise Image Empowerment 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 visibility, intelligence and decision support to put their healthcare organizations in control of the complete patient care record. They offer clinicians optimized workflow enhancements, significantly improved throughputs, and the flexibility 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 different vendors) inside our enterprise 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 Specialists

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, April 2013.2 Ibid.3 Gartner Research, “How to Find the Money For Your Vendor-Neutral Archive,” March 2015.4 Ibid.