Provide Quality Continuity of Care With Cloud PACS
Healthcare providers are increasingly focused on having uninterrupted access to their medical images. IT
departments across the land are tasked with 100 percent uptime, but it hasn’t always been that way. It wasn’t that long ago that IT staff could take down the system for a few hours and carry out their maintenance procedures, and it was considered normal. That doesn’t work in today’s environment and Cloud PACS can help you make sure your services are not interrupted.
CIOs from systems big and small are focused on supporting a multitude of proprietary applications where downtime is not an option. In fact, downtime directly correlates to negatively impacting the way providers care for their patients.
Meaningful Use requirements are established to protect patients and ensure their quality of care is high. The situation produces several implications for radiology departments as they are challenged to live up to the electronic medical records requirements in Stage II and III. For instance, hospital IT departments are scrambling to hit those deadlines while not compromising their workflow or budgets in both technology and labor. For the rural provider, the barriers are much more difficult to overcome.
While cost savings are important, so too is security. When cloud-based technology was first introduced, many healthcare officials shied away from it due to security concerns. However, vendors have taken great pains to make sure their solutions aren’t compromised, and the healthcare industry is taking notice.
What providers are looking for today in their archiving partners is one that can deliver security expertise as well as tools that provide more functionality in accessing medical images, regardless of what department or disparate facility they originate.
Choosing an offsite image management provider can help IT staff focus on issues at their facility and leave the image management component to professionals outside the facility. This not only frees up more time for IT professionals to carry out their day-to-day tasks, it also enhances the level of patient care medical professionals are able to deliver.
Adding Cloud PACS to your operation can actually reduce the risks involved with security. Speed is always an issue, and it’s no different with cloud-based solutions. Providers want to know that their data, be it HL7 or images, is accessible at all times. Unfortunately, some vendors offer a one-size-fits-all solution that out prices the smaller providers, especially those in the rural areas that constantly fight budget constraints.
OffSite Image Management, Inc. has developed a solution that allows providers to pay for only what they use. It’s an approach that is unique to the industry and one that OffSite founders insist upon as they have worked extensively throughout their careers in rural radiology departments. To get more information about how OffSite can improve the way you archive, access and share your medical images with Cloud PACS, contact us today.