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Analytics & MeaningLearn how an image-empowered enterprise fuels collaboration, enables cost savings and helps healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) meet business and patient care goals.

EXECUTIVE BRIEF

Curating, accessing and sharing patient imaging data on an enterprise scale remains a significant hurdle for most healthcare delivery organizations. Once assembled, mining that data for meaning stands to empower clinical and business insights, bringing the patient to the center of care.

While many organizations have successfully deployed electronic healthcare records systems in support of Meaningful Use (MU), most continue to examine how they can bring real business value and patient benefit to the healthcare delivery stage. Here we examine how image-empowering the enterprise further impacts care efficiency and effectiveness. Imaging and imaging analytics are additional and progressively more important tools aimed at improved clinical quality, patient experience, and value.

Reason #3: Analytics and Meaning

When CMS implemented the EHR incentive program with their objectives for Meaningful Use of clinical data, the goals were to improve the quality of care, involve patients and families in their care, promote public and population health and improve patient care coordination. While HDOs have made great strides toward meeting those goals, there is still work to be done.

Data silo integration and system interoperability are essential in seamlessly sharing patient information required for clinical decision support. HDOs will need to leverage data analysis to evaluate illness intervention and prevention. The analysis of healthcare imaging data, integrated with EHR data, will become more pervasive and steadily more relevant. Diagnosis, care, and treatment planning without relevant images will limit the full understanding of patient health across the spectrum of care.

Healthcare leaders will need to aggregate patient care information from across the enterprise and analyze it in new

ways to understand data relationships including care history, patient demographics, continuing care, and population health. CIOs and CDOs (Chief Data Officers) need to plan for the broader set of patient data and how it can be used for better diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

How image-enabling your enterprise can help.

Image-enabling the enterprise allows the building of a care data foundation that HDOs can use to identify, assess and find meaning in patient data in a more holistic and essential way. Patient data normalization, standardization, sharing, and analysis across the enterprise is essential for system interoperability (i.e., PACS, RIS, EMR), for communication (i.e., referring physicians, specialists and patients) and is the first, and arguably the most critical step to true analysis of data across an enterprise and a population.

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To embrace the movement toward patient-centered care, HDOs need to look across their complete enterprise, evaluating all patient data repositories to collectively organize the data, and then analyze and share that data with a wide and growing group of stake-holders in a meaningful way. Enterprise image-enablement solutions are essential to securely sharing the complete patient record consistently and easily with all key stakeholders.

Where do you begin?

Whether you need to image-enable your enterprise, address the integration of merged HIT systems, or bring advanced analytics to find meaning in the data, 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 experiences.

Enterprise image sharing, IT system interoperability, and data analytics are all business enablers that are directly addressed by image-empowering the enterprise. The future of image management is bright. Advanced enterprise imaging solutions are being deployed across care eco-systems and are making an impact on patient care and patient outcomes. These Enterprise Imaging Platforms 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.

HDOs evaluating strategies to strengthen their patient data foundation should make an image-empowered enterprise a priority. This strategic choice will have a direct and measurable impact on a healthcare organization’s revenue, reimbursements, care efficiency and quality, and satisfaction of physicians and patients. A robust enterprise imaging solution will consolidate patient imaging with the EHR, enable sharing and access, maximize IT system interoperability, and put a focus on broad patient data analytic support, all allowing HDOs to achieve key business and patient-care goals.

“An Enterprise Imaging Platform has allowed us to enable better care by lowering or eliminating the hurdles that existed with different image silos that didn’t talk to each other. The solution has allowed our enterprise to transform from being exam-driven to being patient-driven.”

- David Marichal, CTO, Radiology & Imaging Specialists

The story continues…If you enjoyed reading “Part 3” of 3 Ways Imaging Platforms “EmPower” Your Enterprise, visit the resources section of our website to read:

3 Ways Imaging Platforms “EmPower” Your Enterprise#1: Image Sharing

3 Ways Imaging Platforms “EmPower” Your Enterprise#2: Interoperability