Turning your paper documents into a digital piece of information in your PACS is something you’re not alone in doing. Industry-wide, healthcare professionals are experiencing the same ups and downs when it comes to making the conversion. Medical images, which are large and numerous, provide a particularly awesome challenge for many hospitals and clinics.
Every facility is different, which means everyone faces unique challenges. However, the storage and sharing problems are probably the common issues that almost everyone says they’re currently trying to tackle. Some have approached the issue by purchasing equipment that allows them to scan paper documents that go directly into the archiving system. Others can take documents on a computer and “print” them to the archiving system directly without any scanning involved.
Getting medical images into a PACS or into DICOM storage takes a similar process.
Companies are coming out with solutions, such as the DICOM Izer from a company called Etiam, which is built for medical image and video transferring. Sorna Corporation has developed an image and document converter of its own that promises to reduce the cost of transferring to DICOM as well as improves productivity.
DICOM storage and DICOM exchange of radiological data is an extremely important IT issue facing many healthcare providers today. Medical professionals work in different facilities on a variety of different systems, which can create a communication nightmare when it comes time to share images between facilities. Not many Health Image Exchange (HIE) providers can offer a format that allows the kind of communication necessary for across the board sharing of medical images.
Many facilities face challenges with their PACS and DICOM exchange. Migrations are a particular challenge when new platforms are brought in. However, you know that there are specific advantages to establishing an HIE, including technology that allows you to not only share data, but also store it in the cloud. When it’s stored in the cloud, there are very few sharing issues to be had, regardless of your browser.
With an HIE, you can make any number of queries that help you sort through the thousands of gigabytes of information you have stored away. You’ll find that you’ll experience decreased costs, better patient treatment outcome and increased patient satisfaction.
OffSite Image Management, Inc., uses the Honeycomb to offer one of the best HIE experiences on the market. Your disparate digital silos are now available across the entire organization with the Honeycomb. Essentially, Honeycomb acts as a software layer that makes the important connections that most other solutions fail to achieve.
You want a quick and easy way to share your medical images, but you don’t want to sacrifice security. Honeycomb takes this into account and provides users with a safe and secure platform. Contact OffSite today and get started with an HIE platform that works wonders for those who have adopted it.