Gain Efficiencies With Vendor Neutral Archiving
There is a lot of talk about vendor neutral archiving, and there is a reason for it. Data
management is becoming a huge issue due to the massive amounts of data being stored today by healthcare providers. Radiology images are growing in size and volume, and access to archives isn’t getting any easier with traditional solutions. Vendor neutral archiving has immerged as a go-to solution that can handle the problems radiology professionals experience today.
As a healthcare provider, you strive to reduce overhead, which is often a losing proposition, due in part to the hardware and software being used to address the challenges. Vendor neutral systems, on the other hand, are built in an open, non-proprietary fashion that opens up the ability to share data, regardless of what type of PACS is being used from one end to the other.
Costs associated with administrative overhead can be addressed with vendor neutral archiving technology. This is approached through the non-proprietary nature of VNA, which adapt to on-site and virtualized storage solutions. The virtualized storage is all about the cloud. Due to the fact that you’re storing your images remotely, there is no cost associated with on-site servers or maintenance and upgrades that can get quite costly. When you take to the cloud, you’re freeing up labor costs as well as capital costs.
Have you had issues in the past with data migration? If you answer ‘yes,’ you can attest to the cost of such an operation and the time it took to complete. With VNA, you don’t have to worry about the migration headaches. Instead, all data can be accessed with standard tools, making sharing much more simple and less costly. With today’s VNA, radiology departments can access information lifecycle management applications that easily move data between the tiers of storage. You can balance your costs by having older data automatically moved to less expensive storage solutions.
Connecting with a third party VNA provider can also put you in touch with new technologies that improve your workflow. Furthermore, it can also improve your business continuity and disaster recovery processes. Due to the nature of cloud computing, data is stored in multiple locations (depending on the vendor), which means you should have unlimited access to your data.
VNAs have the ability to adopt storage technologies faster than PACS, which means you get improved lifecycle management and a more stable platform. In fact, when you connect with the right vendor, you can bypass PACS-related management situations, which can save you money and improve your workflow. In the end, it amounts to better patient care, lower costs, happier workers and a less worked IT staff.
OffSite Image Management, Inc. actually guarantees clients a cost savings. There are so many efficiencies in our 360-degree solution that we can make such guarantees. Furthermore, our VNA platform is an industry leading solution that continues to gain praise with each new client.