President John F. Kennedy said, “change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” His thoughts on change can be applied to any aspect of life, including business. Given the frequent technological changes that affect the radiology industry, change is not only tolerated, it’s expected. Radiologists need to manage change and there are companies working to assist them in this endeavor.
Imaging technology is changing along with the entire healthcare industry at a rapid pace. In order to maintain an effective response to the new challenges that the industry faces, radiologists are fighting to stay ahead of the curve. Healthcare reforms demand a certain amount of responsiveness from radiologists. Honeycomb exchange, a software layer that
connects disparate digital silos, works to assist radiologists and others in the healthcare industry store and share their medical imaging in a way that lives up to the expectations set forth in healthcare reforms.
OffSite Image Management professionals built the Honeycomb exchange to assist healthcare workers in improving their ability to provide better patient care. Hospital and rural clinics rely on the stability and efficiency that Honeycomb provides them. For hospitals and rural clinics that are still using CDs and film to share patient imaging information, the Honeycomb steps up to bring them into the cutting edge of healthcare IT.
Another positive aspect that these practices will find is in cost effectiveness. The cumbersome CD burning hardware is clunky and often spits out unreadable CDs. Worse yet, these CDs take up storage space in the medical practice and pose a HIPPA risk when they are misplaced or improperly accessed. Honeycomb erases all those worries because it makes the CD burner obsolete.
Instead of mailing CDs to the doctors and specialists, these medical professionals can view the images through Honeycomb on a secure site. It couldn’t come at a better time, either. Digital imaging has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, which has really pushed the need for a DICOM exchange. Using Honeycomb as a solution, medical professionals are able to safely share their images faster across disparate networks than they’ve ever experienced with other solutions.
As the Baby Boomers reach their golden years, the need for medical imaging has become far more in demand than ever before. This generation might have looked to the guidance of only one doctor in their youth, but today they are seeing multiple specialists for their medical needs, which means these specialists need better access to patient data. The Honeycomb exchange provides the access they need.
Other solutions try and fail to deliver the same consistent access to data that Honeycomb offers. The robust health image exchange provided by Honeycomb assists radiologists and doctors in ridding themselves of the manual processes and replaces them with automation that makes their jobs easier. It also improves their ability to do their jobs. OffSite’s focus on vendor neutral archiving, combined with the powerful Honeycomb, helps radiologists not only deal with change – it helps them to excel.