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Interoperability:
A fundamental necessity for adapting to
healthcare’s next generation
With the quick and constant evolution of healthcare,
interoperability is no longer primarily in the IT domain.
Today, leaders throughout a given enterprise must
embrace interoperability as essential to ensuring continued
viability. Read More
Tear Down Walls that Block Information Exchange
David Blumenthal, MD, who leads the government's effort to
transform the nation's healthcare system from paper to digital, is urging the
industry to break down barriers to health data exchange. Read More
Turf Protection, Commoditization and Interoperability
One solution for both challenges. Read More
Subspecialty Expertise and Workflow
A strategy to thrive in an era of Healthcare reform. Read More
Image Enabled EMRs—Present Challenges, Future Hopes
With the national push toward EMR adoption being urged by the financial incentives of the HITECH Act and the mindset that “now is the time,” healthcare executives, physicians, clinicians, IT leaders and IT vendors are scrambling to define the ideal method of incorporating medical images, most often native to PACS, into the EMR while improving interoperability among departments and without creating additional storage burdens. Read More
Taming the Interoperability Beast
Interoperability—making disparate information systems communicate with each other— represents a tremendous undertaking for every 21st century healthcare provider. At the same time,
it is a business essential. Who’s got the right strategy? Check out some options.
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Profitable Women’s Imaging through Increased Efficiency
An educational piece specificallyaddressing the large set of medical facilities impacted by mammography, the extended influence of those services on their enterprise, and how MEDxConnect resolves many of those challenges. Read More
Hospital EMRs Improve with Interoperability
Connecting disparate systems creates efficiencies. Read More
Solving Disparate Systems
Inefficiencies
Advanced Radiology Consultants (ARC) in Park Ridge,
IL, was challenged by a critical lack of access to information
throughout the enterprise. Specifically, its
disparate systems were unable to talk to one another
and resolve key workflow challenges. Read More
Management, bandwidth, workflow fuel good operations
Administrators must know their systems thoroughly and observe three basic
guideposts to keep them humming along problem-free.
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Tapping into Open Systems and Interoperability to Connect Disparate IT Systems
The healthcare enterprise houses scores of disparate clinical IT systems. A precious few systems talk to each other, but
many others don’t communicate readily. Connecting disparate IT systems can streamline clinical workflow and improve
patient care. But how? Read More
Exploring Inter-options
Interoperability issues have your radiologists fixated on technology rather than
treatment? These tips from a been-there, tried-that IT director can boost connectivity
and staff productivity. Read More
Clinical information access impacts radiology
interpretation
The majority of radiologists at eight academic
medical centers are dissatisfied with their
ability to access clinical patient information at
the time of interpretation, according to results
from a report published online before print in
the Journal of Digital Imaging. Read More
Connecting the
IT Disconnect
Streamlining operational processes
The DRA and the current economic downturn are a
one-two punch that has left many imaging facilities
struggling for solutions to the age-old question of how
to control or reduce costs without sacrificing care. Read More
Healthcare IT saves lives, cuts costs, study finds
Healthcare information technology produces tangible benefits in terms of fewer patient complications, lower mortality rates, and lower
costs, according to a new study published this week by researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Read More
Too Many Unnecessary CT and MRI Scans
The number of CT scans per patient has doubled over the last 10 years, while the number of MRI scans has tripled, according to a
recent study in the journal Health Affairs.
No wonder a growing chorus of critics wonder if all of these expensive medical tests are necessary. Read More
True Integration
Greater interoperability is central to reaching winning outcomes for patients, practitioners and hospital administrators. Read More
The Business Continuity Plan: Creating a Secure Imaging Infrastructure
As imaging departments become increasingly digital, many are using different components of data storage, protection, migration and archiving to fit different pieces of the business continuity puzzle together to provide a seamless and continual flow of images and data across the enterprise while providing secure backups without impacting patient care. Having a plan is the first step. Read More
ISV/ Partner Focus – Compressus
Welcome to the 20th HealthPath Flash. This month’s issue features Compressus and the MEDxConnect™ solution in the ISV/Partner Focus section. Read More
‘Enterprise’ is the new battle cry in radiology workflow.
More so than in previous years, the imaging informatics arena is less dominated by PACS, and more by
new advanced visualization and analytics solutions such as 3D/4D imaging, CAD and multimodality image
fusion. Read More
Radiologists feel under increasing threat from other healthcare professionals, both at home and from overseas. That seems to be the overriding conclusion of a survey we conducted of DI Europe's Editorial Advisory Board members during February and March. Read More
By leveraging IT and business automation, medical teams can have real-time visibility into any critical information and changes related to a patient's health. [Courtesy of Advance Health Information Executive Magazines] Read More
Semantic interoperability allows us to understand and use information across various domains, enterprises and computer systems. [Courtesy of Advance Health Information Executive Magazines] Read More
Eric Schmidt gives the keynote speech at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference in Orlando, on February 28, 2008. View Video
Compressus showcased several MEDxConnect product line expansions during the 2008 Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting Seattle. Read More
True interoperability drives efficiency and patient safety
The adage goes: Necessity is the mother of invention. In radiology, a more apt sentiment might be: Necessity—and adversity—is the mother of transformation. Read More
Modern RIS revenue management modules can give operators powerful reporting tools that reveal detailed data, from the disposable costs of an exam to what exams are being ordered most, and by which referring physicians. They also can identify groups of CPT codes that are having denial problems with a single carrier—or all of them. Read More
Interoperability seems to be the buzz word in healthcare IT these days. Why is the pressure to achieve interoperability so prevalent now when people have been talking about connecting systems for years? Read More
Ramin Khorasani, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, discussed critical test results and the challenges of creating an optimized infrastructure so those results are communicated efficiently during a session Wednesday morning at the 93rd annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Read More
Enterprise systems integration will become increasingly vital to the successful management of patient care and the bottom line. Read More
Washington, DC-based Compressus Inc's answers to PACS challenges are MEDxConnect Enterprise Integration software solutions, offering seamless connectivity and interoperability between PACS, HIS, RIS, and their related information systems. The system includes the Virtual Worklist, the Systems Management Dashboard (SMD), and the standards-based Medical Message Mediator (M3), which is the centerpiece. Read More
The next incarnation of PACS must address the shortcomings of current PACS offerings, as well as beat the interoperability bugaboo. Read More
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