Cloud-based and mobile solutions help imaging department administrators lower the total cost of ownership, increase availability and distribute applications beyond the department.

Orlando - Today, Siemens Healthcare will demonstrate how image and information management solutions help customers lower healthcare costs, while improving the level of service offered to other providers and patients. These innovative solutions will be on display in booth 825 at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) in Orlando from June 7-10, 2012. Siemens is demonstrating significant updates to the syngo Workflow radiology information system (RIS) as well as syngo®.via1, for advanced visualization, syngo.plaza, the agile picture archiving and communications system (PACS), and syngo Dynamics, Siemens cardiovascular imaging and information system (CVIS). In particular, Siemens recently announced the availability of the syngo Workflow Cloud Solution.2 This private cloud deployment option can help healthcare providers reduce the ongoing capital expenditure of maintaining on-site hardware for this departmental scheduling and report delivery solution. Siemens will also demonstrate mobile options for the imaging IT portfolio on a selection of mobile tablets and devices.3 Bringing clinical users advanced functionality and new approaches to optimize the total cost of ownership are key objectives of Agenda 2013, a two-year global initiative to further strengthen the healthcare sector's innovative solutions.

The syngo Workflow RIS provides advanced radiology workflow applications, enabled through syngo portals, which help drive efficiency from order entry to image and report distribution. Siemens can now host the RIS from its private, medical-grade Healthcare Computing Center to help customers better predict costs and reduce capital expenditures. As such, the private cloud solution for syngo Workflow provides a more predictable cost environment -- particularly for hospitals already hosting other elements of their health information technology solutions in the cloud. The first Siemens customer to deploy this option is The Chester County Hospital and Health System, West Chester, Pa.
"The transition to cloud computing was smooth," said Paul Morris Jr., RIS Administrator, Chester County Hospital and Health System. "We've already seen the cloud option minimize down time, with no loss of data, during a recent, winter power outage. Without the cloud option, it would have taken significantly longer to come back up."

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