Momentum. You feel it when you’ve got it. And when it lags, you’re pushing harder to regain your stride. In radiology, maintaining momentum is core to keeping radiologists, workflow, decision-making and patient care moving forward. An enterprise imaging solution is the orchestrator that’s making it happen.
Enterprise Imaging has a new vision for eye care: Utilizing a single platform to streamline image viewing, analysis and storage and linking ophthalmology with other ‘ologies across the healthcare system. That vision is now a clinically proven reality as one platform unites eye care with other imaging exams across a large, U.S.-based healthcare system. Ophthalmologists and optometrists praise the solution for proving its value in eye disease diagnostics, care planning and patient outcomes—and now other healthcare systems can take advantage of it too.
Medical images have long lived on legacy spinning disk. But healthcare systems are now leaving behind those on-prem, awkward boxes that require too much real estate, IT support and expense. Cloud is the choice to support enterprise imaging. If it feels like healthcare cloud is everywhere, you’re right. And here’s what you need to know to do cloud right.
First there was PACS: picture archiving and communications systems. Over the last decade, as managing medical imaging has expanded far beyond radiology, enterprise imaging was born. But what is enterprise imaging in its best form?
Advanced visualization has become an essential technology not only inradiology but across the enterprise. While radiology is the hub of 3Doperations, users across the enterprise need to access and view 3Dreconstructions. Critical users include surgeons, orthopedicspecialists and cardiologists.
Two years ago, St. Luke’s Hospital and Health Network in Bethlehem, Pa., was among the first adopters of the GECentricity PACS and Centricity AW Suite 2.0, and since then it has realsignificant benefits in terms of convenience, flexibility, efficiencyand workflow.
The right diplays can boost reading efficiency and workflow, which, in turn, aids turnaround time and workflow and increases revenue. Making the right display choice hinges on understanding the subtle and not-so-subtle differences between systems and vendors.
Experience demonstrates that there aredramatic differences in workflow, efficiency, and ease of use amongdisplay systems and vendors. The same credo holds true for thedeployment process.
A solid business continuity plan provides the healthcare organizationwith the redundancy and infrastructure necessary to recover data if aprimary system or data center is compromised or destroyed.
Business continuity is not an easy process; however, many healthcarefacilities have successfully tackled it. These experienced sites offera wealth of advice for their colleagues with tips for success.
Some 434 imaging and IT decision-makers—representing a crosssection of professionals within large, medium, and small hospitals andimaging centers—offered their opinions on 23 trends that encompasstechnology buying and operations, and shared their goals and challenges.
