Get Better Business Continuity Management With Cloud-Based Solutions
Business continuity management should extend to every aspect of the patient experience, especially when it comes to giving patients access to their medical images and reports. Do you need to work on your patient management flow?
With so many touch points throughout a patient visit, managing the flow of their experience can be difficult. Miscommunication is common, in fact too common in many circumstances. However, when it comes to medical imaging, this doesn’t have to be the case. Cloud-based vendors are giving providers and their patients better access to images.
The problem that many providers face is related to siloed operations. It’s the siloed mentality that keeps departments from effectively communicating with each other about patients and their data, including medical imaging. In some cases, it’s the proprietary solutions they use that keep them from communicating effectively, which is something cloud-based vendors can help them work around.
Patients are often left without any power when it comes to gaining access to their information. It might not always be the fault of healthcare professionals, but rather the systems they use to archive and access medial data, including medical imaging. Again, silos often are the problem that keeps data from freely changing hands.
One department that really needs better business continuity management access is the emergency department. It’s a fast-paced area of healthcare that is intensive in nature and requires special attention when it comes to workflow and data management. What is required is a better communication system – one that allows better access to data, improved ways of sharing, and improved methods of story data.
A cloud-based system of archiving and sharing medical imaging, as long as it employs vendor neutral archiving (VNA) architecture, can grant the kind of access that improves communication and business continuity management. VNA is the backbone to a cloud-based system that allows for more control over business continuity management.
If you’re in the market for a cloud-based system, make sure you choose a vendor that offers true VNA capabilities. True VNA is defined as a solution that will store the complete suite of DICOM SOP classes; store objects in a non-proprietary format; support inclusive DICOM query/retrieve specification; provide context management; and can handle ADT updates to the image files stored in the archive.
One of the biggest challenges hospitals face today is managing images in a multisite environment. True VNA and its focus on working in a non-proprietary nature allows for better access to images, regardless of how many sites are involved in the delivery of patient care.
OffSite Image Management, Inc., is a company that offers true VNA technology and excellent business continuity management capabilities. Instead of being shackled to expensive, proprietary solutions that negatively affect patient management of their own medical records, OffSite has developed solutions that put the patient and the provider in control of data, including medical imaging. Contact us today and find out how we can assist your facility.