More Than Meets the Eye With Vendor Neutral Viewers
Vendor neutral archiving technology has helped many radiologists through the problems they endured for years regarding connectivity to disparate systems, among many other things. Now vendor neutral viewers with a zero footprint are shaking up the industry.
Many organizations are still in the midst of adopting vendor neutral technology and many more are finding out about the advantages, perhaps one of the biggest being cost. The increased access to data, including medical images, provided by vendor neutral archiving is also important to professionals in healthcare.
The medical imaging management market is large, and it’s expected to top $6 billion in the next four years. Vendors are looking to get a leg up on the market by enhancing their offerings, which means vendor neutral viewers are going to be prevalent solutions with many vendors, especially those with a focus on cloud-based solutions.
A vendor neutral viewer helps to bring together many types of patient information, but for radiologists, better access to imaging is most important. Whether it’s DICOM or non-DICOM, the right vendor will offer a solution that allows you to see whatever type of image file you need to see, and it won’t matter what type of viewer you’re working from.
Even your unstructured data will be available for use on a vendor neutral viewer. All the content you have, regardless of which department it comes from, becomes a viable piece of data on whichever viewing apparatus you happen to be using. Endoscopy, ophthalmology, cardiology, gynecology – any department’s images can be viewed with a VNA viewer.
There will probably always be a need for specialty workstations, and the vendor neutral viewer solution won’t replace that. For instance, 3D rendering is something that requires a specialty viewer, as do cardiac computed tomography. The universal viewer, however, will work with a wide spectrum of users, from nurses to specialists – even patients who want to be more involved in their healthcare.
Streamlining the clinical process is also an excellent perk of using a vendor neutral viewer. This is also helping users to reduce costs associated with medical imaging because there are fewer pieces of hardware required to view all the different types of image files that a doctor or specialist is required to see on any given workday.
VNA technology will continue to improve the way healthcare professionals and patients gain access to their medical imaging, but makes sure you partner with the right vendor.
OffSite Image Management, Inc., is the cloud-based vendor offering solutions, including vendor neutral viewer technology, that puts your images in your hands, literally (if you’re using a smartphone or tablet computer). Contact us today and find out how we’re the organization that will reduce your costs while improving your workflow.