NOVEMBER - 20189Today's healthcare CIO can play a critical role in connecting these pockets of images into a holistic strategy. He or she can help orchestrate how their patient, supplies and materials comes together, and make it so clinicians can view, analyze and manage a full view of the patient record.Consolidate and Centralize your Image StorageA clinician needs the ability to access a patient's prior medical records--whether from different departments in the organizations or different health systems--to provide their best patient care. One foundational capability within an imaging architecture is to have a storage system that provides one holistic view of the patient across your whole enterprise, from radiology and cardiology to mammography and advanced visualization.Healthcare administrators can centralize and consolidate the images into one viewer, regardless of the vendor. Technology today allows for cross-vendor solutions, so while there are multiple systems running under the hood, it can provides one seamless and centralized viewing system for healthcare providers.Having a viewer that can seamlessly display images from multiple systems can be beneficial in several ways:· Provides clinicians with access to the full patient record.· Creates cost savings through operational efficiencies.· Reduces potentially unnecessary imaging by providing a holistic patient history.· Consolidate storage to potentially generate millions of dollars savings.Provide Easy Access to ImagesThe mobile device industry taught us that data is most effective when you can tap into it regardless of your location. The same is true for medical data.Yet, today we still access medical images in a variety of ways: sometimes on a CD, other times on a PDF or web-browser, or even through the cloud. To help access multiple forms of image data seamlessly, health administrations should implement a standards-based approach to access and capture those files.Moving forward, healthcare organizations won't rely on burning discs. Instead they will likely have a cloud infrastructure in place that allows clinicians to access information wherever they are, with whatever device or software they are using. Have a cloud infrastructure can help improve healthcare delivery and health administration, while keeping information safe.Share Medical Data Across SystemsAn imaging architecture should also consider how images are shared outside of their organization. Clinicians often can collaborate with other physicians for virtual consults or to access expertise outside of the organization. Having an infrastructure and system in place to share images can help ensure you are sharing patient images in a safe and efficient manner.Now that a majority of health organizations have implemented EMRs, it is important to have a system in place that allows for an image-enabled EMR. To demonstrate Meaningful Use Stage Two, one measurement is that 10 percent of all scans and tests ordered by an eligible professional (EP) that result in an image will need to be accessible from an EMR.Ensuring that you have the right architecture in place can not only help a healthcare organization meet regulatory requirements, but it can also be the foundation for an enterprise-wide system that helps drive efficiencies, improve collaboration and help your organization to deliver better patient care. Healthcare administrators can centralize and consolidate the images into one viewer, regardless of the vendor
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