Establishing Your Priorities When Selecting a Zero Footprint Diagnostic Viewer Platform
When planning for a zero footprint diagnostic viewer platform, there are a number of factors to
consider. That’s why it makes sense to develop a checklist of priorities that will cover the various complexities affecting physician satisfaction as well as quality patient care.
High up on just about every checklist is the quality of diagnostic images as well as availability. A zero footprint diagnostic viewer must allow all DICOM images and others to be viewed in a non-proprietary form. Furthermore, these images must be available to physicians and radiologists while they are on the go. Working with the right image vendor will bring these advantages to the table.
Speed is also among the top priorities, which means the solution must side-step network latency issues. The right zero footprint diagnostic viewer will minimize any latency problems.
Among your checklist must also be the regulation and patient privacy requirements, which can differ per geographic location. Most providers are held to FDA Class II certified image viewing platform requirements, so that should definitely be on the list for your zero footprint diagnostic viewer.
No full-proof viewer solution is complete without a business continuity and disaster recovery plan. Your images need to be available to you all day every day. The platform you choose must have proven recovery strategies in place if you’re going to have 24/7 access to your critical images and data.
How smart do you want your viewer to be? Are you working with 3D images, breast tomosynthesis, MIP/MPR, and echocardiograms? You’re going to need a viewer that has a rich toolset that can handle everything you need and everything you’re planning in the future.
Are you part of a growing hospital group? If so, you’re going to need the ability to scale up. Even if you’re staying static were growth is concerned, you’re likely evolving in one way or another. That’s another reason your viewing solution will offer scalability and adapt to what your organization requires.
You also want your viewer to integrate with current systems. The right viewer will not only integrate, it will federate with disparate systems, giving you more flexibility to work with your medical images the way that best suits your workflow. Furthermore, with seamless integration, you also have better access to all your medical studies in your system and you can gain an aggregated view of them.
The user experience must be consistent, which means the underlying architecture must be solid. For instance, viewer platforms that are based on the needs of enterprise and diagnostic are often based in HTML5 and Adobe flash. It’s architecture like this that will give all users the same experience.
At OffSite Image Management, Inc., we’ve developed a zero footprint viewer platform that can meet everything on your checklist. Contact us today and let’s talk about how our solutions will give you everything you need while saving you money.