Atchison Hospital in Rural Kansas Says Current Patient Data Archiving System “Reached Its Limits”
Like many rural hospitals, the team at Atchison Hospital, Kansas, knows there’s a lot to lose if problems with existing overburdened patient data systems aren’t solved – such as the loss of reimbursements from Meaningful Use standards, loss of patients or staff to other facilities, and serious impacts on patient care. Instead, they’re moving toward […]
Best Health Information Exchange: Where do You Fit in?
By now everyone involved with healthcare has heard about or been touched in some way by health information exchange (HIE). By the middle of 2013, about half of all physicians in the U.S. were actively using an electronic health records system. The question is, are they using the best health information exchange available? The best […]
Healthcare Enterprise and VNA: Starts with Strategy
Healthcare providers across the nation are looking at ways they can establish a better and more secure healthcare enterprise. The ones that are succeeding are doing it with vendor neutral archiving (VNA). To get started, you have to have a strategy. Your first thought should be on how you can get ready to migrate your […]
What You Need to Know About Archiving Structured Data (HL7)
The importance of sharing information in the healthcare industry is such that Health Level 7 (HL7), a conglomeration of healthcare professionals in 55 countries, has been created to help establish the standard format for exchanging data. Archiving structured data (HL7) is a priority. Archive refers to a long-term data storage subsystem, which is increasingly important […]
Missouri Rural Hospital Follows National Trend for Quicker Information Sharing and Diagnosis through Vendor-Neutral Solutions and Cloud Based PACS Solutions
(Unionville, Mo – July 9, 2013) It’s a scene administrator’s and patients won’t see much at rural hospitals and clinics anymore: doctors holding large x-ray films up to the light to review them, then packaging them up as-is or by CD format to send to other centers. Instead, many rural healthcare facilities are implementing cloud […]
A Scary Story About Hospital Data Loss
If you are like anyone else associated with the healthcare industry, you shudder every time you see news about a hospital losing patient files. Hospital data loss is a very real problem that every healthcare facility faces. Are you doing everything you can to prevent these losses? Late last year, hospital data loss was reported […]
Surprising Predictions About Cloud Backup Services for Radiology
What Cloud Backup Services Can do For You Cloud computing is growing at a rate that has industry experts saying it will be a $6.79 billion industry in 2018. That represents an annual compound growth rate of more than 21 percent. What is your IT team doing to join in with cloud backup services. Have […]
Kansas Health Image Exchange Announces Open Enrollment; Virtual CD from Offsite Image Solves Problems with Unreadable Patient Images, Delayed Diagnosis
Modern healthcare providers are struggling to manage the exponential growth and increased complexity of digital patient information, often referred to as “Big Data,” across different organizations, applications, and data silos. To answer this problem, Offsite Image Management Inc. uses its vendor neutral archiving (VNA) technology to send and accept data, regardless of which image management […]
Vendor Neutral Archiving: Learning from a Colorado Success Story
The exchange of information through the electronic health records (EHR) process doesn’t have to be a nightmare. A Colorado critical access hospital proved that recently when it connected with its EHR system to a health information exchange (HIE) called the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, or CORHIO. Estes Park Medical Center, the first of its […]
What Mayo Clinic Does With DICOM Storage…and What it Means to Patients
The Mayo Clinic is not short on respect in the medical community and it is extending it’s highly regarded reputation with a first-of-a-kind computerized tracking system that will replace current systems that are too time-consuming in their manual processes. The imaging exam tracking system at Mayo offers more consistency and safety for the patient due […]