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  Image SharingLearn how an image-empowered enterprise fuels collaboration, enables cost savingsand 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 ImagingPlatforms and how they are fueling and image-”empowering” the

enterprise.

Curating, accessing and sharing patient imaging

data on an enterprise scale remains a signicant

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 theU.S. annually.1 Eciently and eectively 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 anExpanding 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 morepatients 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 dat

opportunity where correlation of patient studies across location

specialty departments, and diagnosing timeframe creates a

holistic patient view of both current and previous diagnoses andpatient 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 IMAGINGPLATFORMS “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 ow 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 beaccessible by the patient, referring physician or receiving HCO’s

image management system. This ineciency causes diagnostic

delays and possible redundant imaging with over-exposure risks

for the patient.

How image-empowering your enterprisecan 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 workow

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 ve

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 aholistic 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 ecient image sharing at all points of the care continuum.

Where do you begin?

When you need to image-enable your enterprise, nding an

enterprise imaging solution is paramount. Your timing is perfec

A great rst step on the road to Enterprise Image Empowermen

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 v isibility, intelligence

and decision support to put their healthcare organizations in

control of the complete patient care record. They oer clinicians

optimized workow enhancements, signicantly improved

throughputs, and the exibility 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 dierent vendors) inside our enterpris

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 Specialist

The story continues…If you enjoyed reading “Part 1” of 3 Ways Imaging

Platforms “EmPower” Your Enterprise, visit the resources

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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, Apr il 20132 Ibid.3 Gartner Research, “How to Find the Money For Your Vendor-Neutral Archive,”March 2015.4 Ibid.