From the September 2013 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Now is the right time to look at your organization’s global imaging archive strategy. Besides the complexity of adding EHRs, health care organizations must also navigate the waters of continually growing image volume and the rapid consumption of imaging resources. All of these business challenges can be minimized with the right archive architecture and workflow solution.
The ability to migrate from multiple silos of imaging storage to one consolidated archive helps to reduce all of the associated costs for storage and archiving.
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Image repositories provide a single point of access for EHR integrations while helping to reduce maintenance tasks through centralized system management.
Lifecycle management helps you manage risk while having a positive effect on storage consumption.
An integrated workflow engine can assimilate information from any number of pre-existing systems and provide opportunities to fill the quality initiatives’ gaps.
The paths to an enterprise archive and data access may not be identical, but every long-term strategy should consider the forest as well as the trees.
About the author: Thomas Coppa has many years of experience working on the enterprise IT team at Iowa Health System as an infrastructure architect, and was part of a team that led the charge toward an enterprise-wide solution for image data management. Currently, he is the technical consultant with McKesson Enterprise Image Repository.
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Mark Bowen
Term "PACS-Neutral Archive"
September 03, 2013 02:52
Good article but one comment - the term "PACS-Neutral Archive" implies that the VNA is only relevant to PACS when it can actually be much more. When you look at all the other types of unstructured clinical content being captured across all clinical settings, coupled with the potential use of standards like XDS, the VNA can play a much broader role within the healthcare enterprise in helping to manage all content, not just diagnostic images.
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