A Vendor Neutral Viewer Helps You Achieve a More Mobile Workforce
Downtime. It’s a discouraging word for more than just IT professionals in the healthcare industry.
However, with the digital age comes high-tech problems that result in data being unavailable, even if it’s for a brief time. Medical images, now almost exclusively digital, are also falling victim to technical issues, perhaps related to downtime, but other times related to proprietary viewers. With a vendor neutral viewer, however, there should be no excuses for inaccessible images.
The highest functioning enterprise imaging solutions available today involve the integration of vendor neutral archiving (VNA). This allows for a full proof method for sharing and accessing medical images. When a core-imaging component, such as VNA, is part of the strategy, business continuity gets a huge boost. Furthermore, with the right cloud-based vendor, disaster recovery efforts are also vastly improved.
Not only is VNA a critical system in any enterprise imaging environment, it also acts as the central nervous system of the environment, offering support to all aspects of the organization. For organizations that are shooting for zero downtime, bringing VNA to the table is an important step.
While VNA is a smart piece of technology to have at your side, a vendor neutral viewer is equally as important if you’re going to gain a more mobile workforce. There is so much discussion right now about VNA that it is important to remind people that your vendor neutral viewer deserves the same respect so that it can align more seamlessly with your imaging solutions.
You need to partner with a vendor that can deliver a neutral viewing solution that fits your entire enterprise. With a neutral viewer, or as some refer to it – universal viewer, you can bring together a variety of information types regarding your patients. This data can then be viewed in one place. Thanks to the scalability of viewing technology, any type of medical content can be displayed. From DICOM to non-DICOM images to unstructured data, all of it is viewable.
Because you invest in a universal viewer doesn’t mean you have to take a loss on your current viewers. For instance, if you do 3-D rendering, you’ll need to keep that technology. Your cardiac computed tomography equipment can also stay put due to the more intricate tasks assigned to it.
The benefit to your organization will be quickly apparent. You’ll streamline your processes and be able to provide better overall care for your patients. Furthermore, you can also find cost savings with a vendor neutral viewer. You no longer have to jump to a different station when you want to see a DICOM image or vice versa.
When you partner with OffSite Image Management, Inc., you have a number of image management solutions at your fingertips, including vendor neutral viewing capabilities. Let’s talk about how our solutions will boost your patient care and lower your costs.