One of the major challenges in the transformation of health care is managing medical images - massive amounts of data that by law have to be preserved over a long period of time. According to data presented by our partner Carestream Health, only a fraction of the total cost is associated with hardware and software. During the last several years we noticed a trend towards outsourcing of the management component of medical image archiving.
Our partner Carestream Health, based on a number of Sun technologies and services, has developed a comprehensive offer for managed services in eHealth, with a focus on medical image archiving. Medical imaging is a good topic to discuss because it is a big ticket item- Modalities are expensive, so sharing modalities and integrating results across multiple modalities bears great ROI potential.
Not only does it save cost to archive images from multiple modalities into a managed service "cloud" with specified response and availability times, it usually also improves to overall service over a period of time. It becomes for example much easier to share medical images within a health information exchange (HIE or RHIO) if images can be pulled from a central service. Reducing cost by avoinding redunant imaging procedures is a great value proposition for HIE, as discussed in this blog numerous times.
Please listen to a recent Webinar produced by Carestream Health and the Sun Healthcare team by clicking here.
This webinar is part of a series of webinars with which we provide more in depth information about our solution focus together with our partners. Upcoming webinars cover Medical Imaging for Siemens PACS customers and solutions for consumer driven health, focussed on payers and health plans. You can register for those seminars and listen live or to the recording.
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