NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--lifeIMAGE announced today the launch of a new solution that gives healthcare organizations the ability to offer their referral and coordination sites a simple to use yet powerful tool that facilitates the sharing of any and all medical information including diagnostic images. LITE was developed with interoperability and simplicity in mind for healthcare entities to quickly deploy and build clinical networks.

Historically, building and sustaining a data exchange network in healthcare has been challenging. It is burdensome for IT departments to implement and maintain, complex to integrate into workflows, expensive, and difficult to meet proprietary and onerous vendor requirements.

“The goal at lifeIMAGE was to achieve greater healthcare interoperability. LITE drastically simplifies the complex so you can build an interoperable network without an IT department,” said lifeIMAGE President and CEO Matthew A. Michela. “This product is standards based and integrates right into existing workflow. You don’t need to program around proprietary requirements, and you aren’t forced to learn and use additional user interfaces.”
With dramatic shifts currently underway in the sector, interoperability provides a critical pathway for healthcare organizations to coordinate care, build clinical networks, reduce costs, improve efficiencies, make better clinical decisions and accelerate discovery.

Benefits and features include:

True interoperability

LITE uses application programming interfaces (APIs) based on standards. There are no proprietary or unique APIs for you to program around.
LITE facilitates access to all medical imaging data types across multiple vendors at scale. It is standards-based and connectable to any HIT vendor who is Meaningful Use Stage 2 (MU2) certified, reducing the need for proprietary APIs or multiple exchange solutions based for DICOM and HL7.
Workflow efficiencies

Integrates into your existing workflow: Additional UIs are not required. This “headless agent” allows an administrator to make customizations for desired automated workflow.
Bundle diagnostic images with reports: No need to interrupt workflow to access a secondary solution to send diagnostic reports and associated clinical files. The information is sent together with the images, which also eliminates the need to reconcile separate files at the receiving site.
Exam prioritization: Get the most critical exams first. Large files and/or heavy exchange traffic can get in the way of sending more critical exams in a timely fashion, which potentially leads to delays in patient care. LITE creates a “passing lane” for those with designated DICOM priority tags of “high” and “medium” to ensure that the most critical exams are exchanged first.

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